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        • Contraception
          • Contraceptive choices
          • Sexually transmitted infections
        • Diabetes and pregnancy risks
          • Blood glucose levels and pregnancy
        • Unplanned pregnancy
        • Planning for pregnancy
          • Before you fall pregnant, for women with type 2 diabetes
        • Eating well
          • Healthy eating in pregnancy
          • Staying active during pregnancy
          • A healthy weight before and during pregnancy
        • Diabetes complications
          • Diabetes complications during pregnancy, for women with type 2 diabetes
          • Pre-pregnancy screening
        • Diabetes during pregnancy
          • Blood glucose monitoring during pregnancy, for women with type 2 diabetes
          • High blood pressure and pre-eclampsia
          • Hypoglycaemia during pregnancy, for women with type 2 diabetes
          • Medical tests
          • Morning sickness, for women with type 2 diabetes
          • Sick days during pregnancy, for women with type 2 diabetes
          • Insulin during pregnancy, for women with type 2 diabetes
        • Labour and birth
        • After your baby is born
        • Breastfeeding
          • Blood glucose levels and breastfeeding
          • Breastfeeding and diabetes
          • Medication and breastfeeding, for women with type 2 diabetes
        • Your emotional wellbeing
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      • Pregnancy planning checklist
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        • Understanding type 1 diabetes
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        • Understanding gestational diabetes
        • Understanding pre-diabetes
        • Blood glucose monitoring
        • Continuous glucose monitoring
        • Continuous and flash glucose monitoring device summary and compatibility chart
        • Starting insulin booklet
        • Adjusting to life with diabetes
        • Alcohol and type 1 diabetes
        • Alcohol
        • Alternative sweeteners
        • Audit checklist for aged care residents
        • Audit checklist for aged care residents
        • Caring for someone with diabetes
        • Coeliac disease and diabetes
        • Concerns about starting insulin (for people with type 2 diabetes)
        • Continuous glucose monitoring for children
        • Diabetes and anxiety
        • Diabetes and depression
        • Diabetes and disordered eating
        • Diabetes and driving
        • Diabetes and emotional health
        • Diabetes distress
        • Diabetes management in aged care
        • Diabetes-related complications
        • Drug use and type 1 diabetes
        • Eating out
        • Fear of hypoglycaemia
        • Gestational diabetes: life after gestational diabetes 
        • Gestational diabetes: caring for yourself and your baby
        • Having a healthy baby guide for women with type 2 diabetes
        • Having a healthy baby guide for women with type 1 diabetes
        • Healthy eating as you age
        • Healthy meal ideas
        • Healthy snacks
        • Hints for healthy cooking
        • Information for people with diabetes
        • Insulin
        • Looking after your dental health
        • Looking after your eyes
        • Looking after your feet
        • Looking after your heart
        • Looking after your kidneys
        • Managing diabetes as you age
        • Making healthy food choices
        • Managing hypoglycaemia
        • Managing sick days for type 1 diabetes
        • Managing sick days for type 2 diabetes
        • Medications for type 2 diabetes
        • Moving on up to adult health care services
        • Peer support for diabetes
        • Physical activity
        • Pregnancy and diabetes
        • Polycystic ovary syndrome
        • Sexual health and diabetes
        • Steroid medications and diabetes
        • Surgery and hospital stays
        • The glycemic index
        • Travel and type 1 diabetes
        • Travel
        • Understanding food labels
        • You and your health care team as you age
        • Your diabetes annual cycle of care
      • Request a resource
    • Information in your language
      • Arabic – العربية
      • Bengali – বাঙালি
      • Chinese (simplified) – 简体中文
      • Chinese (traditional) – 繁體中文
      • Dari – درى
      • Farsi – فارسی
      • Greek – Ελληνικά
      • Hindi – हिंदी
      • Italian – Italiano
      • Karen
      • Khmer – ភាសាខ្មែរ
      • Korean – 한국어
      • Macedonian – Македонски
      • Nepali – नेपाली
      • Punjabi – ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
      • Samoan – Faasamoa
      • Sinhalese – සිංහල
      • Somali – Soomaali
      • Spanish – Español
      • Tagalog
      • Tamil – தமிழ்
      • Thai – ภาษาไทย
      • Tongan – lea faka-Tonga
      • Turkish – Türkçe
      • Urdu – اردو
      • Vietnamese – Việt
    • Newly diagnosed
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  • Living with diabetes
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    • About you
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        • What is diabetes?
        • What do I need to do?
        • Why take medicine?
        • Why me?
        • Women
        • Resources
        • Why join the NDSS?
