Learn how to manage Type 1 diabetes for a healthier and happier life!
Whether you have been living with type 1 diabetes for some time, or you have just discovered that your child is diabetic, there's a lot you need to know about the new developments in treating, controlling, and living with this disease. Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies, explains everything you need to know and do to make living with type 1 diabetes easier and healthier.
This reassuring, plain-English guide helps you understand and mange the disease with tips on working with your doctor, administering insulin, developing a diet an exercise plan, and coping with illness and travel. You'll find out about the latest technologies of blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, and get a handle on everything you need to do to keep yourself or your child healthy, active, and feeling good. Discover how to:
* Overcome short-term complications
* Eat a diabetes-friendly diet
* Use exercise to help control type 1 diabetes
* Handle school, work, and other activities
* Help your child maintain a high quality of life
* Prevent long-term complications
* Be healthier than your friends who don't have diabetes
* Deal with the emotional and psychological effects of the disease
* Choose an insulin pump for yourself or your child
* Calculate insulin dosages
Anyone can live a long, healthy, and productive life with type 1 diabetes. Small Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies delivers every drop of information you need to make sure that you or your child can do just that.
Autorentext
Alan L. Rubin, MD, is a physician in private practice and the author of the bestselling Diabetes For Dummies, Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, and Thyroid For Dummies.
Zusammenfassung
Learn how to manage Type 1 diabetes for a healthier and happier life!
Whether you have been living with type 1 diabetes for some time, or you have just discovered that your child is diabetic, there's a lot you need to know about the new developments in treating, controlling, and living with this disease. Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies, explains everything you need to know and do to make living with type 1 diabetes easier and healthier.
This reassuring, plain-English guide helps you understand and mange the disease with tips on working with your doctor, administering insulin, developing a diet an exercise plan, and coping with illness and travel. You'll find out about the latest technologies of blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, and get a handle on everything you need to do to keep yourself or your child healthy, active, and feeling good. Discover how to:
- Overcome short-term complications
- Eat a diabetes-friendly diet
- Use exercise to help control type 1 diabetes
- Handle school, work, and other activities
- Help your child maintain a high quality of life
- Prevent long-term complications
- Be healthier than your friends who don't have diabetes
- Deal with the emotional and psychological effects of the disease
- Choose an insulin pump for yourself or your child
- Calculate insulin dosages
Anyone can live a long, healthy, and productive life with type 1 diabetes. Small Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies delivers every drop of information you need to make sure that you or your child can do just that.
Inhalt
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Conventions Used in This Book 2
What You're Not to Read 3
Foolish Assumptions 3
How This Book Is Organized 4
Part I: Defining Type 1 Diabetes 4
Part II: Considering the Consequences of Type 1 Diabetes 4
Part III: Treating Type 1 Diabetes 5
Part IV: Living with Type 1 Diabetes 5
Part V: The Part of Tens 6
Part VI: Appendixes 6
Icons Used in This Book 7
Where to Go from Here 7
Part I: Defining Type 1 Diabetes 9
Chapter 1: Dealing with Type 1 Diabetes 11
Understanding What Type 1 Diabetes Is (and Isn't) 12
Handling the Physical and Emotional Consequences of Type 1 Diabetes 13
Treating Type 1 Diabetes Effectively 14
Undergoing regular testing 14
Eating wisely 15
Exercising for more control 15
Taking insulin 16
Using other medications and treatments 16
Deciding to transplant 16
Living Well with Type 1 Diabetes 17
Handling school, work, and other daily activities 17
Adjusting to sick days and travel 17
Getting through pregnancy and menopause 18
Aging with type 1 diabetes 18
Chapter 2: Recognizing Type 1 Diabetes 19
Understanding How Type 1 Diabetes Works 19
Distinguishing between controlled and uncontrolled glucose 21
Triggering type 1 diabetes 24
Checking Out the Statistics on Who Gets Type 1 Diabetes 25
Rates among different places and races 25
Rates in children versus adults 26
Rates in families with members who have type 1 diabetes 26
Making a Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes 27
Surveying the symptoms and undergoing testing 27
Gathering a group of the right doctors 28
Developing key skills after the diagnosis 29
Chapter 3: Excluding Other Types of Diabetes 31
Distinguishing Type 2 and Latent Autoimmune Diabetes from Type 1 Diabetes 31
Type 2 diabetes 32
Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA) 35
Delving into Diabetes Caused by Other Diseases and Agents 36
Considering hormone-induced causes of diabetes 36
Examining diabetes caused by destructive diseases of the pancreas 40
Discovering drugs and chemicals that may cause or worsen diabetes 42
Part II: Considering the Consequences of Type 1 Diabetes 43
Chapter 4: Overcoming Short-Term Complications 45
Managing Low Blood Glucose: Hypoglycemia 46
Determining the cause 46
Recognizing the symptoms 48
Distinguishing the severity levels of hypoglycemia 49
Understanding hypoglycemic unawareness 51
Preventing and treating hypoglycemia 52
Dealing with Very High Blood Glucose: Diabetic Ketoacidosis 55
Considering some potential causes 56
Surveying the symptoms 57
Preventing and treating diabetic ketoacidosis 58
Chapter 5: Preventing Long-Term Complications 61
Focusing on Eye Disease 62
Background retinopathy 64
Proliferative retinopathy 65
Coping with Kidney Disease 66
The effects of uncontrolled diabetes on the kidneys 67
Preventing kidney disease 69
Treating kidney disease if prevention fails 70
Knowing about Nerve Disease 71
Disorders of sensation 72
Disorders of movement (mononeuropathy) 74
Disorders of automatic (autonomic) nerves 75
Macrovascular Complications: Protecting Your Heart 76
Considering Associated Diseases 78
Hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism 78
Skin disease 80
Celiac disease 81
Chapter 6: Handling Emotional Effects 83
Coming to Terms with the Diagnosis 83
Knowing that your child is in good company 84
Encouraging po...