Diabetes Information and Treatment Guide

Most women with diabetes who become pregnant have Type 1 diabetes, because this is the type that affects younger women. However, increasing numbers of pregnant women with Type 2 diabetes are being seen.If you have diabetes and want to start a family, there are a number of things to consider. The key to a healthy pregnancy with diabetes is good blood sugar control before, during and after pregnancy. (more…)

Surely  it is normal and even healthy to feel a certain level of sadness, feeling deep levels of depression that seem to last for weeks at a time is a serious issue that needs immediate attention. Depression should not be taken lightly and just like stress, it can impact your diabetes in a very negative way. At this point you are not only suffering from one major disease (diabetes), now you have to deal with two medical conditions – depression being the second. (more…)

If you have type 1 diabetes then yes, you will have to at least control and balance your food intake with your insulin intake. But because new insulin medications are available, this means that you can eat almost anything you would like so long as you take your “short acting” insulin either immediately before, during, or after your meals. (more…)

To Being a diabetic increases your chance of hair loss. Diabetics are more prone to get skin infections and other fungal infections that can affect the scalp. Stress from the disease can also cause hair loss. Certain medicines that you may be taking for diabetes or other conditions can also cause your hair to fall out. (more…)

Diabetes manifests itself as type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes. People suffering from type 1 diabetes need to take insulin because their bodies do not make enough insulin. Generally, type 2 diabetes disease occurs in people after age of 40. Healthy food, regular exercise and weight reductions can lower blood sugar level in this kind of diabetes. In case these treatments do not work, you must take diabetes pills to lower your blood glucose. (more…)

Diabetes is generally a common disease. Symptoms of diabetes disease are well known but still several people are not aware of those signs or neglect them.

Do you identify followings traits with yourself?

Lately, you are visiting the toilet a lot. You keep feeling thirsty and usually keep feeling (more…)

Almost anyone can be afflicted with diabetes. It is a medical disorder that affects the blood sugar level of a person resulting to different complications. Amazingly, while diabetes can be prevented or slowed down, there are lots of people in America who has this disorder, around 25 million of them.

The human body generates insulin, a fluid that has the main task of maintaining the sugar (more…)

The Fact  of getting control of the disease of diabetes is knowing where you stand on certain critical control points. Knowing what these are and getting the right tests is most vital issue of managing your disease.

The information the test results provide feedback on how well you are controlling your (more…)

There are two ways here that doctors use to see how diabetes in a person is controlled. One major way to see how diabetes is controlled is by measuring the levels of glucose in your blood. The second way in assessing the control of diabetes is by measuring glycohemoglobin. Both these two diabetes methods have good and bad points, but (more…)

Food Therapy should be followed under the supervision from your doctor. It Is vital to Check your sugar level frequently so that sugar levels do not go beyond the recommended level

Foods to avoid

It is always advisable to avoid some foods here if you are diabetic such as refined sugar, (more…)