American standards of medical practice dictate that almost every diabetic will eventually be placed on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug, as soon as blood tests come back with an LDL number over 100 mg/dl two times in a row. But most diabetics, and many doctors, don’t realize that standard blood tests don’t even measure LDL, they [...]
Brittle diabetes treatment is fully discussed in the Annals of Endocrinology published in Paris. Lille University Hospital’s Endocrinology and Metabolism Department reported this under the title Management Strategies for Brittle Diabetes.
With the advent of SMBG (self monitoring of blood glucose), the term brittle diabetes treatment is not often heard although we still know it as [...]
While health insurance is important for everyone, it is extremely important to have medical insurance for diabetics. With regular visits to the doctor, lab tests, blood testing strips and medications, diabetics have constant costs related to their disease. These measures are important to keep the disease under control. Besides keeping the disease under control, diabetics [...]
There are two different types of diabetes; Type I and Type II. Type I Diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and very young adults. Type I Diabetes differs from Type II in that a person with Type I Diabetes does not produce insulin at all and insulin is needed to take sugar from the blood [...]
A diabetes bracelet can be one of the most helpful things that a diabetic individual can have. Primarily, it shows that the wearer is suffering from the condition so people can be prepared to support in whichever way possible should any untoward incident occur. Other people are still free to wear the bracelets to show [...]
If you’re diabetic, no one needs to tell you how important it is to eat properly. That’s why the American Diabetes Association developed a special diabetic food pyramid, just to help those of us who have special dietetic needs eat more healthfully.
First Step: Portion Control and Timing
What you eat when you have diabetes is critically [...]
If you recently have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, chances are your nutritional advice has fallen into one of two mutually exclusive categories:
Eat fewer carbs. Your body turns almost all carbohydrates into glucose either quickly or slowly, so to get your blood sugar levels down, eat less carbohydrate.
Eat more carbs. You have diabetes [...]
I started having blood sugar symptoms about four years ago. I noticed that I was unusually thirsty. Not the kind of thirsty a beer could take care of. It was the kind of thirsty that I wanted to drink something… anything. Water helped, but I practically drank a half gallon to get there. No matter [...]
While health insurance is important for everyone, it is extremely important to have medical insurance for diabetics. With regular visits to the doctor, lab tests, blood testing strips and medications, diabetics have constant costs related to their disease. These measures are important to keep the disease under control. Besides keeping the disease under control, diabetics [...]
There are two different types of diabetes; Type I and Type II. Type I Diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and very young adults. Type I Diabetes differs from Type II in that a person with Type I Diabetes does not produce insulin at all and insulin is needed to take sugar from the blood [...]
