Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies [Paperback]

Alan L. Rubin MD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 5, 2008

Whether you have been living with type 1 diabetes for some time, or you have just discovered that your child is diabetic, there’s a lot you need to know about the new developments in treating, controlling, and living with this disease. Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies, explains everything you need to know and do to make living with type 1 diabetes easier and healthier.

This reassuring, plain-English guide helps you understand and mange the disease with tips on working with your doctor, administering insulin, developing a diet an exercise plan, and coping with illness and travel. You’ll find out about the latest technologies of blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, and get a handle on everything you need to do to keep yourself or your child healthy, active, and feeling good. Discover how to:

• Overcome short-term complications
• Eat a diabetes-friendly diet
• Use exercise to help control type 1 diabetes
• Handle school, work, and other activities
• Help your child maintain a high quality of life
• Prevent long-term complications
• Be healthier than your friends who don’t have diabetes
• Deal with the emotional and psychological effects of the disease
• Choose an insulin pump for yourself or your child
• Calculate insulin dosages

Anyone can live a long, healthy, and productive life with type 1 diabetes. Small Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies delivers every drop of information you need to make sure that you or your child can do just that.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

The latest on blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery

Your friendly guide to taking control of type 1 diabetes and living well

Do you have type 1 diabetes — or have a child who does? This plain-English,reassuring guide helps you understand and manage the disease, with tips on working with your doctor, administering insulin, developing a diet and exercise plan, and coping with illness and travel. You'll know just what to do so you or your child can stay healthy and feel good!

Discover how to:

• Overcome short-term complications

• Eat a diabetes-friendly diet

• Handle school, work, and other activities

• Help your child maintain a high quality of life

• Prevent long-term complications

About the Author

This is the fifth For Dummies book by Alan L. Rubin, MD. His previous books, Diabetes For Dummies, Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, Thyroid For Dummies, and High Blood Pressure For Dummies (all of which are now in second editions), have been major successes. Letters of praise from numerous readers verify the important role that Dr. Rubin’s books have played in their lives. The books have been translated into seven languages and adapted for readers in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Each of Dr. Rubin’s For Dummies books provides the latest information on every aspect of its subject while being written in an easy-to-understand format that’s full of humor and wisdom.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (February 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470178116
• ISBN-13: 978-0470178119
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #23 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > Blood Type Diets

More About the Author

I started writing books For Dummies in 1998 with Diabetes For Dummies. That has sold more than 1 million copies. With its success, I wrote Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, then Thyroid For Dummies, High Blood Pressure For Dummies, Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies, Prediabetes For Dummies and now Vitamin D For Dummies. The books have been translated into 16 languages and there are special editions for the UK, Canada and Australia.

Writing these books has been the source of many wonderful experiences, including a book signing for the Chinese edition in Beijing, China and numerous opportunities to speak before groups of doctors and patients. I recently traveled to Paris to discuss translations of other titles besides Diabetes For Dummies. I get many emails from grateful readers and readers with questions. I welcome general questions but can't answer specific questions.
I look forward to writing new books and bringing previous editions up-to-date.

In November, 2009 and December, 2009 respectively, I published the 3rd edition of Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies and a new book Prediabetes For Dummies. In June, 2011 I published Vitamin D For Dummies. This new book tells you everything you need to know to gain the benefits of vitamin D, not only for your bones but for cancer prevention, protection from infection and numerous other benefits.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars seems pointless August 16, 2010

By dananana

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

This is helpful for non-diabetics, particularly people who want to learn about a friend or relatives disease. Though much of the information is available on the websites of the big diabetes organizations. If you are an adult type 1 diabetic it is not very helpful as it is really written for the parents of a type 1 child. The problem is that parents of a type 1 child, will definitely need books that more effectively and thoroughly discuss the disease, treatments, diet.. and these books will, in all likelihood, have a general overview of the disease as well. Most books on diabetes do, and are almost always written for the general public. So the dummies book here seems pointless.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference for diabetics and their caregivers July 23, 2009

By Norm de Ploom

Format:Kindle Edition

Dr. Rubin is a practicing endocrinologist and diabetes specialist. Using the familiar "Dummies" format, Dr. Rubin efficiently covers the important information about Type 1 diabetes (or T1DM). He also summarizes relevant comparisons to Type 2 and "LADA" diabetes. Dr. Rubin's communication style is easy to comprehend. He minimizes medical jargon and explains complex medical processes in plain English.

The book contains an explanation of what diabetes is, the major symptoms, the complications that result from poor management, how to tell the different variations apart, and how treatment regimens differ. He goes through the major options for treatment, including medication and transplants. He covers attention to diet and exercise, which are critical to increasing the quality of life for patients.

He also covers the responsibilities of the diabetes caregiver, including how to minimize the risk of complications. He makes the point that diabetes is really a "family" disease.

Much of the book is oriented towards parents of diabetic children, since a majority of Type 1 patients are children. He devotes significant effort to assuring patients and caregivers that, although diabetes is a serious disease, it is not a death sentence with proper attention and care.

After reading the book, parents of diabetic children, and the patients themselves, at least will have an overview of their responsibilities, and how to seek additional information specific to their situations.

In all, this book is a modest amount of money for a lot of information packed inside. It is certainly a valuable addition to a diabetic's reference library.

5.0 out of 5 stars Type 1 for dummies January 26, 2013

By Lauren E Ramain

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This is a good book for reviewing and it has updated information that inspired me to try harder and count carbs. My mother found this book and loved it she said she had no idea that there was so much involved in being a type 1 diabetic. I became a diabetic before I was 21. It was not diagnosed until a month after I turned 21. I am 55 now and all I can say is I have to keep reading and reading and I still won't know everything I need to know. This book is easy to read and it is not only good for the diabetic himself but for the family to read and then maybe they will not be so judgmental...