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How To Live With Type 1 Diabetes
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How To Live With Type 1 Diabetes

Your Step By Step Guide To Living With Type 1 Diabetes
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 7/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • How To Live With Type 1 Diabetes
  • Type 1 Diabetes
  • Type 1 Diabetes Basics
  • Type 1 Diabetes Lessons

Course content

1 section10 lectures1h 7m total length
  • Welcome0:16

    Discover a step-by-step guide to living with type 1 diabetes, offering practical strategies for daily management.

  • Chapter 1: Diabetes and Its Effects4:10

    Explore type 1 diabetes origins in autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells, insulin challenges, and the reactive, emotional journey plus the honeymoon phase.

  • Chapter 2: Blood Sugar11:44

    Learn how blood sugar affects diabetics, including signs of high and low readings and dehydration. Discover practical management: hydrate with water, check glucose, and carry snacks or glucose tablets.

  • Chapter 3: Supplies and Medicine6:37

    Explore managing type 1 diabetes through blood sugar and ketone testing, selecting simple, reliable supplies, and using fast- and slow-acting insulin via syringes, pens, or pumps.

  • Chapter 4: Living with Diabetes – Part One5:03

    Explore living with type 1 diabetes through exercise, learning your limits, managing insulin and hydration, preventing blood sugar spikes, cramps, and injuries through stretching.

  • Chapter 5: Living with Diabetes – Part Two6:02

    Explore how to balance meals and carbs for type 1 diabetes, using CGM insights to manage insulin and glucose without sacrificing desserts.

  • Chapter 6: Living with Diabetes – Part Three9:58

    Explore how emotions and stress raise blood glucose in type 1 diabetes. Learn to manage fasting, identification, emergency contacts, and insurance to stay safe and prepared.

  • Chapter 7: Medical Complications11:22

    Explore how chronic high blood glucose and A1C levels cause eye, kidney, and extremity damage, with emphasis on wound healing, neuropathy, and the risk of amputation.

  • Chapter 8: Warnings and Lifestyle Changes9:12

    Explore warnings and lifestyle changes for living with type 1 diabetes, including family history, pregnancy considerations, patient–doctor communication, regular appointments, insulin management, college and work life adjustments.

  • Chapter 9: Extra Advice3:12

    Attend camps or classes for new type one diabetics to access resources and support, learn practical living lessons, and manage glucose through healthy diet and mindful emotions.

Requirements

  • No experience necessary - All levels welcome - Beginners, Intermediate, & Advanced

Description

If you want to learn tips on how to cope with Type 1 Diabetes, then get "How To Live With Type 1 Diabetes" by someone who has Type 1 Diabetes in real life.

Type 1 diabetes is not something to be taken lightly. Spending your entire life studying your illness, instead of actually living, isn't really what most diabetics have in mind either. Knowing the basics and living out the rest is the balance many are looking for, and the “How to Live With Type 1 Diabetes” guide is just the resource for the job.

Life is meant to be lived fully and without restraints, and this guide offers countless tools to keep the weight of being a diabetic off your shoulders. Some of them include:

- Information on the newest technologies

- Basic steps, both mental and physical, to aid new diabetics

- What you need to know about your illness

- Personal examples with blood sugar ranges

- Information on associated medical issues as well as how to avoid them

- Tips on exercising, eating, and even sleeping

- Help with how to talk to your doctor

- Specific references on topics like hospitals, insurance, and camps

- Emotional situations and how they affect blood glucose

- Preferences regarding what to look out for from a real type 1 diabetic

Each chapter brings together the most contemplated, practiced, or forgotten parts of diabetic living, works to identify each one, and lists a number of steps and methods to improve life with type 1 diabetes as a whole. Today is the day to start living your life with diabetes, instead of trying to live around it, and “How To Live with Type 1 Diabetes” is here to help.

Who this course is for:

  • People who want to learn how to live with Type 1 Diabetes
  • People who want to learn and help others with Type 1 Diabetes