There are studies which found that ginseng are good for diabetics. The studies were done in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. So far, the researches conclude that ginseng, which have been used by Chinese people for many years, can also play a big role in Western medicine.
There are two new studies which suggest that the red ginseng herb may help normalize the levels of blood sugar in diabetic patients. In one study, patients with type 2 diabetes who consume pectin-like fiber with high viscous and ginseng have notable decrease in blood glucose levels as reported by Alexandra Jenkins, a candidate of PhD of University of Surrey, United Kingdom.
The study had 30 diabetic patients with whom medication taken helped them control blood sugar, but did not help in normalizing the glucose levels. The participants were given three times daily for 12 weeks, either capsules which contents were ginseng grown in North America or placebo.
After four weeks, the participants were switched. Those who received ginseng capsules took placebo and those who received placebo took ginseng. Blood samples taken after each break from diabetics showed that glucose levels of ginseng takers became more normal, but not during the time when they took placebo.
The herbal preparation appeared to be safe, with no adverse effects, but when beyond medication, it can be unsafe. Chinese people who apply ginseng to cure various ailments have been doing so for 5,000 years. Just like acupuncture, ginseng can have a role in Western medicine.
Korean ginseng
Another PhD candidate from University of Toronto, John L. Sievenpiper studied Korean ginseng’s role in improving insulin sensitivity, as compared to placebo. He said that ginseng appeared to aid the patient to process the insulin better.
Ginseng can be good especially for type 2 diabetics. Kaufman, head of Center for Diabetes at Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles said there is no doubt that natural herbs like ginseng can be effective in correcting the body’s defective reaction to insulin.
A research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that one specie of ginseng at least may have therapeutic value. In the study of University of Toronto, having American ginseng before meals appear to cause significant reduction to blood sugar, diabetics or non-diabetics alike.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Herbal Medicines Most Used by Diabetics
With the availability of herbal medicines nowadays, being less expensive and painless when applied; many people resort to taking them, including diabetics. Their healing capabilities have been claimed by many as more effective, safer and with less or no side effects.
Nature is rich with herbs from which herbal medicines are formulated to help diabetics to manage their disease.
The following are some of the commonly-used diabetes herbal medicines.
Allium cepa (onion)
Dry powder onions showed anti-hyperglycemic activity in rabbits with diabetes. Onions are also known to be antioxidants and are good in controlling blood glucose.
Allium sativum (garlic)
A common recurrent herb, garlic has allicin – a compound responsible for the pungent odor and hypoglycemic activity. Garlic proved to help decrease fasting blood glucose as well as triglyceride levels in serum.
Aloe vera and barbadensis
A common house plant, aloe has a record of a multipurpose folk remedy. Aloe gum extracts are effective to increase sugar tolerance in diabetic and non-diabetic rats.
Acacia arabica (babhul)
Another herbal medicine source is the acacia extract which acts as an anti−diabetic agent by releasing insulin.
Mangifera indica (mango)
Mango leaves are used as antidiabetic agents in the medicine of Nigerian folk.
Azadiracthta indica (neem)
The hydroalcoholic extracts of neem can do anti-hyperglycemic activity and it is antimalarial, anti-bacterial, hepatoprotective, antioxidant and antifertility as well.
Bitter gourd momordica-charantia (bitter melon juice)
Bitter melon juice has shown to be very effective to patients with diabetes. It contains a lot of insulin, thus help lower blood glucose.
Vitamin C
Researches found that vitamin C can be good for diabetics when taken with other supplements to help decrease blood glucose levels. It can also help reduce the risk of atherosclerosis and protects from further complications like heart disease.
Other herbal medicines that are noteworthy are cinnamon, fenugreek, banaba, green tea and many others.
Nature is rich with herbs from which herbal medicines are formulated to help diabetics to manage their disease.
The following are some of the commonly-used diabetes herbal medicines.
Allium cepa (onion)
Dry powder onions showed anti-hyperglycemic activity in rabbits with diabetes. Onions are also known to be antioxidants and are good in controlling blood glucose.