      • Caring for someone with diabetes
      • Living in rural and remote areas
      • Older people with diabetes
      • People from diverse backgrounds
      • Young people with diabetes
        • Type 1 diabetes
        • Type 2 diabetes
        • What is diabetes?
        • What is CGM?
        • Living with diabetes
        • Gestational diabetes
        • From child to adult
        • Young women
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
        • Resources
    • Managing your health
      • Kidneys and bladder
      • Blood pressure
      • Contraception
        • Contraceptive choices
      • Cholesterol
      • Coeliac disease
      • Complementary medicines
      • Diabetes health checks
      • Exercise
      • Eyes
      • Feet
      • Heart disease
      • Mental health
      • Natural disaster and emergency plan
        • Emergency questions
      • Nutrition
        • Glycemic index
        • Between-meal snacks
        • Alcohol
        • Eating out
        • Healthy eating
        • Modifying recipes
        • Diabetes and fasting
        • Weight management
      • Sexual health
        • Sexually transmitted infections
      • Sick days
      • Skin
      • Your health care team
    • Managing your diabetes
      • Blood glucose monitoring
      • Continuous and flash glucose monitoring
        • Type 1 diabetes: aged under 21 years
        • Type 1 diabetes: aged 21 years and older with valid concessional status
        • Type 1 diabetes: pregnancy planning/pregnancy/post-pregnancy
        • Conditions similar to type 1 diabetes: aged under 21 years
      • Hypoglycaemia
      • Ketoacidosis
      • Medications
        • Insulin
        • Non-insulin injectable
        • Tablets
    • Driving and travel
      • Driving and diabetes
      • Travel and diabetes
        • Travelling by air
      • Visiting or moving to Australia
  • About the NDSS
    • About the NDSS
    • Contact us
    • New registrations
    • Manage your registration
      • Request a new NDSS registration card
      • Update your details
    • NDSS forms
    • National Gestational Diabetes Register
      • Update your details with the National Gestational Diabetes Register
    • Changes to the NDSS
      • Changes to the NDSS from 6 February 2019
      • Changes to the NDSS from 9 November 2018
      • Changes to the NDSS from 1 April 2017
      • Changes to the NDSS from 1 July 2016
    • News
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    • Facts and figures
      • Australian Diabetes Map
      • Diabetes data snapshots
  • Services
    • Services
    • NDSS Helpline
    • Diabetes organisations (NDSS Agents)
    • Support programs
      • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
      • Type 2 diabetes and me online course
      • Annual cycle of care screening
      • Beat it
      • Camps
      • Carbohydrate counting
      • Connect with diabetes
      • DESMOND
      • FootForward
      • Diabetes in Schools
      • KeepSight
      • Diabetes pregnancy symposium
      • Insulin pump
      • Live your life
      • Living with insulin
      • OzDAFNE
      • Peer support
      • Programs in other languages
      • Ready, set, go, let’s move
    • Online Services Directory
    • Diabetes research
      • Access to NDSS data
      • Participate in diabetes research
  • Products
    • Products
    • NDSS Access Points
    • Insulin pump consumables
    • Blood glucose monitoring strips
    • Pen needles / syringes
    • Continuous and flash glucose monitoring products
  • Health professionals
    • For health professionals
    • Changes to the NDSS for health professionals
      • Changes to some NDSS products from 1 December 2018
    • Resources to support health professionals
      • Health professionals: Applying for access to the CGM Initiative through the NDSS
      • Health professionals: Applying for extended access to CGM and Flash GM products
        • Helpful hints for providing supporting documentation for extended access applications (for planning pregnancy in type 1 diabetes)
    • Support services for health professionals
      • Online learning for health professionals
    • For Access Points
      • Changes to the NDSS for NDSS Access Points
      • How to become an NDSS Access Point
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National Diabetes Services Scheme - Logo Helpline
  • About diabetes
    • About diabetes
    • Type 1 diabetes
    • Type 2 diabetes
      • Type 2 diabetes in children and young adults
    • Gestational diabetes
      • Gestational diabetes FAQs
      • Understanding gestational diabetes
    • Pregnancy
      • Type 1 diabetes
        • Contraception
          • Contraceptive choices
          • Sexually transmitted infections
        • Risks
          • Blood glucose levels and pregnancy
        • Unplanned pregnancy
        • Planning for pregnancy
        • Eating well
          • Healthy eating in pregnancy
          • Staying active during pregnancy
          • A healthy weight before and during pregnancy
        • Complications
          • Pre-pregnancy screening
          • Diabetes complications during pregnancy
        • Diabetes during pregnancy
          • Blood glucose monitoring during pregnancy
          • High blood pressure and pre-eclampsia
          • Hypoglycaemia during pregnancy
          • Insulin changes
          • Ketoacidosis
          • Medical tests
          • Morning sickness
          • Sick days
        • Labour and birth
        • After your baby is born
        • Breastfeeding
          • Breastfeeding and diabetes
          • Blood glucose levels and breastfeeding
        • Your emotional wellbeing
          • Postnatal depression
          • Emotional health
          • Emotional support
