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Diabetes in Children and Teens

Children & Teens Home: Children | Teens | Type 2 Diabetes

Children and Teens with Diabetes

Raising children is challenging under the best of circumstances. When a child has a chronic disease such as diabetes, the challenges become even greater. Fortunately today, advances in treatment and monitoring of blood glucose levels have made diabetes far less difficult to deal with than it used to be. Still, it is a serious condition with potentially critical complications and requires lifelong monitoring and treatment.

On this site we offer information for parents and other caregivers as well as teachers, coaches, and others who will interact with children and teenagers who have diabetes. We cover these aspects:

  • The child with diabetes - with emphasis on the importance of monitoring blood glucose levels regularly and establishing healthy eating and exercise habits in your child, and answers to your questions about school and family issues.
  • Type 2 diabetes in children and teenagers - this is a recent phenomenon that is not yet fully understood.
  • The teenager with diabetes - adolescence brings its own special challenges to any family, and diabetes adds another layer to these trying years.

Diabetes in Children And Teens – At a Glance

Type 1 diabetes in children and teenagers

  Children
  • Introduction to type 1 diabetes
  • Treatment: Insulin
  • Eating
  • Exercise and sports
  • Emotional well-being
  • Complications
  • School
  • Family issues
  • Experts' Advice to Parents
  •   Teenagers
  • Challenges
  • Communication
  • Setting priorities
  • Time for a pump?
  • Driving, alcohol, smoking and drugs
  • Pregnancy/preconception planning
  • Experts' Advice to Parents
  • Type 2 diabetes in children and teenagers

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    As the world’s top supplier of commercial blood pressure monitors and health management systems, Lifeclinic is committed to helping to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals across the globe. Active monitoring of blood pressure, heart rate, weight, body fat, body mass index (BMI) and blood oxygen levels when combined with proper diet, nutrition and physical fitness can help ensure a longer, more healthy lifestyle.

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