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What responsibilities does a parent have to take on when they have discovered that there child has been diagnosed with diabetes? Can you or your spouse handle the daily treatments needed in order to keep your child on his medications? What educational tools must you look for so that you can control the situation with ease and strength?

These are the questions that run through the minds of thousands of parents every year who’s children have become diabetic. When the child is diagnosed with diabetes, the entire family must take on a whole new role that was not expected. This is especially true of the parents.

As a parent of a child diabetic, your role now is not just that of a loving mother or father, you are now going to take on the responsibilities of a part-time doctor and dietitian. In other words, you have new tasks that lay ahead of you on a daily basis.

Here are examples of the responsibilities you will have to undertake now that your child has been diagnosed with diabetes:

1. The first thing you’ll need to do is to educate yourself on the signs and symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis, hypoglycemia, and hyperglycemia. Just how to recognize these symptoms is unique with every child. All kids have a different way of expressing how they feel when their blood glucose is either too high or too low. Some children become extremely quiet, while others act out in loud shouting and crying.

2. You will now have two administer insulin shots to your child on a daily basis. At first you will have to inject small amounts of rapid acting insulin so that you can wait to find out how much your child will eat. Once you get an understanding of how much he or she eats at each meal, you can adjust the insulin accordingly.

3. You will also have to learn how to measure your child’s blood glucose, as well as the urine ketones. It is essential to take very frequent measurements of blood glucose. This way you are stocked with as much information as possible to better control hypoglycemia. In order to get total control, most kids will need between three and seven measurements of blood glucose per day.