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Diabetes

Welcome to the CHEO Diabetes Resource page. Our clinic specializes in children and youth with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and other rarer forms of diabetes including cystic fibrosis-related diabetes (CFRD) and steroid-induced diabetes. Our goal is to help children and teens with diabetes manage their medical, nutritional and psychosocial needs related to diabetes. We want to empower children and young adults with diabetes to live healthy lives.

In case of emergency, please call 911. This includes emergencies involving your child's diabetes.

For patients who are waiting for their first visit with the Diabetes clinic:

  • If you suspect your child or youth may have undiagnosed type 1 diabetes, please seek urgent medical help, either from CHEO's emergency department or another urgent care facility.
  • For everything else, please call your family doctor, pediatrician or visit your nearest walk-in clinic.

For patients who are being followed by the Diabetes clinic, you can contact CHEO Diabetes Educators.

  • Available everyday 8:00am to 3:00pm (responses within 2-3 business days)
  • Phone: 613-737-7600 ext. 2353,
  • Email: diabetesteam@cheo.on.ca
  • Through MyChart

Our Diabetes Educators can help you with:

  • Insulin adjustments
  • Carbohydrate counting
  • Learning insulin:carb ratios
  • Managing physical activity
  • Troubleshooting unexplained low or high blood sugars
  • Sick day management
  • Prescription refills
  • And more!
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Learn about diabetes

Below you will find a variety of resources to help you better understand, cope with and/or support someone with diabetes.

Diabetes and Nutrition-Related Websites:

Recipes:

Carb counting resources: 

  • Carbohydrate Counting for Recipes: Food

PDFs

Meal time routine: Blood Glucose Check and Insulin Injection

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Other Resources

Bolus Calculators
  • Diabetes:M
    • Free app that logs blood sugar, insulin doses, injection sites, physical activity, ketones levels, blood pressure, A1c and lipid panel
    • English and French
  • Ypsomed
    • Free app that logs blood sugar, carbohydrates, insulin doses, physical activity and comments.
    • English and French
  • My Sugr
    • Free app, allows you to transfer values from compatible blood sugar meters automatically into the application and obtain graphs.
    • English, French, and 25 other languages
Carbohydrate Counting
  • Nutrients Canada
    • Allows you to find the nutritional value of several foods from the Canadian Nutrient File (the most reliable Canadian data source).
    • English and French
  • Cronometer
    • Nutritional value of thousands of foods. Possibility to calculate the nutritional value of recipes. Possibility of scanning the bar code of certain foods to get their nutritional value and keep them in memory
  • My Fitness Pal  
    • Nutritional value of several foods. Possibility to create recipes and get their nutritional values. 
    • English and French (+18 more languages) Nutritional value of several foods.

Bant

  • From University Health Network
  • Free
  • Available from iTunes 

Blood Glucose Monitoring Tutorial For Teachers/Caregivers – CHEOvideos

Paediatric Diabetes Network – Illness Management Guidelines

Print as a PDF fact sheet

Disclaimer

These resources are for educational purposes only. If you have any questions, ask your health-care provider.

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