          • Pregnancy loss
      • Type 2 diabetes
        • Contraception
          • Contraceptive choices
          • Sexually transmitted infections
        • Diabetes and pregnancy risks
          • Blood glucose levels and pregnancy
        • Unplanned pregnancy
        • Planning for pregnancy
          • Before you fall pregnant, for women with type 2 diabetes
        • Eating well
          • Healthy eating in pregnancy
          • Staying active during pregnancy
          • A healthy weight before and during pregnancy
        • Diabetes complications
          • Diabetes complications during pregnancy, for women with type 2 diabetes
          • Pre-pregnancy screening
        • Diabetes during pregnancy
          • Blood glucose monitoring during pregnancy, for women with type 2 diabetes
          • High blood pressure and pre-eclampsia
          • Hypoglycaemia during pregnancy, for women with type 2 diabetes
          • Medical tests
          • Morning sickness, for women with type 2 diabetes
          • Sick days during pregnancy, for women with type 2 diabetes
          • Insulin during pregnancy, for women with type 2 diabetes
        • Labour and birth
        • After your baby is born
        • Breastfeeding
          • Blood glucose levels and breastfeeding
          • Breastfeeding and diabetes
          • Medication and breastfeeding, for women with type 2 diabetes
        • Your emotional wellbeing
          • Postnatal depression
          • Pregnancy loss
          • Pregnancy and emotional health
          • Emotional support
      • Support
        • Supporting your partner
        • Supporting your family member or friend
        • Pregnancy support services
      • Plan for the Best Start newsletter
        • Featured articles 1
        • Featured articles 2
        • Featured articles 3
        • Featured articles 4
        • Featured articles 5
        • Featured articles 6
        • Featured articles 7
        • Featured articles 8
        • Featured articles 9
        • Featured articles 10
      • Frequently asked questions
      • Pregnancy planning checklist
      • Resources
    • Information and resources
      • Find a resource
        • Understanding type 1 diabetes
        • Understanding type 2 diabetes
        • Understanding gestational diabetes
        • Understanding pre-diabetes
        • Blood glucose monitoring
        • Continuous glucose monitoring
        • Continuous and flash glucose monitoring device summary and compatibility chart
        • Starting insulin booklet
        • Adjusting to life with diabetes
        • Alcohol and type 1 diabetes
        • Alcohol
        • Alternative sweeteners
        • Audit checklist for aged care residents
        • Audit checklist for aged care residents
        • Caring for someone with diabetes
        • Coeliac disease and diabetes
        • Concerns about starting insulin (for people with type 2 diabetes)
        • Continuous glucose monitoring for children
        • Diabetes and anxiety
        • Diabetes and depression
        • Diabetes and disordered eating
        • Diabetes and driving
        • Diabetes and emotional health
        • Diabetes distress
        • Diabetes management in aged care
        • Diabetes-related complications
        • Drug use and type 1 diabetes
        • Eating out
        • Fear of hypoglycaemia
        • Gestational diabetes: life after gestational diabetes 
        • Gestational diabetes: caring for yourself and your baby
        • Having a healthy baby guide for women with type 2 diabetes
        • Having a healthy baby guide for women with type 1 diabetes
        • Healthy eating as you age
        • Healthy meal ideas
        • Healthy snacks
        • Hints for healthy cooking
        • Information for people with diabetes
        • Insulin
        • Looking after your dental health
        • Looking after your eyes
        • Looking after your feet
        • Looking after your heart
        • Looking after your kidneys
        • Managing diabetes as you age
        • Making healthy food choices
        • Managing hypoglycaemia
        • Managing sick days for type 1 diabetes
        • Managing sick days for type 2 diabetes
        • Medications for type 2 diabetes
        • Moving on up to adult health care services
        • Peer support for diabetes
        • Physical activity
        • Pregnancy and diabetes
        • Polycystic ovary syndrome
        • Sexual health and diabetes
        • Steroid medications and diabetes
        • Surgery and hospital stays
        • The glycemic index
        • Travel and type 1 diabetes
        • Travel
        • Understanding food labels
        • You and your health care team as you age
        • Your diabetes annual cycle of care
      • Request a resource
    • Information in your language
      • Arabic – العربية
      • Bengali – বাঙালি
      • Chinese (simplified) – 简体中文
      • Chinese (traditional) – 繁體中文
      • Dari – درى
      • Farsi – فارسی
      • Greek – Ελληνικά
      • Hindi – हिंदी
      • Italian – Italiano
      • Karen
      • Khmer – ភាសាខ្មែរ
      • Korean – 한국어
      • Macedonian – Македонски
      • Nepali – नेपाली
      • Punjabi – ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
      • Samoan – Faasamoa
      • Sinhalese – සිංහල
      • Somali – Soomaali
      • Spanish – Español
      • Tagalog
      • Tamil – தமிழ்
      • Thai – ภาษาไทย
      • Tongan – lea faka-Tonga
      • Turkish – Türkçe
      • Urdu – اردو
      • Vietnamese – Việt
    • Newly diagnosed
    • Pre-diabetes
    • Other types of diabetes
  • Living with diabetes
    • Living with diabetes
    • About you
      • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
        • What is diabetes?
