Weights and Measures to Support Carbohydrate Counting (Paediatric T1DM)
A step-by-step guide to counting carbohydrate by weighing and measuring food.
Classification: SHP (Specialist Health Professional)
Advice requires detailed explanation from a Dietitian or other specialist Health Professional with appropriate nutritional knowledge, to enable correct understanding and implementation.
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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 audience will be able to:
- understand how to interpret nutritional labels to use the correct carbohydrate values
- identify foods containing and calculate the carbohydrate in food/meals prepared at home
- refer to guides/tools recommended by their diabetes team to improve skills around estimating carbohydrate in different foods.
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 monitoringC
- Chapter 10: Nutritional management
- Chaper 12: Assessment and management of hypoglycaemia
- Chapter 14: Exercise