[caption id="attachment_4657" align="alignleft" width="300"] Image from Clipart-Library[/caption] For all parents, Back to School season can be a chaotic time of year. Buying new supplies, finding new classrooms, and sometimes, even starting new schools can cause a lot of business, and even in some situations stress. However, for parents of kids with medical conditions, disabilities, or special needs, your Back to School preparations may also include lining up tutors, doctors appointments, speech therapy appointments, refilling extra medications to be kept with the school nurse, and more.

Most of us know someone living with diabetes—most commonly, type 2 diabetes. American Diabetes Alert Day is a day to bring attention to the risk factors associated with developing type 2 diabetes, which can in turn lead to a variety of health problems if not controlled with exercise, diet modifications and in some cases, medicines or insulin. Because the consequences of uncontrolled diabetes can be life-altering, such as kidney disease, neuropathy leading to amputations, and vision loss, it is important to be aware of your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, and what can be done to manage the risk—or control diabetes you already live with.

The American Diabetes Association has a quick screening su