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Diabetic Snacks For Kids
June 21st, 2010 | 
Author: Many parents’ worst nightmare is to have any type of disease diagnosed for any of their children. Diabetes happens to be one of those conditions where everyone has heard of it but very few actually understand it unless they must live with it on a day to day basis.
Because the news media, doctors or friends and family tend to talk about the “horror stories”, many people just do not realize it is a highly manageable condition with some time, energy and some education. Managing diabetes is like the pieces of a puzzle. Take all the pieces, arrange them in the correct order as if it was a set of building blocks and when finished, the end result yields a complete “design of excellence.”
Because your child’s nutrition habits has now become very important for the rest of their life, learning and finding some safe options for their snacks is of major importance. Every diabetic child has got to be taught the importance of eating well but also eating safe. This is especially true since diabetes is often described as a “silent killer.” This term references the fact high blood sugar levels over time will damage many of their internal organs. The pitfall here is very little to no outward symptoms are recognizable until it is actually too late to reverse the damage.
Diabetes – Symptoms of Hypoglycaemia
Hypoglycaemia is the term applied when the glucose levels in the blood are low. In diabetics, because, diabetes is raised levels of blood sugar, hypoglycaemia can occur because of medication bringing sugar levels too low.
Glucose is what gives the body energy, and is absorbed by the cells of the body. Insulin is the gatekeeper to the body’s cells, being the hormone that lets the glucose into the cells. When a person has no insulin, as in type 1 diabetes, no energy is provided to the body.
In type 2 diabetes, the person is “insulin resistant” and needs either drugs to make the insulin the body generates work harder, or extra insulin to allow the glucose to be properly absorbed.
Although your doctor will have prescribed drugs and perhaps insulin to combat high levels of blood sugar, it is not a precise science. Exercising or missing a meal for example can cause your blood sugars to drop dramatically, resulting in a “hypo”.
All people are all different, and diabetes is no exception. However, it is thought that, in general, a blood sugar level of 3.3mmol/l or less is a hypoglycaemic state for most people.