Physical Activity
Information to help children and young people manage their blood glucose while participating in active training and competitive sports. Part of NDR-UK's Paediatric Diabetes range.
Classification: HP (Health Professional)
Advice requires some explanation from a Health Professional who has basic nutrition knowledge to enable correct implementation.
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- To ensure optimal growth and development by encouraging and promoting self-management of diabetes.
- To support the patient/client and their carers to adopt dietary practice to help avoid long-term diabetes complications.
The Target Group will:
- Understand what foods contain CHO.
- Understand how CHO affects blood glucose levels.
- Know how to identify foods that contain CHO and how to calculate the amount of CHO in a serving of food:
- Know how to use CHO reference table/grid - Know that insulin in required to regulate blood glucose and energy.
- Know how to calculate bolus insulin – how to use the table/grid and bolus advisors. - Know how to read labels and use this information to:
- calculate CHO in servings
- make healthy food choices. - Know how to calculate and adjust insulin (bolus and basal) for meals, snacks and activities based on variable factors including:
- GI (fat, sugar, fibre, protein content)
- Time and duration of meals/eating
- Stress/excitement, energy expenditure - Understand the importance of monitoring and keeping a diary to record BG, insulin, CHO etc.
- Mark A. Sperling (eds) ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2014
- Francesca Annan, Physical Activity and Diabetes – health benefits and management strategies for children and young people. Diabetes care for Children & Young People – vol 2 No 1 2013
- Carmel Smart, Both Dietary Protein and Fat Increase Postprandial Glucose Excursions in Children with type 1 diabetes, and the Effect is Additive. Diabetes care volume 36: 3897 – 3902 December 2013
- Frances Hanson, Karen Ross, Expressing carbohydrate ratios, Diabetes care for Children & Young People – vol 2 No 1 2013
- Diabetes Action Plan, The Scottish Government (2010), The Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
- D De Silva, Helping people help themselves. A review of the evidence considering whether it’s worthwhile to support self-management, The Health Foundation, London. (2011)
- Guidance on the use of patient education models for diabetes, Technology, Appraisal 60, NICE (2003) London.
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