Allium sativum (garlic)
A common recurrent herb, garlic has allicin – a compound responsible for the pungent odor and hypoglycemic activity. Garlic proved to help decrease fasting blood glucose as well as triglyceride levels in serum.
Aloe vera and barbadensis
A common house plant, aloe has a record of a multipurpose folk remedy. Aloe gum extracts are effective to increase sugar tolerance in diabetic and non-diabetic rats.
Acacia arabica (babhul)
Another herbal medicine source is the acacia extract which acts as an anti−diabetic agent by releasing insulin.
Mangifera indica (mango)
Mango leaves are used as antidiabetic agents in the medicine of Nigerian folk.
Azadiracthta indica (neem)
The hydroalcoholic extracts of neem can do anti-hyperglycemic activity and it is antimalarial, anti-bacterial, hepatoprotective, antioxidant and antifertility as well.
Bitter gourd momordica-charantia (bitter melon juice)
Bitter melon juice has shown to be very effective to patients with diabetes. It contains a lot of insulin, thus help lower blood glucose.
Vitamin C
Researches found that vitamin C can be good for diabetics when taken with other supplements to help decrease blood glucose levels. It can also help reduce the risk of atherosclerosis and protects from further complications like heart disease.
Other herbal medicines that are noteworthy are cinnamon, fenugreek, banaba, green tea and many others.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Utilizing Injection Locator for Diabetics
Injection locator for diabetics? Injection is not a strange thing for diabetic patients. Since an injection locator can guide to where the best site of the body to inject, it is very useful for patients who already do the injecting themselves.
Injection locator is best for diabetics who already do the injection themselves. Some people with diabetes are required to inject insulin to stabilize their blood sugar level. Others go to health care centers for a supervised shot but it is also common among insulin takers to inject themselves especially those who do it at a daily basis. Injection locators for them are useful. But what is it exactly and what does it do?
For starters, injection users are always reminded about the importance of site rotation to prevent lumps or depressions resulting from excessive insulin injections in the same spot such as hypertrophy, lipoatrophy, and lipodystrophy. Practicing site separation can reduce tissue and skin damage. A good site rotation is essential since certain injection sites need weeks to recover. Without an injection locator, it can be a challenge for diabetics to remember previous injection sites and to learn how rotates but fortunately a company in Canada came up with a product that makes injection rotation easy, The Injection Locator.
The injection locator has 59 holes and is made from a high-quality vinyl. It contains 59 holes in which 2 are used as alignment locators and the remaining 57 is used as potential injection sites. The 57 holes are numbered to go easily from one site to another and these holes are an inch away as recommended by health care professionals. The Injection Locator is exceptionally useful in Homecare, Extended Health Care and Hospital environments because of changing staff schedules. With the injec tion locator, every diabetic, healthcare professional or caretaker (i.e. family member) would know the exact location of the previous injection.
So how do we use this? One has to place the Injection Locator over one leg, abdomen, arm, lower back or buttock (the last two with an assistant) and mark off an injection location with a marking pen. Then one has to simply remove the Injection Locator and inject.
The Injection Locator is a simple compliance tool that everyone with diabetes can use. Type 1 and Type 2 can use this tool to regularly and systematically separate subcutaneous insulin injections sites in a given injection area. With the
Injection locator, diabetic injections can be easy and fast. This tool is only available in one size but it can fit everybody such as babies (2 inner lines – 2 weeks per area), children, teenagers (4 inner lines – 4 weeks per area), and adults (all 6 lines – 6 weeks per area).
The Injection Locator is a versatile tool used in the medical community. It’s not only used for diabetic patients but it is also used for other subcutaneous injected medicines controlling the effects of Multiple Scleroses (MS), certain Cancers, H.I.V. (Aids) Hepatitis C, and allergies with injections - at regular intervals - of medicines into the subcutaneous tissues of the body.
By using the injection locator, one can easily and quickly choose a new injection site; one can reduce skin and tissue damage and even gain 100% absorption and even distribution. The injection locator for diabetics is the ultimate tool for injection site separation.
Once you use it you shall be amazed on its help for insulin injection.
