Type 1 Diabetes in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults - 5th Edition
Class Health (Verlag)
978-1-85959-350-9 (ISBN)
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The number of children with Type 1 diabetes is steadily increasing. While research continues to search for a cure, the expectation is that those afflicted should enjoy a long life. Medical research has conclusively proved that looking after your own diabetes - and keeping your blood glucose level down - is the key to avoiding the pitfalls and long-term risks.
Having diabetes means you need to make yourself better informed than the average doctor, and this remarkable book gives you all the strategies and tricks to get your blood glucose down and keep it under control. In this practical, easy-to-read book Dr Ragnar Hanas shows you step-by-step how to become an expert in your own diabetes.
By understanding your Type 1 diabetes and how to manage it, you can live a full, healthy and happy life.
Up-to-date with changes to the HbA1c standard which measures average blood glucose levels.
All the latest information on insulin therapies
Includes 39 chapters, and over 400 illustrations and cartoons
Glossary explains 172 medical terms
Stories of other people with diabetes
Summary of contents:
Topics covered range from `how your body works’ to `sweets, treats and ice-cream’ and from `insulin injection technique’ to `long-term complications’ and any number of subjects in-between:
Getting to grips with and caring for your own diabetes
Background on diabetes and your body
Blood glucose and hypoglycaemia
Insulin treatment and monitoring your diabetes
Nutrition, weight control and exercise
Smoking, alcohol, pregnancy and social issues
Travel tips
Complications
Research and new developments
Psychology and needle-phobia
Well-known people with diabetes
Dr Ragnar Hanas is Consultant Paediatrician at Uddevalla Hospital in Sweden, specialising in diabetes. He is Secretary General of the International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), and co-editor of the 2009 ISPAD Clinical Practice Guidelines.
1. Introduction
2. Getting to grips with diabetes
3. Caring for your own diabetes
4. Diabetes: some background
5. How your body works
6. High blood glucose levels
7. Regulation of blood glucose
8. Hypoglycaemia
9. Treating hypogylcaemia
10. Insulin treatment
11. Monitoring
12. The HbA1c test
13. Injection technique
14. Injection equipment
15. Adjusting insulin doses
16. Insulin pumps
17. Side effects of insulin treatment
18. Insulin requirements
19. Nutrition
20. Sweeteners
21. Sweets, treats and ice cream
22. Weight control
23. Eating disorders
24. Physical exercise
25. Stress
26. Fever and sick days
27. Smoking
28. Alcohol
29. Illegal drugs
30. Pregnancy and sexual issues
31. Social issues
32. Travel tips
33. Associated diseases
34. Complications in blood vessels
35. Lowering the risk of complications
36. Research and new developments
37. Psychology
38. Needle phobia
39. Well-known people with diabetes
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.6.2013 |
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| Verlagsort | Bridgwater |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 190 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 851 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren |
| Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Diabetologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-85959-350-X / 185959350X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-85959-350-9 / 9781859593509 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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