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When your child is diagnosed with diabetes, you have many new responsibilities. Although family life and daily routines may be more complicated, especially in the beginning, over time and with the help and support of your diabetes team you will discover that your child can have a healthy, full life in which diabetes plays an important but not all-encompassing role.
- Diabetes, your child, and you
Discovering that your young child has type 1 or type 2 diabetes can give rise to many emotions. You may feel angry, sad, upset, guilty, helpless or anxious, and you may worry whether you will be able to cope with the level of care your child will need every day.
- Children and type 2
Type 2 diabetes was once a disease that occurred primarily, if not exclusively, in adults. Today, however, the disease is increasingly appearing in adolescents and even in children
- Children and type 1
Parenting is a tough job under the best of circumstances. When your child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, you suddenly have to take on a whole new list of responsibilities and concerns.
- Teens and Diabetes
When children are diagnosed with diabetes, parents need to be very involved in learning about the condition, participating in the routines at an appropriate level and sharing management decisions.
- Healthy eating for school-age children
Tips for parents and caregivers
- Special occasions
Having diabetes shouldn’t prevent a child from having fun during special occasions. A little planning and a question or two allows kids with diabetes to participate in just about everything.
- Generation D
- A young adult’s guide to diabetes self-management