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When your child is sick, their blood sugar (glucose) levels may change. This may make blood glucose harder to manage. To be ready, work with your child's health care provider to create a sick-day plan.

Diabetes care in young children is not always easy. It might seem like there is a lot for you to remember. But you don't have to do it alone! You'll work with your child's doctor, nurse, a diabetes educator, and others to develop a diabetes management plan.

Diabetes care in young children is not always easy. It might seem like there is a lot for you to remember. But you don't have to do it alone! You'll work with your child's doctor, nurse, a diabetes educator or others to make a diabetes management plan.

Diabetes care in children is not always easy. But you don't have to do it alone! You'll work with your child's doctor, nurse, diabetes educator, and others to develop a diabetes management plan. Use the tips on this sheet to help you adjust to managing your child's diabetes.

Learn how to work with the doctor, nurse, diabetes educator, and others to help manage your child's diabetes.

Your health care provider says that you have diabetes. This may be why you have been feeling sick. But you can learn how to live with diabetes and feel better. Diabetes doesn't have to stop you from doing the things you like to do.

Your doctor says that you have diabetes. It's a serious health problem that can make you feel sick if not treated. But you can learn how to live with diabetes and stay healthy. This sheet tells you some of the basics of coping with diabetes.

If your child has a problem affecting the intestines, they may need a stoma (opening). A stoma provides a new way for stool and mucus to leave the body. During surgery to create a stoma, the colon or sometimes part of the small intestine is removed or disconnected. The end of the intestine is then rerouted through the abdominal wall. Waste leaves the body through the stoma and empties into a bag. It's important to help care for your child's stoma at home. You can help your child adjust to having a stoma.

Follow these tips to help your child's incision heal as it should and to help prevent infection.