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| Preparing Your Child |  After you get accustomed to the first shock of diabetes diagnosis you become more comfortable with managing insulin shots, setting up blood tests and mealtimes, and carbohydrate counting we have a possibility to look to the future.
From this time you sink in what a long-term engagement parenting a diabetic child really is. Now you realize that you have been involved in other lifestyle that will last as long as you are parents. Even when our child is grown up we will still be concerned and drawn into the diabetes community.
Brief Statistics
- 35-75% do not follow meal plans all of the time
- 20-80% do not manage insulin properly all of the time
- 30-70% do not register blood-monitoring level properly all of the time
- 23-52% do not provide adequate foot care all of the time
- 70-81% do not exercise sufficiently all of the time
After this statistics we realize how complicated it is to live with a chronic and potentially lethal disease. The question is how we teach our children the reality of diabetes while still allowing them to be kids and trying to keep their lives as normal as possible.
They are everything you need to stay away from keeping your child's diabetes under control but they are also an important part of your child's life. With some setting up you can have both. The point is life and diabetes can go on together. It is very important that your child's friends learn about diabetes and talk about it. They don't discriminate, they include your child. Parents need to be adults in these types of situations.
General family stress can significantly affect blood glucose levels. It is a fragile balance. When your child's blood glucose levels are out of control it can result in stress in the family. Moreover, when there is stress in the family it can lead to uncontrolled blood glucose levels. You need to be prepared for these times.
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