[PDF] The Challenge Of Childhood Diabetes eBook

Author : Laura Plunkett
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2006-07
Category : Diabetes in children
ISBN : 0595386253

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This inspiring account of the impact of diabetes on a multigenerational family includes successful strategies for dealing with the emotional, nutritional, and practical issues of caretaking. When seven-year-old Danny was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, his mother, Laura Plunkett, a psychotherapist with a private practice in Marblehead, MA, desperately searched for ways to cope with his life-threatening disease. Struggling to manage her anxiety over wildly fluctuating blood sugar numbers, to transform her reluctant family's diet, and to educate friends and teachers, she eventually finds unique ways to help Danny attain excellent blood sugar control and a new and comfortable sense of normal. To help others weather such shocking new circumstances, Laura and her extended family share their three-year journey from crisis to confidence with humor and warmth. An intimate look at issues of nutrition, exercise, sibling rivalry, medical care, and holistic medicine, The Challenge of Childhood Diabetes is the friend, coach, and consultant that the family of every newly-diagnosed child will turn to on a daily basis. Written with her mother, Linda Weltner, former "Ever So Humble" columnist for The Boston Globe, the book includes a Survival Guide for those seeking support and a new emotional perspective. The Challenge of Childhood Diabetes is insightful and compassionate, filling the void between doctors' visits with the comforting voice of a loving and experienced caretaker. It's an invaluable resource for extended family, friends, teachers, neighbors, and medical professionals. Visit www.challengeofdiabetes.com for more information. "This book is a gem. It will most assuredly help patients, their family members and their friends as they meet the many challenges ahead, including the compelling emotional issues largely ignored in the doctor's office." -Will Cross, the first person with Type 1 diabetes to reach the summits of the seven highest continental mountain peaks, including Mt. Everest.

Author : Moira McCarthy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1605502715

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Parents of children who have been diagnosed with diabetes are faced with an overwhelming, and sometimes frightening, amount of information. The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes helps readers to cope with the challenges of helping their children live happy, healthy lives while controlling the disease. Parents of children who have been diagnosed with diabetes are faced with an overwhelming, and sometimes frightening, amount of information. The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes helps readers to cope with the challenges of helping their children live happy, healthy lives while controlling the disease. This reassuring, easy-to-use guide features advice on: -Adjusting to life with diabetes -Helping children take control of their health -Monitoring diet and insulin levels -Handling emergencies -Finding support for children and parents

Author : Thomas Bergman
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Pub
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836807387

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Describes the medical problems and daily routine of a ten-year-old Swedish boy with diabetes and discusses the two main types of this chronic disease.

Author : Neal Halfon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3319471430

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. ​This handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health. It presents LCHD as an innovative field with a sound theoretical framework for understanding wellness and disease from a lifespan perspective, replacing previous medical, biopsychosocial, and early genomic models of health. Interdisciplinary chapters discuss major health concerns (diabetes, obesity), important less-studied conditions (hearing, kidney health), and large-scale issues (nutrition, adversity) from a lifespan viewpoint. In addition, chapters address methodological approaches and challenges by analyzing existing measures, studies, and surveys. The book concludes with the editors’ research agenda that proposes priorities for future LCHD research and its application to health care practice and health policy. Topics featured in the Handbook include: The prenatal period and its effect on child obesity and metabolic outcomes. Pregnancy complications and their effect on women’s cardiovascular health. A multi-level approach for obesity prevention in children. Application of the LCHD framework to autism spectrum disorder. Socioeconomic disadvantage and its influence on health development across the lifespan. The importance of nutrition to optimal health development across the lifespan. The Handbook of Life Course Health Development is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians/professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology/science; maternal and child health; social work; health economics; educational policy and politics; and medical law as well as many interrelated subdisciplines in psychology, medicine, public health, mental health, education, social welfare, economics, sociology, and law.

Author : Elizabeth S. Platt
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1449671365

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An estimated 1 in 600 children in the US develops Type 1 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes in kids. A diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes can be distressing and confusing for parents and caregivers, but now there is expert help. 100 Questions & Answers About Your Child’s Type 1 Diabetes provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions about the disease. This reader-friendly guide is an invaluable resource for learning how to manage the medical, emotional, and practical daily challenges of raising a child with Type 1 diabetes.

Author : Jeff Hitchcock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1510705821

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Approximately 208,000 Americans under age twenty have diagnosed diabetes, and the number is growing at an alarming rate. From 2001 to 2009, the number of American children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes rose 23 percent; for type 2 diabetes it rose 21 percent. While scientists and government organizations assess the reasons for the increase, parents are left to deal with its day-to-day ramifications, and to guide their children through the discovery and treatment process. Jeff Hitchcock, the editor of this volume, was in desperate need of advice for how to best support his young daughter after her diagnosis. When he searched for support, he was shocked by how little information existed. So he started his own support group, Children with Diabetes. And now, more than twenty years later, Children with Diabetes has answered more than twenty thousand questions from other parents, gets more than twenty thousand daily hits on its website, and has a highly respected Diabetes Team, a wealth of on-call experts for parents in need of support. In this volume, Jeff has collected a whopping 101 tips for parents. The tips answer questions such as: What does the diagnosis mean? How do I get help? Should I change my child’s eating habits? What does insulin mean, and how is it used? And what should I tell my child’s teacher? For ease of reference, they’re categorized, so answers can quickly and easily be found. They’re also provided in simple, jargon-free, and easy-to-understand language.

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Publisher : Lantern Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2002-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781590560372

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The author describes his younger brother's experiences finding out that he had diabetes and learning to live with this condition.

Author : Jean Roemer
Publisher : American Diabetes Association
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1580403913

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The American Diabetes Association Guide to Raising a Child with Diabetes, 3rd edition features the latest advances in diabetes care to help your child have a healthy active childhood. Full of problem-solving examples and easy-to-use tables, you will learn how: To adjust insulin to allow for the foods kids love to eatTo help the child with type 2 diabetesTo plan meals that are nutritious and balancedTo play sports and games safelyTo handle sick daysYour child can maintain a busy schedule and still feel healthy and strongTo negotiate the twists and turns of being "different"To accept the physical and emotional challenges that life has to offerAnd much more