Originally published July 12 2005
Website offers teens with diabetes a few tips
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Health 24's latest article on teens with diabetes offers tips for teens to deal with the added responsibility and pressure of their affliction.
These are years that bring change, new friends, new schools, more social events and for diabetic teens, much more responsibility for your diabetes management.
It is important that you get a doctor you trust and feel you can confide in.
You need to help your healthcare team here -- unless you are honest, no one will know how to help you manage your diabetes.
By all means do what you can to keep your blood glucose levels steady, but don't link your general opinion of yourself to this single thing.
It is always a liberating thing to do, when you no longer have to keep secrets.
Then there will be someone there who knows why you are not having any birthday cake.
Remember just to tell people in the beginning that diabetes is not contagious -- chances are they know very little about the condition.
If people give you strange looks because of your having diabetes, they simply don't understand and may not be worth having as friends.
Teachers need to know about your diabetes and also need to know what the symptoms are of high and low blood glucose levels, in case they need to assist you if you appear shaky or confused.
If you have Type 1 diabetes, there should be some teachers at the school who are able to inject you, if necessary.
If you don't make a big deal of it, neither will your friends -- remember that they will react in the same way as they see you reacting.
During adolescence, your insulin needs may fluctuate fairly wildly.
Adolescent boys sometimes need as much as six times the insulin diabetic adults need, because of hormone fluctuations.
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