How to Help your Diabetic Child
Diabetes at a tender age can be really problematic. Teenagers suffering from diabetes can miss a whole lot of fun their other friends usually have. However, proper guidance from your the parents and a well planed diet programme can allow your child to enjoy a healthy living and indulge in all the physical activities along with friends. Diabetic children normally don’t take good care of themselves and parents remain worried about them a lot. Maintaining sugar levels is the key to a healthy living in diabetes and you need to properly educate your children how to adopt such practices.
Instructions
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Tell your child to maintain a track of their blood sugar regularly. Diabetic patients need to check their blood sugar levels everyday and note down the readings to look at the trend they are undergoing. Any proper medication will strictly depend on the track record of your child’s blood sugar levels.
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It is better to help out your child maintaining the record of blood sugar levels. You can print out a chart so that your child can fill it out after checking out the sugar levels every time. This record will help you out to make necessary changes to your child’s diet and medication.
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If your child needs to check the blood sugar level during the nights, wake up with them at that time and let him know that you are by his side. This will induce the sense of caring for himself within your child and will tell him that he is not alone.
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Encourage your child that he is going to be fine and his life is not coming to an end. Build up reassurance within them and let them know they can enjoy a normal healthy life while carrying diabetes.
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Never get tensed about diabetes in front of your child. You are to be the source of courage and hope for your child and you should adopt a positive attitude towards your child’s disease. Diabetes is far better than other life-threatening diseases and your child can survive healthily with it.
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Involve his friends in reminding him to check blood sugar level and take on healthy diet when your child is out of house.
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Encourage your child to indulge in physical activities and hang out with friends. Physical exertion helps in burning excessive sugar in the blood.
