Type 1 Diabetes Students

Diabetes substantially limits the life function of eating, and it also negatively impacts the life function of learning. Support to manage diabetes and a schedule to check blood sugar levels during non-instructional times of the day or the opportunity to make up any work missed during blood sugar checks are accommodations that would be in this student’s 504 plan. The 504 plan might also require all staff to be trained to recognize and handle any complications related to diabetes to ensure the child’s

Unfortunately, due to the unprecedented increase in diabetic diagnoses, there are simply not enough doctors available. Educators, therefore, are and will continue to be needed to assist in this shortfall. They will teach new patients how to manage their diabetes, and assists and educate “older” patients in new, exciting technologies.

Empowerment parents of children with diabetes through provision of resources and emotional support, aids in dealing with the chronic disease¹⁵. Support groups can not only help parents keep abreast of new treatment options, but also provide strategies to better care for their children¹⁶. Face-to-face support from healthcare professionals provides reassurance as well as psychological and emotional support in dealing with the

There are costs of diabetes that the community pays for, helping those with the condition. These costs can be direct - costs linked specifically to diabetes, indirect - not specifically associated with diabetes, or intangible - being costs which aren’t physical, such as emotional pain. In relation to diabetes, community costs are increasing as is the number of individuals who have diabetes. Direct costs for communities can include funding treatment costs, cost of prevention strategies, cost of pharmaceuticals and cost of diagnosis. The direct cost of funding the treatment of diabetes includes having to pay for hospitalisation service costs. Even though the community as a whole has to assist in paying for the hospitalization of individuals experiencing diabetes. The average cost of hospitilisation services for people who have diabetes is around 6.3 billion dollars, most of which is coming from communities worldwide. Educating and promoting the younger generations of diabetes and the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle to prevent the condition also costs the community. Promotional campaigns such as WDD and Measure Up costs the community to run each year, so that the prevalence of diabetes can be reduced. Other promotional techniques such as talks with local schools and programs such as Healthy Harold costs the community to educate the younger generation on the importance of decreasing the amount of people with diabetes so that the costs to individuals

Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus have to rely on insulin therapy for the rest of their life. Available via injection, insulin can be administered once or four times a day depending on the patient's blood glucose conditions. It is essential for the patient to have routine physician checkups every week after being recently diagnosed. During that meeting, the physician will study the results of blood glucose tests and urine samples to check for abnormalities. Along with these checkups, diet plays a critical role in maintaining healthy blood glucose levels and the patient will have to monitor their dietary intake. The weekly testing and consultations will cease to fewer once the levels are managed but it is essential to maintain precautions to monitor long term complications.

I am interested in the autoimmune disease, Type 1 diabetes because I grew up looking after by best friend who was diagnosed with it at 5 years old. Everything revolved around her diabetes because there were certain things she couldn’t do or eat. Her meals and insulin injections were scheduled at a certain time to keep her blood glucose levels regulated. She had to keep track of everything she ate and how many carbs were in each food she ate. She checked her blood about 15-20 times a day to see her blood glucose levels. If her levels ever got too low or too high she was at risk of having a seizure. She has had a few seizures during the night because her blood glucose levels dropped too low while she was sleeping. Her mom would wake up every

On a warm April morning, a vase full of yellow tulips sat on the table next to my seven-year-old sister’s hospital bed. Across the colorful Phoenix Children’s Hospital room my mom and stepdad sat reading medical journals and any information they could find on Austyn’s new diagnosis, Type 1 Diabetes. My family and I were heartbroken, she was so young and did not deserve any of the problems she had to cope with. However, she did deserve the highest medical treatment and facilities we could reach. The doctors came in every day with smiles and presents for her, and with support and information for my parents.

