Living with Diabetes

Not Agreeing with your Health Plan from your Provider?

Sometimes you or you child may not agree with your diabetes health plan from your provider, Elissa shares tips on ways to help stay on track with your type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes in School Tips

New school? No worries. Tips to help you be organised

Sending your child off to school with diabetes is scary, it's important to help your child's teachers and staff understand their condition and how to manage it by putting steps in place. This should include hypo...

Diabetes Checkup Butterflies

Finding out your kids’ HbA1c results and how well controlled their sugars have been can be really nerve-wracking. Here, Elissa Renouf gives helpful tips and hints on how to stay calm and help your child manage...

Coping with a Type 1 Diagnosis

Having a child diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes can be an overwhelming and devastating time for the whole family. Elissa Renouf shares some tips and advise on how she dealt with 4 type 1 diagnosis'.

Type 1 Diabetes and School Bullies

Having diabetes can make a child an easy target for bullies. Until children understand Type 1 diabetes it's easy for them to make fun of BG testing, hypo's and the rest. Elissa encouraged her children to...

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