Caring for a Child with Diabetes Your child can live a normal life – yes, normal – as long as you, your family, and others learn to help manage his or her blood sugar (glucose) levels. Your household will just have a different definition of “normal.”

INTRODUCTION  TO  Diabetes    Diabetes is a  diseasehat changes the way your body uses glucose (sugar) for energy.People without diabetes have normal blood glucose levelsIf you don’t have diabetes, your food is digested in your stomach and changed into glucose (a kind of sugar). The glucose travels in your bloodstream to your body cells. Insulin produced by your pancreas allows the glucose to enter your body cells and gives them energy.

 

Caring for a Child with Diabetes Your child can live a normal life – yes, normal – as long as you, your family, and others learn to help manage his or her blood sugar (glucose) levels. Your household will just have a different definition of “normal.”

INTRODUCTION  TO  Diabetes    Diabetes is a  diseasehat changes the way your body uses glucose (sugar) for energy.People without diabetes have normal blood glucose levelsIf you don’t have diabetes, your food is digested in your stomach and changed into glucose (a kind of sugar). The glucose travels in your bloodstream to your body cells. Insulin produced by your pancreas allows the glucose to enter your body cells and gives them energy.