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These are the initial symptoms, but other more severe:

– muscle weakness
– Slurred speech
– blurred vision
– confusion
– sleepiness
– seizures
– Unconsciousness

There are also symptoms of hypoglycemia diabetes that may occur during the night:

– excessive sweating
– nightmares
– Irritability, tiredness and confusion upon waking. Read the rest of this entry »

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Low levels of blood sugar, called hypoglycemia, affecting people with diabetes. When this “downturn” is not treated in time can have serious consequences for your health. How can you recognize when your sugar is low and what to do to stabilize it? In life and health we tell you what you can do.

The diagnosis of diabetes is usually associated with elevated blood sugar. But the truth is that people with diabetes the glucose or sugar they may fluctuate very low end as well. This is known as “diabetic hypoglycemia or hypoglycemia” and occurs when too much insulin in your blood and not much sugar or glucose.

What causes the lowering of glucose levels in the blood? It may be that you have exceeded the dose of insulin or medication, you have not eaten enough, you’ve been exercising without having eaten, you have taken alcohol or, for some reason, you’ve skipped a meal. Read the rest of this entry »

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The key when a child has type 1 diabetes, is learning to control the disease to avoid complications and to have a long and happy life. How? With your help and support of the medical team in charge. Your child must understand that the important thing is to try to maintain levels of blood glucose within a healthy range. Depending on your age, your doctor and you have to explain what the role of insulin, and what happens in the body after each meal.

You can say something like: the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood rises as the body digests food that they go through the stomach and intestine into the blood to be absorbed and can be used to give us energy we need. When raised, the body needs insulin to this glucose into cells, the need for energy and thus the level of blood sugar to normal. But as the body of a person with type 1 diabetes produce no insulin, you need to inject in the quantities that you indicate your physician.

In a person with type 1 diabetes, your pancreas does not work well. The pancreas is an organ located below the stomach and is responsible for producing insulin, hence it must be injected, because you can take. Stomach acid destroys insulin. Read the rest of this entry »

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Being diagnosed with diabetes always causes an emotional impact. But one way or another, as an adult, one is set to change, however much they cost. However, the story is different when a child under 11 years receiving the news that you have type 1 diabetes. I may not understand well what is diabetes and their parents and doctors who sometimes bear all responsibility to care and teach you how to manage their disease. Here I’ll tell you more about type 1 diabetes in children.

During childhood is usually a busy playing, learning and enjoying. The world’s a playground and joyful discovery. However, it is not always rosy. Everything can change in the children when you have type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes or insulin dependent diabetes.

While the news that he has type 1 diabetes in children is not the end of the world, it does mean a major change in daily routine: from now on your child must learn to eat better, to incorporate to exercise in their daily life and also will have to get up close to a friend: insulin. Read the rest of this entry »

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You drink three to five cups of coffee every day, you can reduce the risk of dementia by 65 percent. This emerged in a survey done by the University of Kuopio in Finland, in cooperation with the National Public Health Institute and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between coffee and risk of dementia. Until now, caffeine-term effect on the central nervous system was unknown.

Prolonged study
1409 people participated in the survey. They specified how much coffee they drank in 1972, 1977, 1982 or 1987, depending on when the participants were middle-aged (average 50 years). They were divided into three groups based on their consumption of coffee:

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Exercise in warm water improves physical function in elderly patients with both heart failure and older with heart failure and type 2 diabetes. Water has previously been assessed as inappropriate training for people with heart failure.

The background to the assumption is that the water itself is a pressure on the body and then transferred to the blood from the legs to the torso.

It is considered likely to create further pressure on the heart. Physiotherapy Asa Cider thesis has shown that bathing in the warm pool on the contrary, gives a reduced cardiac load, resulting in an improved pump function and a lower heart rate. Read the rest of this entry »

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Proper injection technique is important for optimum effect of insulin and the regulation of blood sugar.

Who needs insulin?
In type 1 diabetes, the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas damaged. Anyone who suffers from this type of diabetes therefore need insulin treatment.

Type 2 diabetes because the body’s insulin work for the poor, or the pancreas does not produce enough. Not everyone who suffers from this type of need insulin treatment, but if the change of diet and use of the tablets do not provide good enough results, it is necessary.

What types of insulin are available?
- Extra fast-acting
- Fast-acting
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People going through a divorce, are more likely to suffer health problems, including heart disease and cancer, says a new study has shown.

Divorce and widowhood are long-term commitment, with negative effects on the physical, which is only marginally improved if a person finds a new partner.

The stress and financial uncertainty of separation may continue to wreak havoc in our bodies even decades after specifically, research indicates.

Divorced people have 20 percent more to chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes or cancer, in relation to married persons, the study on 8652 people aged between 51 and 61 years, carried conducted by Professor Linda Waite of the University of Chicago.

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