Product Description

This is a step-by-step guide to achieving optimal health with diabetes for young people with type 1 diabetes and their parents, as well as health care professionals, teachers, schools, counsellors and many others. It offers straightforward guidance on blood glucose, hypos, healthy eating, exercise, illness, smoking, travel and many other topics. It includes practical checklists, and stories from young people with diabetes. It also includes an extensive glossary defining 174 medical terms, 429 illustrations and cartoons.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16949 in Books
• Published on: 2009-11-30
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
It is an incredible book, which deals in depth with every detail of diabetes care in young people and it never ducks any issues --Dr Charles Fox, Consultant Physician at Northampton General Hospital

This is far and away the best diabetes resource I have ever come across. It has information you will not find anywhere else and is well presented and indexed...If you are serious about managing your child's diabetes to the best of your ability, you cannot afford to do without this book. --Reviewer from London, featured on the Amazon website

The information is clear, concise and extremely readable. All imaginable topics are covered from hypoglycaemia, through pregnancy and on to psychological issues! It is difficult to imagine anyone, including healthcare professionals, teachers and grandparents, not learning something helpful. --Practical Diabetes International

Peter GF Swift, Consultant Paediatrician, Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK
"The more I read of it, the more I think it is a remarkable resource reference for professionals and parents."

Miss Beverley Beresford, Coventry, UK
"Every question I have, the answer can be found in this book. I can honestly say I have never read such an excellent, detailed, easy - to - understand, book. It is not at all confusing with complicated terminology, like so many books about diabetes are."

Customer Reviews

Outshines ANY book on diabetes I have ever read! Superb!
The title is slightly misleading. Do not assume if you are an ADULT withdiabetes, this book isn't for you. It is!!! Yes, if you are a parent whohas a child with diabetes, this book is the one for you, but if, likemyself, you've got Type 1 diabetes, and are an adult, buy this book!
I developed Type 1 diabetes at the age of 17, in 1987. I managed to gethold of one of the first copies of this book, before it went on sale,through a medical rep, after hearing about it from Diabetes UK. That wasin 1998.
I cannot believe that someone can write such an indepth, factual, easy tounderstand, and superb book without having diabetes themselves, but thisprofessional, Ragnar, has.
I know nothing of the author, but all I can say is a HUGE Thank you tohim! For anyone out there with diabetes, whether it be newly diagnosed ornot, whether its you yourself that has the condition or a child of yours,go out and buy this! You will never need another diabetes book again; thiscontains every answer to every question you'll ever ask about thecondition!
You don't need to read it cover to cover; I have always used it as areference book whenever I've come across something with my diabetes that Idon't quite understand or want to know more about.
Absolute must for ALL diabetics! Superb!!!!!

Type 1 Diabetes in children, adolescents and young adults
This is an invaluable book for anyone who has Type 1 Diabetes or has a family member suffering from the condition. So why did I hesitate before buying it? Because, before I read it, I thought it would be just another book on diabetes, written in the same old formula by another health professional for whom diabetes is the day job while families with a diabetic child live with it day in, day out.

If that sounds cynical maybe it's the result of sitting in on too many sessions with the 'diabetes health care team.' However if they're getting to you too read Dr Ragnar Hanas' book. I've learnt considerably more from it than all the clinics and advice sessions that we've been obliged to attend put together. It should be recommended reading for anyone whose job it is to work with people suffering from diabetes or their families.

The writer's whole approach to the subject seems not only genuinely empathetic but illuminating. This book is packed full of information in a clearly laid out informative text. He is able to deliver medical information in a concise, accessible way. And that's the thing. He explains things. He doesn't assume patients won't get it so he'll just throw in some patronising prose. He covers everything thoroughly to help the reader make sense of the subject.

When our young son was diagnosed we were on holiday in Wales and met a wonderful nurse who helped us more than anyone else has since. In Dr Ragnar Hanas' book, underpinning the scholarship, there seems to be that same quality of giving hope and encouragement by treating families as people and not merely patients or data in some health service system.

The author advises that you don't need to read the almost 400 pages cover to cover - I did. As a parent with a sick child I would never recommend this book to another parent if it wasn't worth having. It definitely is worth having.

David Parker

Fantastic book a really helpful resource!
I can not recommend this book highly enough. I have used it many times, especially when, as is often the case, I can't get hold of anyone in the 'Medical Profession' and need to make a quick decision about my daughters health. My husband and I are on the committee of a support group for parents of children with diabetes and we always recommend this book to the parents of newly diagnosed children. A very helpful and easy to use book.