A first book for understanding diabetes
Subtitle: a companion book to "Understanding diabetes"
By: H. Peter Chase, M.D. and David M. Maahs, M.D., Ph.D.
Contributors: Maahs, David M., joint author; Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes; Children's Diabetes Foundation at Denver
Edition: Thirteenth edition
Series: Understanding diabetes - Pink Panther (TM)
Publisher: Children's Diabetes Foundation at Denver, Colorado
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Denver, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780983265047
Subjects: Diabetes in children; Popular works; Diabetes; Handbooks, manuals; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; Therapy; Patient Education as Topic; Diabetic Diet
Notes: "This book is a synopsis of the larger book, Understanding Diabetes. It provides a quick summary of each of the 28 chapters. It may be easier to begin learning from this book until people are ready to read the larger book" -- Page i.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. The importance of education in diabetes; title: Ch. 2. What is diabetes?; title: Ch. 3. Type 1 diabetes; title: Ch. 4. Type 2 diabetes; title: Ch. 5. Checking ketones; title: Ch. 6. Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia or insulin reaction); title: Ch. 7. Blood sugar (glucose) monitoring); title: Ch. 8. Insulin : types and activity; title: Ch. 9. Drawing up insulin and giving injections; title: Ch. 10. Feelings/adjustment at diabetes onset; title: Ch. 11. Normal nutrition; title: Ch. 12. Food management and diabetes; title: Ch. 13. Exercise and diabetes; title: Ch. 14. Monitoring diabetes control; title: Ch. 15. Ketones and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA); title: Ch. 16. Sick day/surgery management; title: Ch. 17. Family concerns; title: Ch. 18. Care of children at different ages; title: Ch. 19. Diabetes management in the toddler/preschooler; title: Ch. 20. Special challenges of the teen years; title: Ch. 21. Outpatient management, education, support groups and standards of care; title: Ch. 22. Adjusting the insulin dosages; title: Ch. 23. Long-term complications of diabetes; title: Ch. 24. Associated autoimmune conditions of Type 1 diabetes; title: Ch. 25. The school or work and diabetes; title: Ch. 26. Child-sitters, grandparents and diabetes; title: Ch. 27. Vacations and camp; title: Ch. 28. Insulin pumps; title: Ch. 29. Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM); title: Ch. 30. The "bionic" pancreas; title: Ch. 31. Pregnancy and diabetes; title: Ch. 32. Research and diabetes.