Diabetes type 1 (young people)

• Overview
• Discovery
  • Symptoms of Type 1 diabetes
  • Being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in hospital
  • Information about Type 1 diabetes
• The diabetes care team
  • What happens at the diabetes clinic?
  • What makes a good consultation with the care team?
  • Children, transition and young adult clinics
  • Patient Education Courses
• Diabetes control
  • Insulin: different ways of managing it
  • Insulin: doing injections everyday
  • Insulin pumps
  • Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM)
  • Finding the right insulin regimen for you
  • Doing blood glucose tests - 'the finger pricking'
  • Hypos (hypoglycaemia)
  • Highs (hyperglycaemia)
  • Everyday factors that affect diabetes control
  • Managing diabetes as a teenager
  • Diet and diabetes
  • Obesity and other eating problems when you have type 1 diabetes
• Living with it
  • Support from parents and families
  • School and diabetes
  • University and work with diabetes
  • Messages to other young people with diabetes
  • Messages to doctors and nurses
• Lifestyles & relationships
  • What about periods, contraception and diabetes?
  • Drinking and alcohol with diabetes
  • Friends and relationships
  • Travelling abroad with diabetes
  • Online discussion groups and blogs
• People's Profiles
  • Men aged 16 to 18
  • Men aged 19 to 26
  • Woman aged 19 to 27
  • Women aged 16 to 18
• Resources and Information
• Credits