How Diabetics Should Treat Other Bouts Of Illness.
When you have diabetes and then catch a cold or the flu, or get a stomach bug, it can be difficult to manage medication or insulin injections. The body is placed under tremendous physical stress when suffering from a cold, flu, or just about any oth[...]
Natural Diabetes Remedies - Why Home Remedies Work?
Thousands of people will use natural diabetes remedies to cure their diabetes this year! Though you may feel a little skeptical about this statement, it is a very true statement! Here is why! Did you know that you can naturally reverse and eventuall[...]
Top 7 Reasons To Use The I-port For Insulin Injections
7.) Quickly adheres to multiple places on the body: abdomen, thigh, back of the arm or hip. Since you can vary the sections of the body that will receive injections, you can help minimize scar tissue formation, bruising, and bleeding. 6.) Requires m[...]
The Obesity Epidemic And Juvenile Diabetes
The increasing obesity epidemic among children today is thought to be a leading cause in the increase in juvenile diabetes in this country today. While not everyone agrees on the causes and affects it is hard to argue with the continuing increase of[...]
Matching Insulin Syringe To Insulin Strength Is Crucial
Insulin vials are of different concentrations and commonly 40 U and 100 U insulin vials are available. 40 U insulin vial has 40 units of insulin in 1 ml while 100 U insulin vial has 100 units of insulin in 1 ml. To inject Insulin, 2 types of syringe[...]
Nutrition Standards For Juvenile Diabetics
The nutritional recommendations for juveniles with diabetes are much the same as the general population in this country. Children with diabetes need to eat a well balanced and healthy diet in order to keep their blood sugar levels in the normal rang[...]
Pregnancy And The Effects Of Diabetes
Maternal health and fetal complications are at a much greater risk in women with diabetes who are pregnant. Even the stress of a pregnancy can bring about gestational diabetes, which is a form of glucose intolerance that begins during the pregnancy[...]
Recognizing Diabetic Symptoms
For most people the symptoms of diabetes do not seem very serious when they first experience them. In fact a great majority of diabetics go undiagnosed. There is an estimated 17 million diabetics in the United States alone and it is estimated that 5[...]