Living with Diabetes

Treatment of diabetes aims to do what your body would normally do - maintain a proper balance of insulin and glucose. Living well with diabetes means keeping the level of glucose in the blood as close to normal as possible.

The three elements for controlling Type 1 diabetes are food, exercise and insulin. In many people with Type 2 diabetes, diet and exercise alone can control blood glucose levels. A doctor or dietitian will be able to suggest a specific lifestyle or exercise plan depending on age, lifestyle and overall health.

Reviewed January 2012

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Title:   Information sheets about diabetes
Publisher:   Australian Diabetes Council
Description:   Information sheets or fact sheets on up to forty aspects of diabetes management.
Title:   Diabetes - issues for children and teenagers
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Children or teenagers who have recently been diagnosed with diabetes may have a range of concerns. These include dealing with their own emotional reactions and those of others, going back to school and negotiating sex, drinking alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Driving and diabetes
Publisher:   Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic)
Description:   Issues relating to driving and diabetes.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Young People with Diabetes (family perspective)
Publisher:   RealTime Health Pty. Ltd.
Description:   Online videos and DVD's of the personal stories and patient experiences of people with Type 1 Diabetes.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Knowing your rights
Publisher:   Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic)
Description:   How Diabetes Australia - Vic advocates for the rights of people with diabetes on both a local and national level.
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Personal Stories about Diabetes
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to personal stories about living with diabetes.
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Children and adolescents
Publisher:   Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic)
Description:   Children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Events, camps, resources and information.
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Introduction to Carbohydrate Counting
Publisher:   Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Description:   Carbohydrate counting is a useful skill to assist with blood glucose management and achieving flexibility with food choices.
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Diabetes - managing diabetes in childhood
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Managing diabetes is more than just keeping blood glucose levels right. The aim is to make sure that a child or young person can do the things that others of their age can do.
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Travel
Publisher:   Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic)
Description:   Traveling and diabetes. Preparing for travel with diabetes locally and overseas.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Balancing blood glucose
Publisher:   Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic)
Description:   Information about balancing blood glucose to control diabetes.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Support groups
Publisher:   Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic)
Description:   Information about support groups for people living with diabetes, including community network support groups, also know as ComNet groups.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Living with diabetes
Publisher:   Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic)
Description:   Living with diabetes and about health care and support teams.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Physical activity
Publisher:   Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic)
Description:   The importance of staying physically active when you have type 1 diabetes.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Recent evidence suggests that patients with type 2 diabetes who are not taking insulin may not benefit from self-monitoring of blood glucose. Patients with diabetes who require insulin have to monitor their blood glucose by finger-prick (capillary) testing up to 3-4 times or more a day along with their 1-5 insulin injections.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   National Diabetes Services Scheme
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) provides access to subsidised products and information to enable people with diabetes to manage their health.
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Diabetes - living with diabetes
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Living with diabetes can affect the life of a young person in many ways, but they should be able to do almost all of things that another young person can do.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Diabetes - living with diabetes
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Diabetes (diabetes mellitus) happens when the body cannot use glucose, which is made from food, for energy because of a lack of insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is made in the pancreas.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Diabetes - about diabetes
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Diabetes (diabetes mellitus) happens when the body can't use glucose for energy because it does not have any or enough insulin. Insulin controls how much glucose can pass from the blood into body's cells.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Diabetes in adolescents
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   This topic looks at the changes that occur for adolescents physically, emotionally and socially and how these changes impact on living with the chronic disease diabetes mellitus type 1.
Date:   May 2010

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