Take Control of Your Diabetes: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment

by DK

Overview

If you or a loved one is living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, you need this friendly guide to managing health, diet, physical activity, and treatment.

This book is packed with simple, easy-to-understand explanations of how diabetes works and practical, positive advice for preventing or living with it. Illustrated in full color throughout, it includes step-by-step illustrated sequences, flowcharts, and diagrams. Routines such as how to monitor and control blood glucose are explained in the clearest possible way. Find out how the types of diabetes differ, what signs to look out for, how to care for children with diabetes, how to reduce the risk of long-term complications, what to do in emergencies, and how to stay motivated and positive.

Take Control of Your Diabetes will help you make successful lifestyle choices to promote health, be active, eat healthily, and thrive, not just survive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780594267782
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	11/10/2020
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,075,337
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

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Table of Contents

Foreword 7

What is diabetes?

Understanding diabetes 10

Type 1 diabetes 12

Type 2 diabetes 14

Other types of diabetes 16

Symptoms 18

Diagnosis 20

Preventing and reversing diabetes 22

What to expect when first diagnosed 24

Managing your blood glucose

Monitoring blood glucose 28

Monitoring equipment 32

Checking your blood glucose 36

What your results may mean 38

Medication for diabetes 40

Insulin treatment 42

Types of insulin 44

Insulin regimens 46

Adjusting insulin doses 48

Insulin equipment and care 52

Injecting Insulin 56

Other diabetes medication 58

Advances in treatment 60

Hypoglycemia 62

Recognizing hypoglycemia 64

Treating hypoglycemia 66

Hyperglycemia 68

Recognizing and treating hyperglycemia 70

Eating, drinking, and being active

Healthy eating 74

Food and diabetes 76

Carbohydrates and fiber 78

Fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals 84

Beverages 86

Cooking and eating out 88

Weight and diabetes 92

How to lose weight 94

Physical activity 100

Being more active 102

Activity and blood glucose 104

Living with diabetes

Managing your emotions 110

Work 112

Driving 114

Vacations and travel 116

Sex and relationships 118

Keeping healthy 120

Caring for your feet 122

Dealing with illness 124

Taking medication 126

Going into the hospital 128

Women's health 130

Pregnancy 132

Gestational diabetes 136

Giving birth 138

Life with a new baby 140

Benefiting from health care 142

Children and young people

Babies and young children 146

Babies and young children: what to eat and drink 148

Babies and young children: blood glucose management 150

Babies and young children: blood glucose and insulin 152

Babies and young children: dealing with hypoglycemia 154

School-age children 156

School-age children: meal-planning strategies 158

School-age children: blood glucose management 160

School-age children: blood glucose and insulin 162

School-age children: dealing with hypoglycemia 164

Teenagers and young adults 166

Teenagers and young adults: dealing with your feelings 168

Teenagers and young adults: getting on with your life 170

Dealing with complications

Psychological problems 176

Eye conditions 180

Urinary system conditions 184

Foot conditions 188

Cardiovascular conditions 192

Other conditions 198

Information for Canada 202

Resources 203

Index 204

Acknowledgments 208