Diabetes Care
for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers:
A Reassuring Guide
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With
your child's diagnosis of diabetes, you might be
feeling grief, sadness, or fear. Everything you need
to learn to take care of your child's diabetes, in
addition to normal parenting issues, can seem
overwhelming. You might even worry that you may do
something wrong to harm your child.
This
reassuring guide will help you find a balance between
good diabetes management and normal life. It explains
how diabetes impacts your child's growth and
development, and gives you plenty of ideas for dealing
with routine diabetes care. The first book of its
kind, it provides tips on:
- Fitting
diabetes demand into real-life schedules
- Making
injections easier
- Preventing,
detecting, and treating hypoglycemia
- Dealing
with food issues
- Monitoring
blood glucose
- Working
with your child's day care or preschool
- Meeting
the physical, mental, and emotional needs of your
child
- Explaining
diabetes to brothers and sisters
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This unique guide
also includes experiences and advice from other parents of
children with diabetes and amusing Family Circus cartoons.
Diabetes
Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: A Reassuring
Guide
ISBN 0471346764 John Wiley & Sons, 1999
Item #001
Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers $15.95
Raising a
Child With Diabetes
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Two
well-respected diabetes educators join the nation's
leading authority on diabetes to help parents and
families care for children with diabetes. This book
will reassure you that having diabetes doesn't mean
your child has to sit on the sidelines. The latest
advances in diabetes are found here. Gone are the
bland diets and excuses to miss out on gym. There are
lots of problem solving examples and easy-to-read
tables. You'll learn how to help your child:
- Adjust
insulin to allow for foods kids like to eat
- Have
a busy schedule and still feel healthy and strong
- Negotiate
the twists and turns of being
"different"
- Accept
the physical and emotional challenges life has to
offer
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Few books so
skillfully present the amount of information found here. It
will be your helpful companion through periods of picky
eating, sick days, and times when your child is reluctant to do
a blood test or take an injection.
Raising A
Child With Diabetes
ISBN 0-945448-48-1 American Diabetes Association, 2000.
Item
#009
Raising A Child With Diabetes $16.95
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