Diabetes

http://www.diabetes-diabetic-diet.com/diabetic_food.htm is a good reference about the diabetic food chart. It lists the foods one can consume if they have diabetes and all the calories and other nutrition info in the food.

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There can be adverse effects on the baby if the gestational diabetes is very severe. Your health care provider can help you out there. Often though, most cases can be corrected with exercise and diet. The good news is that gestational diabetes can actually aid in the development of some key systems in the baby. For example in the babies lungs very little surfactant is produced, which is a chemical thatallows the lungs to fully open after birth. The increased levels of cortisol from the mother experienced during gestational diabetes increases this production of surfactant. Sometimes letting nature run its course here can help in the longs run.

Well, diabetics do not literally eat a 'lump of sugar', but they do eat glucose tablets, which is basically all sugar (but in an edible form). If their blood sugar level is low, they eat the glucose tablet (as you refer to as the 'lump of sugar'), and the sugar (glucose is the same thing as sugar, just a different name) from the glucose tablet increases the blood sugar levels in that person's body, but it does not take immediate affect. The glucose tablets will then increase the blood sugar levels, thereby stabilizing the body's condition. (Having low blood sugar can lead to fainting, so they take it to keep from fainting.)

Diabetics who need to use insulin can become hypoglycemic and require more sugar to balance excess insulin.

Yes, children can actually have both types.

Type 1 diabetes is more prevalent among children and teenagers, and type 2 is more common among adults, but type 2 can be found in some children.

The American Diabetes Association explains that type 1 diabetes is recognized as the inability to produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that converts starches and sugars into energy for your body. This type of diabetes is most often diagnosed in young adults and children giving it its moniker "juvenile diabetes." Some common symptoms associated with type 1 are: unusual thirst, abnormal weight loss, extreme hunger, intense fatigue, irritability, and frequent urination. Early detection can greatly reduce later complications. However, because many of these symptoms seem harmless, often a diagnosis goes undetected.

Type 1 juvenile diabetes is a chronic disease that effects juveniles and causes high levels of sugar in their blood.

I am a 36 year old female that has an idiopathic peripheral neuropathy. I have had this disease since 1999. Not only is this disease physically draining it is mentally draining as well. It causes ulcers, blisters, toenail loss, chronic pain, and for me depression. I can no longer work because I can't stand or sit for long periods of time..what job does that leave? The pain is very draining, especially at night. The side effects from medications aren't any walk in the park either. And the questions...i.e. how can you have pain if you can't feel your feet!!! Uggg, that gets old. The book Numb Toes anc Aching Soles helped me and my neurologist did too. Good luck to anyone suffering from any type of neuropathy.

Type 1 :(

It starts slowing down and soon will shut down

if you have constant high blood sugar, the capilaries in your body break down. can cause them to hurt. bad for you!!!

Well, diabetics can have almost anything, but they need to plan for it in order to control blood sugar. Generally, they watch the consumption of carbohydrates throughout the day. The drink mix would also be counted.

The fasting blood sugar test is taken in the morning, after fasting for at least eight hours. There are two ways the results can be presented. The first is in millimoles per litre which should be in the range of 3.9 to 5.5 mmols/l. Or the result may be in milligrams per decilitre at a range of around 70 to 100 mg/dl.

Fairly common is the U.S. and even more common in other parts of the world. In the U.S., approximatley 1 in 10 people has diabetes. U.S. population is approximately 300 million, so that's 30 million people. Of those 30 million, only 10% or less are Type 1. So yes, Type 2 Diabetes is fairly prevalent in the U.S. While heredity plays a significant factor, the good news is that diest and exercise are also an enormous factor. If you think you are at risk for Type 2 Diabetes, my first suggestion is to get your weight under control and adopt a healthy lifestyle with diet and exercise. I'm not tyring to be "preachy" about being healthy...this is actually what your doc will prescribe if you're diagnosed with Type 2. Many of those who can sucessfully manage a healthier diet and daily exercise will effectively "cure" or "suspend" the disease (at least until their weight creeps back up or they stop exercising). Many like to blame Type 2 as being hereditary (which it is...to a point) but also has a lot to do with your environmental factors. Just because your mother or father might be 200 pounds overweight doesn't mean you have to be that too. Take control and care of your body and your body will treat you well in return. Read more at www.diabetes.org and www.webmd.com

hi, anyone with diabetes can ingest urine therapy (traditionally referred to as shivambu).
one must take extra precautions during practising urine therapy as a diabetic.
the course of diabetes means changing sugar levels in blood.
when one does any intervention this is likely.
urine therapy is likely to change sugar levels positively - that means change towards better as body starts cleansing itself.
one must ensure that one takes the correct level of medication so that the nett effect means control of high sugar & not reducing sugar levels lower than normal.
diabetes is a funny disease.
lower or higher sugar levels generally give similar symptoms.
so please take care & practise shivambu regularly.
you may find some relief.
good luck
anand

Diabetic people can get help by visiting their doctors or specialists to ask advice and to be evaluated how severe the disease it. They will benefit for more information about how to manage the disease and how to better their lifestyle while they have the disease.

Diabetes is a condition where the body's ability to regulate the levels of sugar in the blood is impaired. This can happen for a number of different reasons, which all come down to the activity of the pancreatic hormone insulin, which drives sugar out of the bloodstream and into cells (among its many other functions). Type 2 diabetes, which is by far the most common form of diabetes, occurs in the setting of a blunted response to insulin, i.e. the body releases insulin when sugar levels climb (like after a meal), but the insulin does not do its job properly and sugar levels stay high. Causes include a family history of diabetes, a diet including too much refined carbohydrate, obesity and other factors. When sugar levels are high, the blood can be 'sticky' and clog up the tiny blood vessels in eye, brain, kidney, nerve, heart and elsewhere, causing damage to virtually every organ system in the body. Mild cases may be controlled by weight loss and a diet low in sugars, but advanced cases may require frequent self-injections of insulin or use of a computerized insulin pump to keep sugar levels at a normal range, as well as oral medications. Diabetes can be lethal if not well controlled.

sweaty, pale, slurred speech, can't recognize people, can't carry a conversation. didn't know a ambulance was coming

i think its hypoglycemia means low amount of blood sugar so you have to have sugar often becky 12

Post-prandial hypoglycemia occurs after eating. It is tested by a blood test measuring the blood glucose level two hours after the patient has eaten.

Of course you can! If you are in the US, federal law prohibits companies from discriminating because of age, gender, race, and health status (mental illness, disabled, etc.) Many companies have rules similar to this as well. Providing you are not planning to become a candy taste-tester and the like, there is no reason people with diabetes can't get a job.