This resource from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) gives tips to improve mind-body connection and digestion through practicing mindfulness at mealtimes.
Gvoke Glucagon injection is a prescription medicine used to treat low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) in adults and kids with diabetes ages 2 years and above.
Gvoke HypoPen™ is the first autoinjector for very low blood sugar. It is premixed and ready-to-go, with no visible needle. That means it's easy‑to‑use!
This resource from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia provides information on 504 plans, which ensure reasonable accommodations for children who qualify.
This interactive learning module from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia lets you practice how to prepare a Basal or Bolus insulin dose for injection.
This video demonstrates how to give insulin using a pre-filled pen, including where and how to give the injection, supplies you’ll need, how to dispose of the used pen needle, and more. En español.
This interactive video explains the signs, symptoms and causes of low blood sugar, how the body is affected, and what you can do to correct a low blood sugar when detected.
Camp Freedom is a lifeline for children with diabetes to develop the critical skills needed to thrive while managing this disease. Attending summer camp helps children develop social skills, self-respect and life-long friendships. We give kids the opportunity to meet other kids just like them while fostering independence, building self-confidence and gaining an awareness of a healthy lifestyle through education, nutrition, exercise, emotional well-being and glucose control.
Camp Possibilities offers swimming, fishing, arts and crafts, basketball, field games, nature walks, talent shows, dances and many other activities for youth with diabetes. Camp is located on the Ramblewood Campgrounds.
Camp Setebaid offers a fun-filled week packed with lots of exciting activities, team building exercises and learning experiences for youth with Type 1 Diabetes.
KDKC is a week long camp where children with type 1 diabetes, ages 7 – 16 can come to have fun, meet other kids with diabetes and experience camp. KDKC is held at the Camp Victory facility every year during the third week of June.
Offers non-stop fun for children 6-16 years who are deaf, blind or have type 1 diabetes. Campers will participate in an overnight camp supervised by trained counselors. They also offer family and siblings diabetic camps.
In this video, you will learn how food and different types of insulin (long acting and fast acting, or lantus and bolus insulin) affect your blood sugars.
In this video, you will learn how to use a sliding scale to determine the insulin you'll need to account for the number of carbs you're eating in a meal.
For those with diabetes looking at the Nutrition Facts on food packaging, this video will teach them to focus on serving size and weight, and total carbohydrate.
In this video, you will learn when you should and shouldn't take insulin to correct for high blood sugar. It all depends on the timing of your meals and snacks.
In this video, you will learn how to use the correction factor and insulin to carb ratio on a sliding scale to determine how much insulin to give with a meal.
CDN was founded in 2009 by a college student with T1D who felt isolated and struggled to manage her diabetes. "As a student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, I struggled with managing my T1D on my own. In my junior year, I formed a group to connect students with T1D. We supported each other, exchanged strategies, and even supplies. The group changed my life at college and was the impetus for starting CDN."
The Consumer Guide is a listing of diabetes-related products. With hundreds of diabetes supplies all in one place, shopping is simpler. You can compare devices, filter by the features that matter most to you, and learn more about the medications and devices you use daily.
Find information about Precision Xtra®, which tests for both blood glucose and blood ketones, and learn about the advantages of checking for blood ketones.
Keep this ketone rules timeline easily accessible to help you stay on track with managing your ketones anytime you see purple pop up on the urine stick. Print it out, hang it on your fridge, or save the image on your phone!
Provides general guidelines for diabetes care at school, including diabetes medical management plan, responsibilities of the various stakeholders, and special considerations for diabetes management at school.
Through its Safe at School Campaign, the American Diabetes Association works to make sure that the diabetes management needs of students are met so they are healthy and safe when they are at school.
Find training and support materials that can prepare and educate school staff to provide needed care to students with diabetes. The training resources include toolkits, posters, training modules and much more.
Find AADE’s position statement on topics related to diabetes education, practice papers, practice levels, competencies for diabetes educators and more.
Provides reliable health information for people with diabetes who want to know more about controlling and managing their diabetes, including the Diabetes Self-Management magazine, a weekly newsletter, a number of books, and a blog.
The InPen™ requires a prescription. It is a home-use reusable pen injector for single-patient use by people with diabetes under the supervision of an adult caregiver, or by a patient age 7 and older for the self-injection of a desired dose of insulin.
This guide is intended to help school nurses with the basic operation of a student’s MiniMed™ 770G system. Please note that this booklet does not cover all aspects of insulin pump therapy and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). It is written for healthcare professionals with some experience with this technology.
Omnipod DASH System is a simple system consisting of just 2 parts — the tubeless Pod and the handheld Personal Diabetes Manager (PDM) that you use to wirelessly program your insulin delivery.
Provides information about continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), the differences between CGM and a blood glucose meter, and how you might use CGM as a school nurse.
The t:slim X2™ insulin pump from Tandem Diabetes Care uses Control-IQ® technology, which is designed to help keep blood sugar levels in range by predicting glucose levels (based on Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitoring) and adjusting insulin delivery accordingly.
Find tips on how you can help your child, and yourself, cope with the demands of managing diabetes, form the experts at the Diabetes Center for Children at CHOP.
If you are traveling or going on vacation this summer, make sure you plan ahead to keep your diabetes in check. Dealing with high blood sugars – or worse, a trip to the hospital – can put a damper on your plans.
Open communication between you and your teenager with diabetes is important. Recognize that your teen wants to be treated as an adult, even if that means letting him take charge of his own diabetes management plan.
This module will help you count the carbs for small, medium and large portions of foods you eat often, and equate carb count to varying units of insulin.
Vitamin D is an important vitamin with many health benefits. All children need vitamin D, as it helps our bodies absorb calcium to build strong bones and teeth. It also helps maintain a healthy immune system.
Learn about the importance of meal planning for children with diabetes, and how carbohydrates, sugars, proteins and fats affect your child's blood sugar levels.
Find and rate low calorie, healthy recipes at SparkRecipes. Use the free recipe calculator to find the calories, carbs, fat and protein in your recipes.
SugarStats gives you a simple and easy-to-use interface to input and access your data from home, school, work, when you're on the road or just about anywhere at all.
Watch registered dietitians from the Diabetes Center as they make their way around the supermarket, giving tips on making healthy food choices for teens and families with diabetes.
This course discusses three important things you need to explain to your roommate when you go to college: your diabetes, your lows and how they can help.
The Diabetes Center for Children at CHOP holds an annual educational conference for kids with diabetes and their families. At the 2014 conference, meeting organizers showed this video featuring CHOP diabetes patients doing the things they love.
Olympic gold medal swimmer Gary Hall Jr. speaks to children at Seacrest Studios at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia about life as an athlete with diabetes.
The American Diabetes Association provides information about living with diabetes, advocacy and research, as well as training resources, an online publication and more.
NDDIC provides information about digestive diseases, statistics, research and more, from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
NIDDK is a branch of the National Institutes of Health that offers health and research information about a variety of digestive diseases that can affect the liver.