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Diabetes educational videos
Below are resources that can help you and your child better manage his or her diabetes. These videos are intended to help learning, but may not exactly reflect your child’s diabetes plan. Please consult your team for specific information.
Day 1 bundle
These videos review what is discussed on day 1 of education. This can be viewed before if desired and can be viewed after to reinforce learning.
What is Diabetes?
Description: Overview of diabetes.
Insulin
Description: How insulin works and types of insulin.
Carbohydrates
Description: Carbohydrates, nutrition label reading, and counting carbs.
Blood sugar target
Description: Target blood sugar ranges.
How to give an insulin injection
Description: Steps on giving an insulin injection properly
Comfort during blood sugar checks and insulin injections
Description: Comfort during pokes.
Insulin storage
Description: How to store insulin.
Checking blood sugars
Description: How to check a blood sugar.
Recording blood sugar and insulin
Description: How to use a log sheet to record blood sugar and insulin.
Diabetes supplies
Description: Overview of diabetes supplies.
Day 2 bundle
These videos review what is discussed on day 2 of education. This can be viewed before if desired and can be viewed after to reinforce learning.
High blood sugar
Description: Overview of high blood sugars (symptoms and treatment).
Ketones
Description: Overview of ketones and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). How to test for ketones.
Low blood sugar
Description: Overview of low blood sugars (symptoms and treatment).
Activity and blood sugar
Description: Overview of activity and how it affects blood sugars. Disclaimer: Your child may have a different plan for snacks around activity and may not give a blood sugar correction at bedtime. Speak with the diabetes team about what to do.
Emergencies and urgent calls
Description: Overview of emergencies and urgent calls.
Day 3 bundle
These videos review what is discussed on day 3 of education. This can be viewed before if desired and can be viewed after to reinforce learning.
Insulin dose
Description: Overview of insulin dose calculation. Disclaimer: The video uses a similar, but slightly different method of determining your child’s insulin dose. During class, the team will teach you how to calculate your child’s dose.
Review: emergencies and urgent calls
Description: Overview of emergencies and urgent calls.
Review: carbohydrates
Description: Carbohydrates, nutrition label reading, and counting carbs.