This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Ben H. Brouhard, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1983;137(8):787-794.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Caring for the child with insulin-dependent diabetes provides a continuing challenge (and too often frustration) for the physician. Although a new classification system (Table) provides a better system for categorizing the child with carbohydrate intolerance,¹ and much has been learned about genetic susceptibility² and viral causes of diabetes,³ the most pressing challenge to the physician is helping the child and family to live with the day-to-day treatment of the disease. In doing so, much time and effort are spent in monitoring various factors to maintain control of the disease, usually in an attempt to normalize the blood glucose level.

BLOOD GLUCOSE CONTROL

Because blood glucose control is dependent on injected insulin, either at intervals throughout the day or continuously through a pump device, the control of the blood glucose level is much more difficult in the insulin-dependent diabetic (type I) than the non-insulin-dependent diabetic (type II). This . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology/Diabetes, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology/Diabetes, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550 (Dr Brouhard).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?