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Diabetes (type 1 and type 2) in children and young people: diagnosis and management

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  • Reference number: NG18
  • Published:  01 August 2015
  • Last updated:  11 May 2023
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  • Type 2 diabetes in children and young people: the care you should expect
  • Your type 2 diabetes team
  • What your type 2 diabetes team will do
  • Involving your parents or carers in your care for type 2 diabetes
  • Finding out if you have type 2 diabetes
  • Diet and exercise
  • Blood and plasma glucose
  • Taking medicine for type 2 diabetes
  • Insulin for type 2 diabetes
  • Learning about type 2 diabetes
  • High blood glucose (hyperglycaemia) in type 2 diabetes
  • Coping with type 2 diabetes
  • Other health problems caused by type 2 diabetes
  • Changes in your type 2 diabetes care when you become an adult
  • Other groups that can help

What your type 2 diabetes team will do

Your diabetes team should tell you about type 2 diabetes, any medicine you need to take, and how to have a healthy diet and do regular exercise.

If you have questions or are worried about your diabetes, you can ask your team for help. You should be given a phone number you can use to call your diabetes team. If you need help urgently you should be able to call them at any time of the day or night.

This page was last updated: 26 August 2015


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