Health : Diabetes

• Children with Diabetes – Meet other kids and teens, read about parents’ feelings, and tips about tests and shots. Includes mailing list for kids and mailing list for teens.
• D-Zone – For teens to learn about Type 1, managing at school and talking to friends. Sections on risky behavior, dealing with parents and what to do on the job.
• Diabetes.org: Planet D – Read about other kids and teens with diabetes, join a message board, and learn about this condition. [PDF]
• Enchanted Kingdom – Jared tells his diabetes story. Provides recipes and tips for food choices and eating away from home for diabetic children.
• Grandma Sandy Books – Illustrated stories about type 1 diabetes and insulin pumps. [Free Adobe Acrobat download required.] (In Hebrew, French, Spanish, Swedish, Italian and Afrikaans.)
• Hannah’s Diabetes Page – A young girl describes what it is like to live with diabetes.
• JDRF Kids Online – Tells about the condition, how it is treated, and the search for a cure. Includes a place to share artwork, ideas, and stories, or find a pen pal. From the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.
• Kids R Pumping – Learn about the insulin pump, and some kids and teens who use it.
• Kids’ Health: Diabetes – Learn what it is, different types, problems that it causes, and how to help a friend.
• KidsHealth: Recipes for Kids With Diabetes – Recipes that won’t upset blood sugar levels, like a club wrap, chocolate chip cookies, and a pizza snack.
• Kidszone – Learn about Type 1, how to manage at school and what to tell friends. Color pictures, learn about foods and solve puzzles.
• Living With Diabetes – Find out what it is and how to deal with it. From the Hong Kong Juvenile Diabetes Association.
• Overcoming Juvenile Diabetes With A Little Planning And High-Tech Tools – Information for teens includes controlling diabetes, the importance of insulin, and progress toward a cure.
• Pump Expeditions – Solve the mystery with Zack and experience what life would be like on an insulin pump.
• The Diabetes Quiz – Facts about the disease are presented as a series of multiple choice questions which can be answered against the clock. A separate database contains the correct answers.
• The Juvenile Diabetes Forum – Interactive medical question and answer format about all aspects of juvenile (type 1) diabetes.

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