Patient 3 displays symptoms that are typical for diabetes. These symptoms were glucose in the urine, extreme thirstiness, tiredness and passing urine very often. One of the most common ways to tell that you are diabetic is glucose in urine which mean your pancreas is not producing insulin. Insulin is vital to your body and the beta cells in the pancreas produce it in a healthy person. It then sends it through your blood stream where it aids in absorbing glucose from the food we eat in order to produce energy. If your pancreas doesn’t produce insulin you have diabetes and you need to add insulin into your body. Type two diabetes is if your blood sugar levels are too high because your pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin or your body is resistant to the insulin that is produced. The reason for Type 2 diabetes is not known but it could have to do with disposition, unhealthy diet and obesity (Diabetes Australia, 2015). Type 1 diabetes on the other hand is an auto-immune condition. This means that the immune system is destroying the blood cells in the pancreas that are responsible for producing insulin. A lot of people are born with type one diabetes. Some women are diagnosed with diabetes type 2 in pregnancy, this is called gestational diabetes and this form of

Type 1 Diabetes affects large numbers of children and adolescents nationwide. Gan, Albanese-O’Neil and Haller (2012) describe Type 1 diabetes (T1D) as:

My aim was to promote and to educate how living with diabetes can affect an individual with their lifestyle and what is diabetes? As many people don’t know the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Many people also don’t know the process or the lifestyle that the individual has changed. I investigated multiple aspects of this issue by doing surveys and an interview.

Patients has a solid grasp on what diabetes is and how it works. This patient was given diabetes education at first diagnosis and when transitioning from insulin pen to insulin pump. The learner appreciated that we brought her updated print outs on diabetes because she prefers to have information to refer back to and also that her boyfriend and eventually her children could look at. The patient’s motivation to learn came stemmed from her feeling like she had a control on her diabetes and wanting to not have another hospital

Average annual expenditure incurred by a person with diabetes in 2012 was $13,700 (American Diabetes Association [ADA], 2013). This is 2.3 times higher than a person without diabetes. These costs can include office visits, emergency care, hospitalizations, medications, and equipment for home care. Not only does the individual suffer a colossal financial burden from diabetes, so does the economy. The total cost of diabetes to the American economy in 2012 was $245 billion, $176 billion of which went toward direct medical costs such as hospital and emergency care, office visits, and medications (ADA, 2013). Sixteen percent of healthcare expenditures attributed to diabetes were spent on inpatient hospitalizations and six percent on emergency visits (ADA, 2013). These numbers show a necessity for improved diabetes education and overall increased attention to diabetes in our

Juvenile Diabetes is a disease that more and more children are getting each day and it affect about 0.1 percent of children that are school age. There are two types of diabetes that are common in children. The first one is type one diabetes and the second one is type two diabetes. There are major health problems associated with type one including troubles physically, a multidisciplinary approach by physician, nurse and dietitian is needed to treat juvenile diabetes. In patients with new onset type 1 diabetes, lifelong insulin therapy must be started. As a chronic disease diabetes mellitus requires long term medical attention both to limit the development of its devastating physical and psychological complications and to manage them when they do occur. As for the ADA (American Diabetes Association) Diabetes Mellitus is a disproportionately expensive disease; I read that in 2002, the per capita cost of health care was $13,243 for people with diabetes, while it was $2,560 for those without diabetes. As of now there is no cure for Juvenile Diabetes but there is ongoing research to test medications and new products to find a cure for Juvenile Diabetes. There are however many coping methods, support groups, counseling, insulin injections and pumps that children with juvenile diabetes make a part of their everyday lives.

According to Evans and Ficca (2012), within the last forty years, the number of chronic health conditions among school children has risen from 1.8% to 25%. In the United States, more than 215,000 young people under the age of 20 have type 1 or type 2 diabetes (American Association of Diabetes Educators, 2014). School age children typically spend more than one-third of their day in a school setting under the supervision of teachers. Therefore, in order to provide a safe learning environment for students with diabetes, school personnel must possess basic knowledge and understanding regarding the disease process of diabetes, symptoms of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, desired blood glucose level management, and the appropriate response to diabetic emergency situations. The understanding and support offered by teachers and other school personnel play a crucial role in reducing emotional issues related to their illness and increasing academic success (Hains, et al., 2009).

This research proposal creates programs for children living with diabetes so that education and management of diabetes will continue during school hours. Mississippi State uses programs like these to address the incidence of diabetes in the state. The incidence and measurement of diabetes in the state, and at the county level, is completed yearly and quarterly and the state research agencies collaborate with the federal government both in the reporting requirements and in the building of programs that address the findings from the reports.