Carbohydrate and Blood Glucose (Paediatric T1DM)
A resource to help build understanding of the different types of carbohydrate and which foods contain it to support blood glucose control in children with type 1 diabetes.
Classification: DT (Dietitian)
Advice is complex, condition specific and requires a Dietitian with knowledge, skills and experience in the condition.
Credit:
16
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The pack aims to:
- ensure optimal growth and development by encouraging and promoting self-management of diabetes
- support the patient/client and their carers to adopt dietary practice to help avoid long-term diabetes complications.
The target group will:
- understand what starchy and sugary carbohydrates are
- be able to identify foods that contain carbohydrate
- understand how eating foods that contain carbohydrate affects their blood glucose.
International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) Clinical Guidelines, 2022
- Chapter 2: Stages of T1DM in children and adolescents
- Chapter 6: Diabetes Eduction in children and adolescents
- Chapter 8: Glycaemic target and glucose monitoring
- Chapter 10: Nutritional management
- Chaper 12: Assessment and management of hypoglycaemia
- Chapter 14: Exercise