Resource Center
We've developed some easy-to-understand resources to help make living with diabetes a little easier. Just click on any brochure name to download and print out information on any topics that interest you.
Each Quick Tips booklet, information sheet, and tool kit supports one of the Healthy Habits of Living with Diabetes:
Meals
Quick Tips for Counting Your Carbohydrates. Using carb counting to help control blood sugar.
Movement
Quick Tips for Staying Fit. Finding the right activities to help you control blood sugar and manage diabetes.
Sports and Exercise Information Sheet. How to help a diabetic child make the most of sports and activities.
Weekly Exercise Recorder. Track your activity and how it affects your blood sugar each week.
Management
Back to School Tool Kit: Information about diabetes for school personnel.
Tool Kit Overview: Letter to Parents of Children with Diabetes. How to use the tool kit to help ensure that your child with diabetes receives the best treatment possible.
Tool Kit Overview: Letter to School Support Staff. Descriptions of all the tool kit components and why they're important.
Diabetes Information Sheet. An introduction to diabetes, blood sugar testing, insulin injections, and more for teachers and school staff.
504 Plan Information Sheet. Details about the federal law that protects children with diabetes from discrimination and about the accommodations a school must make.
Diabetes Medical Management Plan. Personalized details about your child's diabetes self-care plan, including blood glucose testing, insulin injections, insulin pump use, snacks, and more.
Hypo-/Hyperglycemia Quick-Reference Card. The signs of low blood sugar and high blood sugar, and how to treat them.
Sports and Exercise Information Sheet. How to help a child with diabetes make the most of sports and activities.
Quick Tips for Controlling Hypertension (High Blood Pressure). How diabetes and high blood pressure affect one another, and tips for lowering blood pressure.
Quick Tips for Controlling Your Cholesterol. Steps to lowering cholesterol through diet and exercise.
Quick Tips for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). Protecting yourself from heart attack and stroke when you have diabetes.
Quick Tips for Preventing Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). Avoiding heart disease when you have diabetes.
Quick Tips for Reducing Risks (Caring for your feet) For people with diabetes, proper foot care is an important part of the daily routine.
My Diabetes Checkpoints. Make sure you're getting the regular medical tests you need and record the results in one place.
A Practical Guide to Traveling with Diabetes People with diabetes know all about routines. Use these tips to bring them with you when you travel.
Emergency Diabetes Information Card Type and print your own information on this card and carry with you in case of an emergency (Information is deleted once the window is closed).
(Please set the Page Scaling property as "Shrink to Printable" under the Print settings for an optimized print).
Medical Certificate A printable doctor's note explaining that you have diabetes and the supplies you may need to have in your possession.
Packing List After reading through the materials, create your packing list here and print it out.
Phrase Booklet for Traveling with Diabetes This booklet provides terms and phrases you may need in several different languages that can help you when you travel to a foreign country.
Meter Safety Letters for Air Travel: Print out a letter declaring that your blood glucose monitoring system has been tested and found not to interfere with aircraft radio performance.
Air travel letter for ACCU-CHEK® Compact Plus, ACCU-CHEK® Compact, and ACCU-CHEK® Active meter users.
Air travel letter for ACCU-CHEK® Aviva and ACCU-CHEK® Advantage meter users.
Monitoring
Weekly Self-Monitoring Log Page. Print out this convenient blood sugar testing log to track your results week by week.
Modification
Quick Tips for Handling Illness. Creating a sick-day plan that includes diabetes medications, getting enough carbohydrates, blood sugar monitoring and ketone testing.
Quick Tips for Managing Stress. Dealing with the everyday stress of living with diabetes.