CHILDREN AND DIABETES

Children and Diabetes



Children and Diabetes

Dealing With Type 1 Diabetes

A Lesson Plan from the NDEP

Target Audience: People with type 1 diabetes or those influenced by it Objectives: Participants will:

Be adept to characterise kind 1 diabetes.

Be adept to interpret rudimentary remedy for the disease.

Be adept to work with their health group to evolve the best administration design founded on their one-by-one needs.

Time Required: 30-45 minutes; for a 15-minute production, eradicate minutia on high and reduced body-fluid glucose determinants and remedy and school design Equipment: Overhead projector and computer display, overheads encompassing bare transparencies and ballpoints to compose on transparencies. Props:4 ounces juice; cup normal (not diet) soda; little tube of baked cake icing; 1 tablespoon raisins; 3 packets sugar; 5 or 6 Lifesavers; 2 glucose tablets Handouts: "High and Low Blood Glucose Symptoms and Causes"; "Examples of Treatments for Hypoglycemia"; "Preparing a School Plan for Your Child With Diabetes" Optional brandish exact duplicate or handout: "Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel."

Lesson Plan

We don't anticipate juvenile persons and young children to have chronic infections, but type 1 diabetes sways almost one out of every 600 children. This doesn't signify that mature individuals can't evolve it subsequent in life, but it is identified most often in young children and teens.

Can any individual notify me what body part in the body is not functioning commonly when a individual gets kind 1 diabetes? (Answer: the pancreas-show overhead deserving "The Pancreas.") That's right. An body part beside the stomach called the pancreas has exceptional units called beta units that make a hormone called insulin. What does insulin manage for the body? (Answer: It assists to convey the blood glucose (sugar) from our nourishment into our cells.)

 

Type 1 diabetes happens when the beta units can no longer make insulin. The body's antibodies for some cause decimate the cells. No one is certain why it occurs, but it may be a blend of heredity and environment. One day investigators wish to pinpoint the origin and discover how to avert it. For now, all we can manage is discover how to command the infection to avert short-term and long-run difficulties from occurring.

 

What are four things that assist command kind 1 diabetes? (Answer: a wholesome serving of food design, insulin, body-fluid glucose supervising, and normal exercise. Show overhead deserving "Four Ways To Control Type 1 Diabetes.") The consuming and ...