Create a "sick day notebook" to help you keep track of everything when your child is sick. In your notebook, include:
- The doctor's guidelines including when to call
- Your diabetes care team's (D-team's) daytime and after-hours phone numbers
- A copy of your child's insurance card
- Sick day meal plans that deliver 50 grams of carbohydrates every 3-4 hours
- A list of over-the-counter medicines that do not interfere with insulin or blood glucose (BG) levels
- A record of BG readings, insulin dosages and carb counts of foods eaten
- Comics, poems, pictures or anything else that may help your child feel better
Create a "sick day notebook" to help you keep track of everything
when your child is sick. In your notebook, include: The doctor's
guidelines including when to call Your diabetes care team's
(D-team's) daytime and after-hours phone numbers A copy...
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American Diabetes Association answered:Create a "sick day notebook" to help you keep track of everything when your child is sick. In your notebook, include:
