Choose Your Foods: Match Your Insulin to Your Carbs
Choose Your Foods: Match Your Insulin to Your Carbs
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and American Diabetes Association
Teach clients how to use a flexible insulin plan to match their insulin dose to the carbs they eat and how to adjust their insulin dose based on blood glucose level.
This education tool covers how insulin works in the body, types of insulin and treatment plans, and how to calculate mealtime insulin and correction insulin. Clients will also learn about testing patterns to check insulin doses along with the signs, symptoms, and treatment of hypoglycemia. An insulin dosing worksheet is provided for the diabetes educator to personalize a client's blood glucose target and insulin plan, and it shows a stepwise approach for calculating mealtime insulin. This booklet is an excellent follow-up to Choose Your Foods: Count Your Carbs.