Enjoying Halloween When You Have Diabetes

For all of the costumes and cobwebs and carved pumpkins, Halloween is for most kids one big sugar rush. It’s all about the candy: whose house has the best selection, how much you can carry, and which pieces to eat first. But what about children (and grown-ups) with diabetes who want to participate without sending their blood glucose levels soaring?

Here’s some good news: Trick-or-treating isn’t off-limits. “Diabetes is just part of their whole life,” says Joanne Roney, RN, CDE, a certified diabetes educator with the Rush Adolescent Diabetes Program at Rush Children’s Hospital in Chicago. “We don’t want to prevent kids from having regular childhood experiences. It needs to be incorporated into their lives.”

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