Learn about increasing enteral feeds in a child with intestinal failure to help them achieve enteral autonomy.
Being sick can impact your child's blood sugar levels. Find tips on how to manage diabetes on sick days.
Learn how people with diabetes measure their blood sugar levels and why it is important to do so.
Checking blood sugar levels is the best way to tell how well your child is balancing their insulin, sugar from food, and exercise. Learn how to monitor this.
Find out how you can measure blood sugar levels at home and why this is important for your child.
Find out why understanding the relationships between food, insulin, activity and high or low blood sugar readings is important for diabetes management.
Sometimes events occur that can disrupt your child's diabetes routine and impact their blood sugar levels. Find out what can impact them and what you can do.
When taking CFTR modulators is it important to take them with fat. You may also need to make other changes to your diet when taking CFTR modulators.
Find out what a good A1c reading is and what it means for your child.
Tonic-clonic seizures involve sudden muscle stiffening and contraction, and rhythmic twitching or jerking. Read about their causes and how they can be treated.
Learn the symptoms, causes and treatment of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, or low and high blood sugar levels.
Exercise will have an impact on your child's blood sugar levels. Learn how to adjust insulin accordingly.
Although there is no cure for diabetes, the condition can be effectively managed. Learn how to properly test and manage blood sugar levels.
Insulin allows sugar to be stored as energy. Learn what role insulin plays in diabetes management.
Learn tips about insulin injection and get answers to questions you may have about giving insulin to your child.
Read the story of 12-year-old Pino and how his meal plan with consistent carbohydrate intakes works for him.
Diabetes is a life-long condition. Learn what causes it and what role insulin plays in the body.
Maintaining a healthy diet is an essential part of diabetes management. Learn why it's so important.
Therapeutic clown A. Leboo has a hard time swallowing pills. Child Life Specialists help A. Leboo learn how to swallow pills by practicing with different sizes of candy.
Discover the sources and acceptable daily intake limits, if any, of sweeteners and caffeine.
