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Diabetes Neuropathy In The Hand
Diabetes Neuropathy In The Hand
In diabetes mellitus, patients can suffer from serious nervous debility and neuropathic affection of the hand will occur due to involvement of peripheral nervous system. It occurs in 30% patients suffering from diabetes.
Initially, diabetic neuropathy of hand is symptomless and later the symptoms begin to appear gradually. The sense of perception of vibration is lost...
What You Need To Know About Diabetes Mellitus
What You Need To Know About Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus is estimated to affect nearly 8% of the population in the United States, about one-third of whom are undiagnosed. The incidence rate is equal in men and women and rises with age. It is the leading cause of renal failure, new adult blindness and the cause of cardiovascular diseases to nearly two-thirds of people with the disease. It is...
Can Diabetes Be Controlled and Can You Recover From It
Can Diabetes Be Controlled and Can You Recover From It?
Millions of people live with diabetes every day all over the world. Both types of diabetes can be perfectly and efficiently controlled with medication and a change of life habits. Diabetes has no cure and you cannot recover from any damage caused by uncontrolled diabetes. Blindness or loss of limbs is permanent, so is liver and kidney damage....
Is There any way to Prevent a Diabetic Patients Condition from Becoming Worse?
Is There any way to Prevent a Diabetic Patients Condition from Becoming Worse?
Diabetics must always be under medical care. They have to monitor the levels of insulin in their bodies and watch what they eat and drink for the remainder of their natural life. Uncontrolled diabetes, of either type can be fatal or produce extremely serious consequences to body and limb. Millions of diabetics all around...
Why Should Diabetes Be Treated?
Why Should Diabetes Be Treated?
Diabetes is very dangerous, uncontrolled diabetes can have very serious effects on your body. Many people go through life with diabetes without even knowing it until everything goes haywire. It can lie in wait for many years causing many problems which your doctor treats individually for them to reappear many times without apparent cause. They keep multiplying and adding...
Do Fat People Have a Higher Risk of Getting Diabetes than Thin People?
Do Fat People Have a Higher Risk of Getting Diabetes than Thin People?
There are two types of diabetes, Type 1 is the impossibility of the body to produce insulin, and Type 2 is the incapability of the body to use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone produced by the body, specifically the pancreas, to convert fats and carbohydrates into glucose. The glucose in turn is use by the body as energy....
What is the Latest and Most Effective Drug for Diabetes?
What is the Latest and Most Effective Drug for Diabetes?
There is no drug more effective or less effective for diabetes. All of them have the same effect and are based on the same principal which is to provide insulin so the body can process glucose. For medication used in Type 1 diabetes insulin of animal origin is better and more effective than artificial insulin. Artificial insulin must be produced...
About Sugar Diabetes
About Sugar Diabetes
What Are The Symptoms Of “Sugar” Diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic disease of metabolism characterized by the body’s inability to produce enough insulin to process carbohydrates, fat and protein efficiently. Warning signals of diabetes include drowsiness, itching, blurred vision, skin infections, slow healing, and tingling and numbness in the feet.
In the acute...
4 Easy Diabetes Recipes
4 Easy Diabetes Recipes
Greens From The Motherland
Makes 4 servings
1 pound fresh spinach, collard greens or kale
1 tablespoon peanut oil
1/2 large onion, coarsely chopped
1 large tomato, diced
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons curry powder
1/2 small lemon, sliced thin, optional
Wash the greens thoroughly. Cook in a saucepan over low heat for about 5 minutes (the water clinging to the leaves...
Sugar-Free Candy and Diabetes
Sugar-Free Candy and Diabetes
My grocery store sells various types of sugar-free candy. I have diabetes. Is it all right to eat this candy as a part of my diabetic diet?
Many adults with diabetes are overweight and this adversely affects their illness. Whether you have diabetes, or are just watching your caloric intake, you should not assume that “sugar-free” candy is low in calories. That...
