As part of health awareness efforts to promote nutritional knowledge, and within the awareness programs organized by the hospital's Pediatrics Department to spread health education and strengthen self-care skills among patients and their families, an educational workshop on "Carbohydrate Counting for Children with Type 1 Diabetes" was held this morning in the Dr. Abdullah Al-Ahwal Hall in the Pediatrics Department. It was organized by the department's Technology Therapy Unit as part of its efforts to raise health awareness and enable parents to manage the disease as well as possible.
The workshop, supervised by pediatric specialist Dr. Moammar Makhlouf and attended by a number of specialists and doctors, focused on the correct methods of counting carbohydrates in daily meals and matching them to insulin doses.
It also covered how to read food labels and determine portion sizes accurately, with practical examples from daily life.
