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Diabetes Complications
What is Diabetic Ketoacidosis?
As our body cells require glucose for energy, Diabetic Ketoacidosis is a condition wherein glucose are unable to reach the cells to provide energy as there is no insulin or a reduced amount of insulin being generated by the pancreas. As the body needs energy, the system would begin the process of breaking down the [...]
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Is it Safe for Women to Plan for Pregnancy if they have Diabetes?
If you are a diabetic person or if you have been reading this blog, then you must already be knowing that pregnancy reduces insulin sensitivity of body due to diabetogenic effects of placental hormones and is most maximal in the late second to third trimester. It is a fact that diabetes and pregnancy can create [...]
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Eye Problems in Diabetics
Diabetes is associated to many health conditions such as with the kidneys, heart and foot, but most importantly with the eyes as well. This severe condition affects eyes of diabetes patient. Diabetes can and will mostly cause damage to the eye if glucose level in your blood is not kept under control. In medical terminology, [...]
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Oral Health Care in Diabetes
With the number of health conditions that make diabetes complicated, here is another to add to that number. And this is the fact that diabetes has a higher risk of having gum disease. The American Diabetes Association has stated that over 23 million people in the United States, about 7 in every 100 people have [...]
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Tips to Prevent Diabetes Complications
The treatment of diabetes will depend on the type of diabetes you may have with consideration of you having other medical problems, including your age range and health at the time you were diagnosed of having diabetes. Thus, the treatment is considered to be highly individualized. But one fact remains similar and that is the [...]
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Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetics are much more venerable to cardiovascular diseases or CVD than anybody else. But regardless of the fact that you are a diagnosed diabetic and prone to heart diseases and stroke, it doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything to prevent it from happening. It is essential to keep your blood sugar, blood pressure and [...]
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Cure for Diabetic Neuropathy
Diabetic Neuropathy is a painful disease where continuous high glucose level dameges the nervous system immensely. Later it can also damage the vital internal organs since all are innervated. There aren’t many treatments available for curing neuropathy despite so much of research done. The best neuropathy treatment remains strict blood sugar control and rest of [...]
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Diabetic Kidney Disease – Diabetic Nephropathy
Our kidneys are an important organ in our body and without it we wouldn’t be able to live. Any kidney problems would cause a lot of complications for us and those with diabetes are most prone to having kidney problems. Long term high glucose impairs the blood vessels and nephrons. As kidneys are highly vascular, [...]
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Diabetes and Skin Care
While diabetes takes its role in causing a lot of other health risks, it also is associated with a number of skin conditions or rather diabetes skin infections. It would be best to be conscious of these diabetic skin conditions. Diabetes Mellitus is identified by the high blood glucose level that is caused by the [...]
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Heart Attack and Stroke in Diabetes Patients
Our body gets energy through the food being digested in our system. They are broken down into glucose that is the main source of fuel for our bodies. Once the digestion has been done, the produced glucose then enters into our bloodstream proceeding into the cells generating energy. However, insulin is required to be present [...]
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