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The impact of diabetes on family life [1]

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 11:04
Children need a healthy mother, not one with incapacitating complications, an unstable character due to the highs and lows of blood glucose levels, or who might endanger them by losing control while having a severe hypoglycaemic reaction. Children need a full-time caregiver. A responsible woman educated to take command of her diabetes can fulfil this role just as well as a woman without diabetes; sometimes even better.
Issue: 
Volume 47 | Special Issue [2]
Author: 
de Alva MarĂ­a [3]
Attachment: 
article_143_en.pdf [4]
Keywords: 
family, mother, Mexico
Section: 
Diabetes in Society [5]
Theme: 
Education [6]
People with diabetes [7]
Psychological issues [8]
Women [9]

Source URL: http://www.idf.org/diabetesvoice/articles/the-impact-of-diabetes-on-family-life

Links:
[1] http://www.idf.org/diabetesvoice/articles/the-impact-of-diabetes-on-family-life
[2] http://www.idf.org/issues/02/10/01/volume-47-special-issue
[3] http://www.idf.org/authors/177/de-alva-maria
[4] http://www.idf.org/sites/default/files/attachments/article_143_en.pdf
[5] http://www.idf.org/taxonomy/term/25
[6] http://www.idf.org/taxonomy/term/180
[7] http://www.idf.org/taxonomy/term/177
[8] http://www.idf.org/taxonomy/term/175
[9] http://www.idf.org/taxonomy/term/173