How We Can Help You Manage Diabetes -- 718.246.8603 or 718.246.8600

At the NYM Diabetes Resource Center we provide education and information
to help you understand what you need to do to manage your diabetes and why.
We also help you to implement the necessary lifestyle changes and offer the
complex level of management necessary to ensure that you are achieving
your goals.

We are also available to help parents of children with juvenile (Type I) diabetes
to understand and maintain the proper standard of care for their kids. We provide
education for both children and their parents so that parents can oversee their
child's diabetes while learning strategies for coping with the special stresses
associated with raising a child with the chronic illness.

Our certified diabetes educator is also familiar with the most current news about
diabetes treatment. Therefore, even if you've had diabetes for a while, you can
learn about the latest developments at the Center.

Download our brochure.

Home Blood Glucose Monitoring

Keeping the amount of glucose in your blood as near the normal level as
possible will keep you feeling good and can help to prevent or delay the
onset of diabetes-related side effects.

Our educator helps the newly diagnosed and veterans of diabetics master
blood glucose monitoring, which is the major tool for checking your diabetes
control. Experts believe that anyone with diabetes can benefit from regular
blood glucose testing.

Use of Hypoglycemic Agents

Oral hypoglycemic drugs control blood glucose in many Type II diabetes cases.
NYM educates and informs people regarding oral hypoglycemic treatment, including:

• Providing instructions about recognizing side effects
• Contraindications 
• Drug interactions

Insulin Administration Techniques

All individuals with Type I diabetes and some with Type II need to have regular
injections of insulin. Even relatively young children administer these injections
themselves. The ability to administer their own injections provides patients with
a high level of independence and empowerment.

At the Center, newly diagnosed patients with diabetes, or those recently
advised to take insulin injections, learn the technique of giving an injection.
Equally important, they learn to calculate the proper dose of insulin. Also,
the use of insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring techniques are
available to our patients.

Nutrition and Exercise -- Download our Healthy Eating Guide

For some patients with Type II diabetes, a change in eating and exercise habits
may be all that is necessary to achieve control. For all those with the disease,
good nutrition based on the diabetes food pyramid and increased physical fitness
are important components of the treatment plan.

At the Center, we provide the general information and principles that help patients
maintain control. We help entire families eat healthier. Our dietitian also works
closely with individual patients to help create healthy eating and fitness plans to
best meet that patient's specific preferences and life style.

Support Groups

Contact us:
Diabetes Resource Center
263 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
718.246.8600 or 718.246.8603
diabetes@nym.org