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Dealing with Prednisolone and Diabetes
Living with a chronic health condition means there is part of your body that needs a little assistance to function at its best. In diabetes you know only too well all the ways in which it can impact on your body and your life. After a while it is easy to get into a space where…
Read MorePsychological Insulin Resistance
One of the main conclusions the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) investigators themselves have drawn from their findings is that combinations of treatments will routinely be needed for type 2 diabetes. It proved that glycemic control limits retinopathy (and probably other microvascular complications) as much for type 2 diabetic patients as had previously been…
Read MoreInsulin Use: Basic Self Adjustment Strategies
When first diagnosed with diabetes type 1, or when moving onto insulin treatment as a people living with type 2 diabetes, frequent dosage adjustments are necessary to achieve safe and effective insulin therapy. “However, a controversy surrounds the pertinent clinical parameters required to make effective and safe insulin titrations. We hypothesize that glucose readings are…
Read MoreMissing a Dose of Insulin: Type 2 Diabetes
Missed insulin injections can be much more of a pain than the injections themselves. Have you a plan for this somewhat stressful situation? What effect a late injection will have and what dose should be administered can be a challenge. Being prepared by including this into your diabetes self care plan may alleviate some of…
Read MoreType 2 Diabetes : Will I Ever Need To Go Onto Insulin?
Type 2 diabetes is a progressive condition with decreasing insulin production over time. With type 2 diabetes, your body either resists the effects of insulin — a hormone that regulates the movement of glucose into your cells — or doesn’t produce enough insulin to maintain a normal glucose level. More common in adults, type 2 diabetes…
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