Diabetes resources

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.

Contact information

Emergency contacts

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.

CHEO diabetes educators

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!

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 overview

What is Diabetes? - AboutKidsHealth

Types of diabetes - AboutKidsHealth

Type 1 diabetes: Causes and symptoms - AboutKidsHealth

Type 2 diabetes: Causes and symptoms - AboutKidsHealth

Diabetes treatment

What is insulin? Insulin in diabetes management - AboutKidsHealth

Types of insulin and their action times: Insulin Action Chart: Types of insulins - Diabetes.ca

Insulin Injection technique: Pens and cartridges - AboutKidsHealth

Insulin injection sites: Insulin injections: Selecting the injection site - AboutKidsHealth

Guidelines for making insulin adjustments - AboutKidsHealth

Hypoglycemia management

Hyperglycemia management

What is diabetic ketoacidosis? AboutKidsHealth

Hyperglycemia Symptoms: DQ_Hyper_eng_symptomes.pdf

Diabetes and nutrition

Diabetes and Nutrition-Related Websites:

Healthy Eating for Kids and Youth with Diabetes
Carbohydrate Counting: Diabetes Nutrition: Carbohydrate Counting and Planning for Meals and Snacks | SickKids - YouTube
Healthy eating and diabetes: Healthy eating - Diabetes Canada
Waltzing the Dragon Link: FOOD & EXERCISE – Waltzing The Dragon Inc.

Recipes:

Diabetes Canada Recipes: Recipes - Diabetes Canada
Diabetes Community: My Diabetes Care Community
Canada's Food Guide: Search recipes - Canada's Food Guide

Carb counting resources:

Basic Carbohydrate Counting: Basic Carbohydrate Counting

Health Canada Nutrient Value of Some Common Foods: nvscf-vnqau-eng.pdf

Canadian Nutrient File: Canadian Nutrient File (CNF) - Search by food

Carbohydrate Counting for Recipes: Food

Carb factors for various foods : carb_factors_for_various_foods_pt.pdf

Pocket Guide to Dining Out (Diabetes Quebec): Your Pocket Guide to Dining Out | Diabetes Québec

Calorie King : Food Nutrition Facts and Free Calorie Counter | CalorieKing

Recipe Analysis via Cronometer : Cronometer

Diabetes at school

PDFs

Meal time routine: Blood Glucose Check and Insulin Injection

Other resources

Websites

Apps

Apps for T1D - Support

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

YouTube

Blood Glucose Monitoring Tutorial For Teachers/Caregivers – CHEOvideos

Illness management guidelines

Paediatric Diabetes Network – Illness Management Guidelines

Disclaimer

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