KiDS FiRST Diabetes Second

KiDS FiRST Diabetes Second
Author: Leighann Calentine
Publisher: Spry Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1938170059

2013 ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD WINNER Raising a child is a difficult job. Raising a child with a chronic illness such as diabetes can be a difficult job with a side order of special challenges. Leighann Calentine’s D-Mom Blog is an invaluable resource for parents and caregivers of children with diabetes. Leighann shares her family’s experiences with her daughter’s type 1 diabetes in a forum that is intimate, informative, and inspirational. In a style both practical and affirming, Kids First, Diabetes Second presents Leighann’s advice to help parents and caregivers enable children with diabetes to thrive. Learn how to automate tasks, navigate challenges, celebrate achievements, establish a support group, relieve stress, and avoid being consumed by management of the condition, while focusing on what’s most important: raising a happy, healthy child.

Caring for Diabetes in Children and Adolescents

Caring for Diabetes in Children and Adolescents
Author: Geoffery Richard Ambler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2010
Genre: Diabetes in adolescence
ISBN: 9780957944336

"Caring for diabetes in children and adolescents is a challenging task for families and their health professionals. Education and knowledge are essential elements in being able to look after your child’s diabetes from day to day and in special situations. This resource aims to provide this information for you. It will help you revise and build on your knowledge from your diabetes education and also serve as a ready reference when new situations arise."--Publisher's website.

Taking Diabetes to School

Taking Diabetes to School
Author: Kim Gosselin
Publisher: Jayjo Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Diabetes
ISBN: 9781891383281

Uses a simple story about a young boy at school to present information about diabetes. A young boy describes what it is like to have diabetes, how it makes hiim feel, and how it can be treated and controlled.

Sugar Surfing

Sugar Surfing
Author: Stephen W. Ponder
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-05-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996253901

Think Like a Pancreas

Think Like a Pancreas
Author: Gary Scheiner
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0738246697

The all-in-one, comprehensive resource for the millions of people with diabetes who use insulin, revised and updated Few diabetes books focus specifically on the day-to-day issues facing people who use insulin. Diabetes educator Gary Scheiner provides the tools to "think like a pancreas" -- to successfully master the art and science of matching insulin to the body's ever-changing needs. Comprehensive, free of medical jargon, and packed with useful information not readily available elsewhere, such as: day-to-day blood glucose control and monitoring designing an insulin program to best match your lifestyle up-to date medication and technology new insulin formulations and combinations and more With detailed information on new medications and technologies -- both apps and devices -- surrounding insulin, as well as new injection devices, and dietary recommendations, Think Like a Pancreas is the insulin users go-to guide.

Balancing Diabetes

Balancing Diabetes
Author: Kerri Sparling
Publisher: Spry Publishing
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1938170385

When a person receives a diagnosis of diabetes, he or she starts a process of adjusting and making sense of the new normal living with a chronic disease. A large part of that adjustment is figuring out how to balance diabetes with all the intricacies of a life outside of diabetes care. In Balancing Diabetes, diabetes online community blogger Kerri Sparling compiles strategies used by people with diabetes and their caregivers to bring that elusive balance into their lives. Whether adult or child, type 1 or type 2, spouse or caregiver, male or female, people in the diabetes world will find themselves in this book and be inspired by the commonality of that continuing search for balance.

Diabetes Through the Looking Glass

Diabetes Through the Looking Glass
Author:
Publisher: Class Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Children
ISBN: 1859592090

The author combines her own experience growing up with diabetes and interviews with children and adults to provide an insight into what it feels like to grow up with diabetes. It covers the different phases of diagnosis and acceptance, hypos, blood tests and injections, school and teenage years, life beyond home.

Diabetes Burnout

Diabetes Burnout
Author: William Polonsky
Publisher: American Diabetes Association
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1999-12-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1580400337

Living with diabetes is hard. It's easy to get discouraged, frustrated, and burned out. Here's an author that understands the emotional rollercoaster and gives you the tools you need to keep from being overwhelmed, addressing such issues as dealing with friends and family, and how you can better handle the stress for better health. Written with compassion and a sprinkle of humor.

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions
Author: Kate Lorig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2000
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780923521530

Drawing on input from people with long-term ailments, this book points the way to achieving the best possible life under the circumstances.