What effect does exercise have on glucose levels?
When exercising, muscles use glucose for energy. At first, the body uses glucose converted from glycogen in the muscles. Then, glucose is taken from the bloodstream. During prolonged exercise, in order prevent blood glucose levels from becoming too low, glucagon and additional hormones are released. These hormones trigger [...]

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Diabetes camp was a fantastic experience for us allowing our son to have a normal camp experience while being inspired by others with Type 1 diabetes.

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Though we are all hopeful for an eventual cure for Type 1 diabetes, the continued wins researchers are seeing in their quest to create an artificial pancreas is heartening.

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We’ve tried lots of different foods when our son suffers from low blood glucose levels (hypoglycemia).  Depending on how low he is and what activities he’s about to undertake we’ve gotten comfortable with a good variety of different choices.
The obvious goal when treating hypoglycemia is to get some food into the body that will quickly [...]

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Here’s a great, brief article that came from the American Diabetes Association’s Parents eNewsletter.
Tips for Sleepovers
The following section was taken from posts on the Place for Parents Message Board on diabetes.org. These tips should not replace advice and/or recommendations from a health care provider but reflect issues that parents deal with day-to-day.
“I know my 7–year [...]

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Diabetes Mellitus is a term often used to describe Type 1 diabetes or even diabetes in general. As we became exposed to the condition, the different names and types of diabetes was an initial source of confusion. Let us give you a little history lesson on the origin of the word and hopefully [...]

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Hyperglycemia occurs when blood glucose levels rise beyond normal levels. Unlike hypoglycemia there are typically no immediate negative side-effects, however it is hyperglycemia that tends to be the long-term battle of most people with diabetes.
Because those with Type 1 diabetes are not able to produce insulin, there is the constant danger of rising blood [...]

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A nice introductory video about the different forms of insulin and how to administer it. Good luck to ‘HardtobeSweet’ with all of her videos.

Link to video: Injecting Insulin

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Yesterday, November 21, the California Superior Court overturned an earlier agreement between the California Department of Education and the American Diabetes Association allowing unlicensed school personnel to administer insulin.
The California Nurses Organization obviously was quite pleased with the decision as it now appears that only licensed nurses will be allowed to administer insulin injections in [...]

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Traveling with diabetes and taking insulin on a plane was something we experienced right away. Our son was diagnosed while he was visiting Thailand and so only a week after getting out of the hospital we were on our way back to the U.S.
Not only were we still shell-shocked with the diagnosis and not [...]

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