Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Getting to grips with diabetes
3. Caring for your own diabetes
4. Diabetes: some background
5. How your body works
6. High blood glucose levels
7. Regulation of blood glucose
8. Hypoglycaemia
9. Treating hypogylcaemia
10. Insulin treatment
11. Monitoring
12. The HbA1c test
13. Injection technique
14. Injection equipment
15. Adjusting insulin doses
16. Insulin pumps
17. Side effects of insulin treatment
18. Insulin requirements
19. Nutrition
20. Sweeteners
21. Sweets, treats and ice cream
22. Weight control
23. Eating disorders
24. Physical exercise
25. Stress
26. Fever and sick days
27. Smoking
28. Alcohol
29. Illegal drugs
30. Pregnancy and sexual issues
31. Social issues
32. Travel tips
33. Associated diseases
34. Complications in blood vessels
35. Lowering the risk of complications
36. Research and new developments
37. Psychology
38. Needle phobia
39. Well-known people with diabetes

About the Author

Dr Ragnar Hanas is Consultant Paediatrician at Uddevalla Hospital in Sweden, specialising in diabetes. He is Secretary General of the International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), and co-editor of the 2009 ISPAD Clinical Practice Guidelines.