DiabetesWhat tests you can have to monitor your diabetes condition? The following are the quick tips from America Diabetes Association:
• Get your A1c tested at least twice a year.
You may need it checked more often if you are not at your goal or if your treatment changes.
• Get a dilated eye exam every year.
Your doctor [...]
Diabetes is a silent killer. You never know what is happening in your body until you have reached critical point where your body starts to give you signals of diabetes. As a result, you will develop serious symptoms for diabetes.
Definitely early detection of diabetes is the best way to avoid its complication. The standard tests for [...]
Gestational diabetes is the term used for diabetes during pregnancy. It is a dangerous condition because it may cause a lot of complications to the baby. The best treatment is still the insulin injection. However, this brings problem to some pregnant mother who has phobia to the needle. That’s why researchers are finding alternative treatment for [...]
What is carbohydrate? When we looking under a microscope we discover that carbohydrates are simply long chains of sugars. Shorter chains were considered simple carbohydrates and longer chains, complex.
People used to believe that if you eat a simple sugar like glucose, fructose, maltose, or sucrose, your blood sugar will rise more rapidly because your body [...]
By Groshan Fabiola
There are two important types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The last is more common than the diabetes type 1, which is mostly found in younger persons. The second diabetes type develops mostly in people that are over 40 years old. Because it develops this late in ones life, this [...]
If you have diabetes, one of the most important things to know is to take care of your feet.
How Can Diabetes Cause Foot Problems?
Some people with diabetes develop complications. Two of the common complications, both of which can adversely affect your feet, are damage to nerves (neuropathy) and damage to blood vessels (vascular disease).
People with [...]
The American Diabetes Association adopted the following classification in 1979.
Type –1, insulin-dependent diabetes
Type-2, non insulin-dependent diabetes
There are two other kinds of diabetes, known as gestational diabetes and secondary diabetes. There is also a special kind of diabetes in India called malnutrition related diabetes.
Type-1 Insulin-Dependant Diabetes
This is the most severe form of diabetes. It [...]
