We have various short videos developed by the Diabetes Team, and other online resources and technology to help you manage your diabetes.
Videos
- Managing activity and exercise with type 1 diabetes
What it covers: this video explains how to manage your insulin doses and blood sugar levels safely when exercising. Download our leaflet on managing activity and exercise with insulin. - A refresher to Carbohydrate counting
What it covers: this video is for people who have previously carbohydrate counted and have an insulin to carbohydrate ratio. If you do not have an insulin to carb ratio and are interested in carbohydrate counting, please get in touch with the Diabetes Dietitians to discuss our online course. For written information download our workbook. - Lipohypertrophy and injection sites
What it covers: this video covers injection sites, what lipo’s are and how to feel them - Getting your correction factor right
What it covers: if you use a correction factor to manage your blood sugar levels the video explains how to check if your correction factor is right - Checking your insulin to carb ratio
What it covers: if you use an insulin to carb ratio the video covers how to check it is correct and how to change it - Treating Hypos appropriately
What it covers: the correct hypo treatment and times for taking hypo treatments. If you have a severe hypo that requires assistance to treat, someone may need to use your Glucagon pen. Read more about what it is, how it works and how to use it. Share this with your friends and family in case of an emergency. - Checking background/basal insulin
What it covers: how to check your background long acting insulin is correct and keeping your blood sugars stable - Avoiding overnight hypos
What it covers: how to avoid hypo’s overnight by adjusting your insulin - Getting the morning blood glucose on target
What it covers: how to get your morning fasting blood glucose levels in target
Online resources
- 10 steps to improving your diabetes control
- Run sweet – website on exercise and insulin
- Diabetes My Way – an NHS Scotland interactive diabetes website to help support people who have diabetes and their family and friends. You can view your own up-to-date diabetes clinic results and find leaflets, videos and educational tools to help you manage your condition more effectively.
- Diabetes UK – information for Type 1 diabetes
- Green Prescribing in Diabetes – This information sheet has been produced to support switching to reusable insulin delivery devices which reduce the amount of waste produced from diabetes management.
Available technology
- TickleFlex – An insulin injection aid. Attaches to the end of your insulin pen to distract and secure the skin when injecting.
- mylife – The mylife app can import the therapy data from the mylife YpsoPump and the mylife Unio Neva / mylife Unio Cara blood glucose meter via Bluetooth. It can also act as a bolus calculator for managing carb counting as well as tracking meals, exercise and insulin delivery.