        • What do I need to do?
        • Why take medicine?
        • Why me?
        • Women
        • Resources
        • Why join the NDSS?
      • Caring for someone with diabetes
      • Living in rural and remote areas
      • Older people with diabetes
      • People from diverse backgrounds
      • Young people with diabetes
        • Type 1 diabetes
        • Type 2 diabetes
        • What is diabetes?
        • What is CGM?
        • Living with diabetes
        • Gestational diabetes
        • From child to adult
        • Young women
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
        • Resources
    • Managing your health
      • Kidneys and bladder
      • Blood pressure
      • Contraception
        • Contraceptive choices
      • Cholesterol
      • Coeliac disease
      • Complementary medicines
      • Diabetes health checks
      • Exercise
      • Eyes
      • Feet
      • Heart disease
      • Mental health
      • Natural disaster and emergency plan
        • Emergency questions
      • Nutrition
        • Glycemic index
        • Between-meal snacks
        • Alcohol
        • Eating out
        • Healthy eating
        • Modifying recipes
        • Diabetes and fasting
        • Weight management
      • Sexual health
        • Sexually transmitted infections
      • Sick days
      • Skin
      • Your health care team
    • Managing your diabetes
      • Blood glucose monitoring
      • Continuous and flash glucose monitoring
        • Type 1 diabetes: aged under 21 years
        • Type 1 diabetes: aged 21 years and older with valid concessional status
        • Type 1 diabetes: pregnancy planning/pregnancy/post-pregnancy
        • Conditions similar to type 1 diabetes: aged under 21 years
      • Hypoglycaemia
      • Ketoacidosis
      • Medications
        • Insulin
        • Non-insulin injectable
        • Tablets
    • Driving and travel
      • Driving and diabetes
      • Travel and diabetes
        • Travelling by air
      • Visiting or moving to Australia
  • About the NDSS
    • About the NDSS
    • Contact us
    • New registrations
    • Manage your registration
      • Request a new NDSS registration card
      • Update your details
    • NDSS forms
    • National Gestational Diabetes Register
      • Update your details with the National Gestational Diabetes Register
    • Changes to the NDSS
      • Changes to the NDSS from 6 February 2019
      • Changes to the NDSS from 9 November 2018
      • Changes to the NDSS from 1 April 2017
      • Changes to the NDSS from 1 July 2016
    • News
    • Reports
    • Facts and figures
      • Australian Diabetes Map
      • Diabetes data snapshots
  • Services
    • Services
    • NDSS Helpline
    • Diabetes organisations (NDSS Agents)
    • Support programs
      • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
      • Type 2 diabetes and me online course
      • Annual cycle of care screening
      • Beat it
      • Camps
      • Carbohydrate counting
      • Connect with diabetes
      • DESMOND
      • FootForward
      • Diabetes in Schools
      • KeepSight
      • Diabetes pregnancy symposium
      • Insulin pump
      • Live your life
      • Living with insulin
      • OzDAFNE
      • Peer support
      • Programs in other languages
      • Ready, set, go, let’s move
    • Online Services Directory
    • Diabetes research
      • Access to NDSS data
      • Participate in diabetes research
  • Products
    • Products
    • NDSS Access Points
    • Insulin pump consumables
    • Blood glucose monitoring strips
    • Pen needles / syringes
    • Continuous and flash glucose monitoring products
  • Health professionals
    • For health professionals
    • Changes to the NDSS for health professionals
      • Changes to some NDSS products from 1 December 2018
    • Resources to support health professionals
      • Health professionals: Applying for access to the CGM Initiative through the NDSS
      • Health professionals: Applying for extended access to CGM and Flash GM products
        • Helpful hints for providing supporting documentation for extended access applications (for planning pregnancy in type 1 diabetes)
    • Support services for health professionals
      • Online learning for health professionals
    • For Access Points
      • Changes to the NDSS for NDSS Access Points
      • How to become an NDSS Access Point
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