Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin. Your body needs insulin, a hormone that converts sugar, starches and other food into energy. There are two types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2. This page offers further information about diabetes, as well as tips for living with it.

PAMF Content for Parents

• HealthWise KnowledgeBase: Carbohydrate counting for children with diabetes


• HealthWise KnowledgeBase: Dealing with low blood sugar in children taking only oral medication for diabetes


• HealthWise KnowledgeBase: Dealing with low blood sugar when your child takes insulin


• HealthWise KnowledgeBase: Giving an insulin injection to a child with diabetes


• HealthWise KnowledgeBase: Home blood sugar monitoring for children with diabetes


• HealthWise KnowledgeBase: Preventing high blood sugar emergencies in children with diabetes
• HealthWise KnowledgeBase: Type 1 Diabetes


• HealthWise KnowledgeBase: Type 2 Diabetes

PAMF Content for Your Preteen

• Diabetes

PAMF Content for Your Teen

• Chronic Diseases-Diabetes


• Diabetes Question

Outside Resources

• Tips for Teens with Type 2 Diabetes: This tip sheet for kids, produced by the National Diabetes Education Program, discusses how adolescents can reach out and get support from others, involve their family and health care team, and take action to manage their disease for life. It includes information about other tip sheets for adolescents with type 2 diabetes, pen pals, camps, Web sites and additional resources are also provided.

Recommended Books

• My Child Has Diabetes: A Parent’s Guide to a Normal Life After Diagnosis by Karen Hargrave-Nykaza

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