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How Can We Have a Great Trip as Diabetics?
Being a person who suffers of diabetes doesn' t mean that you can' t travel anywhere you want as much as you desire. Although diabetes is an affection that involves many procedures and a special daily routine doesn't take you the right to go to different places. First of all, people who suffer from diabetes should plan their trip with about a…
Fibromyalgia and Insulin Resistance
Do you have symptoms that relate to an insulin imbalance? If you have fibromyalgia, look and see if you also have hypoglycemia, insulin resistance, or diabetes symptoms. These types of blood sugar imbalances can cause fibromyalgia pain to get worse. Blood sugar imbalances cause insulin absorption problems that can affect your health especially if…
Child's Diabetes - 6 Excellent Suggestions for Parents
You need to take care of your diabetic child as it has significant emotional and physiological impact on his or her life. Your child's daily routine, good and bad habits, forgetfulness and outright disregard for things that should be done, can all be supervised at home. However, situation is different at school. You have to believe and ensure that…
Diabetes Complications that Attack the Little Arteries
Most people that think of diabetes complications have strokes and heart attacks in mind. Do you know that there are multiple other diabetes complications out there that only doctors know about? Let’s change that and bring everyone up to date. Eye complications, foot complications, nerve complications and many more. Eye Complications Although…
Are You One Of Millions Who Don't Know You Have Diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects as many as 300 million people worldwide and 17 million Americans. Of the 17 million people with diabetes, about one-third of them don't even know they have it. Every year, additional cases are diagnosed. It affects over six percent of the population now, and it has been noted that nearly nine percent of…
Double Diabetes -- Placing Your Kids at Even More Risk
In some medical circles it's called Type 3 Diabetes. Teenagers and young adults diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, if overweight or obese, can develop type 2 diabetes later in life. It's a double whammy and the medical consequences of such a diagnosis don't look good. First, let's briefly cover the basics of diabetes. Diabetes is Elevated Blood…
The Byetta Story
People with diabetes 2 have beta cell dysfunction, the cells that make and release insulin, and a decreased beta cell mass due to apoptosis – death of beta cells. This has highlighted the role of incretin hormones GIP and GLP-1 in beta cell function, growth and development. The incretins are peptide hormones secreted by specific cells located in…
Check Those Feet
The mantra for all diabetics is “Check those feet, everyday, every way.” Healthcare professionals preach the message; articles scream it over and over. However, many diabetics don’t and won’t. My husband was one of those who didn’t believe he should and “foo, fooed” my suggestions that I should check his feet. For several weeks, R__ had been…
Glucose Control Made Simpler - Using an Insulin Pump
Diabetes management and glucose control can be a tough, challenging and painful ordeal. If you are a diabetic that must take several insulin shots on a daily basis, you probably know how unpleasant and inconvenient this task can become. Over the past few years, a high tech device called an insulin pump has revolutionized the way diabetics get…
Type 1 Diabetes-Sick Day Management Support During the Stomach Flu
First let me start by saying that over the years I have learned that Type 1 Diabetes is an unpredictable disease that I knew nothing about 5 years ago. That was before my 3 year old son was diagnosed. Since then I have had numerous experiences with doctors with different opinions on how to treat my child. I guess that is why a doctor is always…
Raising Happy Diabetic Kids
This is the first in a series of articles I am about to embark upon concerning this subject. As my family gets older and matures with this disease I think back to the early days and wonder why aren't we all on medication for depression? Why don't we have standing twice a week appointments with a psychiatrist? How did we end up so normal?(whatever…
What Exactly Is This Gestational Diabetes
Gestational diabetes is a temporary condition that occurs during pregnancy. It is one of the top health complications that a woman has to face during pregnancy. Indeed a double curse! If the woman had gestational diabetes during pregnancy then she is most likely to pass it on to the child. So, if a woman has gestational diabetes during pregnancy,…
Lifestyle Changes For Kids Suffering From Diabetes
Children grow fast. Diabetes in children is growing faster. Well, diabetes in children is a recent phenomenon. Anything that is a recent phenomenon, lead us to the question mark, why and from where this disease has cropped up? What are the reasons for its arrival? When the reasons for its arrival are identified, the plans for its departure can…
Diabetes Drug Actos Helps Prevent Fatty Liver Complications
In the Nov. 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, University of Texas researchers report that Actos reduced liver fat by 54 percent in people who had nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). NASH is a complication of fatty liver disease that can lead to liver failure. According to the American Liver Foundation, as many as 20 percent of…
How Do You Know The Difference Between Alzeimer's And Just Bad Memory?
One of the most common mistakes that people make concerning problems such as memory loss, disorientation, and the inability to follow instructions is that they are too quick to assume that the source of the problem is Alzheimer's disease. But many times the problem is something different than Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative…
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