Do you know why diabetes is such a menace? It is because diabetes can affect many other organs in the body giving rise to complications. One such serious complication is diabetic retinopathy which affects eyes. So if you have been diagnosed with diabetes here are few things you should do to take care of your [...]
You may think that diabetes is the worst medical condition on earth. Well, to be frank, it could be but only with your help. So if you are determined to be in control of the situation, you could still maintain balance and lead a perfectly normal life style. How is it that you contribute to [...]
Many of us that are suffering from diabetes have tools that help us to determine our health at any particular time. At the top of these tools is our glucose meter, something that we can use in order to determine our sugar level, any time that we feel that it is necessary. Many of us [...]
Increasing risk of vaginal yeast infection is one of the major effects of diabetes in women. Yeast is a common type of micro organism that lives in human body. It feeds on sugars called glycogen and glucose. When you have diabetes more of these sugars are available to yeast in your blood and body tissue [...]
No one likes being sick and if you are diabetic, you have additional worries, but taking measures to control your sugar levels and being in touch with a doctor will help you cope up with illness easily. Sick days can make blood sugars hard to control. When a person becomes ill, their body fights the [...]
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes is caused when the pancreas does not produce enough or absolutely no insulin at all. Diabetes can also be caused when the insulin produced is ineffective. Diabetes can be of three kinds. The type1 diabetes, the type 2 diabetes and the gestational diabetes. The causes of diabetes in these [...]
Are you 45 years old or more? Along with the age factor do you also happen to be overweight? Is your blood pressure somewhat between 140/90 and more? Your good cholesterol, HDL, is 35 or lower and your bad cholesterol is 250 or more? Your siblings or parents have diabetes or your family background is [...]
For all diabetes patients it is absolutely crucial to know about the disease of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. The patients keeping a record of their blood glucose levels must know how to treat and in fact also recognize the two conditions of hypoglycemia and Hypoglycemia Hypoglycemia is a condition where the patients suffer from low [...]
Gestational Diabetes affects pregnant women only. You may not have had pregnancy previously, yet you may develop it during advanced stages of pregnancy. About 2%-3% of pregnant women suffer from it. Gestational diabetes doesn’t set before second stage of pregnancy. It generally goes away on its own after the baby is born. This is the [...]
It is frightening and distressing when you first come to know that you or your loved one has diabetes type 1 or Juvenile diabetes. You keep hearing of “diabetes type 1 is being a slow killer” and so on. But there is no real need to panic. It is understandable that you will be worried [...]
You may wonder what exactly the term pre diabetes means. Pre diabetes is actually the stage before diabetes. When you are at this stage, your blood glucose level is slightly higher than normal though medically speaking you don’t have diabetes yet. Pre diabetes leads to type 2 diabetes within 3 years in 11% of the [...]