Injection locator is best for diabetics who already do the injection themselves. Some people with diabetes are required to inject insulin to stabilize their blood sugar level. Others go to health care centers for a supervised shot but it is also common among insulin takers to inject themselves especially those who do it at a daily basis. Injection locators for them are useful. But what is it exactly and what does it do?
For starters, injection users are always reminded about the importance of site rotation to prevent lumps or depressions resulting from excessive insulin injections in the same spot such as hypertrophy, lipoatrophy, and lipodystrophy. Practicing site separation can reduce tissue and skin damage. A good site rotation is essential since certain injection sites need weeks to recover. Without an injection locator, it can be a challenge for diabetics to remember previous injection sites and to learn how rotates but fortunately a company in Canada came up with a product that makes injection rotation easy, The Injection Locator.
The injection locator has 59 holes and is made from a high-quality vinyl. It contains 59 holes in which 2 are used as alignment locators and the remaining 57 is used as potential injection sites. The 57 holes are numbered to go easily from one site to another and these holes are an inch away as recommended by health care professionals. The Injection Locator is exceptionally useful in Homecare, Extended Health Care and Hospital environments because of changing staff schedules. With the injec tion locator, every diabetic, healthcare professional or caretaker (i.e. family member) would know the exact location of the previous injection.
So how do we use this? One has to place the Injection Locator over one leg, abdomen, arm, lower back or buttock (the last two with an assistant) and mark off an injection location with a marking pen. Then one has to simply remove the Injection Locator and inject.
The Injection Locator is a simple compliance tool that everyone with diabetes can use. Type 1 and Type 2 can use this tool to regularly and systematically separate subcutaneous insulin injections sites in a given injection area. With the
Injection locator, diabetic injections can be easy and fast. This tool is only available in one size but it can fit everybody such as babies (2 inner lines – 2 weeks per area), children, teenagers (4 inner lines – 4 weeks per area), and adults (all 6 lines – 6 weeks per area).
The Injection Locator is a versatile tool used in the medical community. It’s not only used for diabetic patients but it is also used for other subcutaneous injected medicines controlling the effects of Multiple Scleroses (MS), certain Cancers, H.I.V. (Aids) Hepatitis C, and allergies with injections - at regular intervals - of medicines into the subcutaneous tissues of the body.
By using the injection locator, one can easily and quickly choose a new injection site; one can reduce skin and tissue damage and even gain 100% absorption and even distribution. The injection locator for diabetics is the ultimate tool for injection site separation.
Once you use it you shall be amazed on its help for insulin injection.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Late-Night Eating for Diabetics, Safe Enough?
Sometimes it cannot be avoided for diabetics to find themselves in the middle of the night and still awake. Then they feel hungry and eat. However, questions sprout if late-night eating is good for their diabetic system or not.
People with diabetes are keen on their lifestyle, on the food they eat and on their eating habits. Late-night eating for diabetics is still an issue to discuss. To keep their blood glucose at a safety level and make things normal, people with diabetes have to live a healthy life and everything shall go smoothly.
Late-night food or snacks are not prohibited for diabetics. What is there to be more cautious about is these late-night eating should not lead to gaining weight. Weight gaining that lead to obesity is a no-no for diabetics.
Night-eating syndrome
Human beings centuries ago had no way to preserve food. So, they have to consume the food during daytime and had nothing to eat at nighttime. Our age solves the food preservation issue, making it possible to eat anytime, even do late-night eating. However, this increases the risk of over-eating for those who cannot discipline themselves, and for those who are diabetics.
Eating late at nights is healthy as long as it seldom done. However, some people take their daytime food normally, and eat at late-nights. This can lead to added sugar, calories and body weight.
People eat while watching television, or when they are craving for food or simply bored. This becomes a bad habit or they end up having night-eating-syndrome. Night-eating syndrome also happens to those who have depression, obesity and low self-esteem. This must be consulted to your doctor.
Wise food choices after dinner
Late-night eating for diabetics can add extra calories to the body and body weight as well. You may have high blood glucose in the next morning.
If you feel hungry after dinner, you might want to choose foods that have less carbohydrates and calories. These can be a small serving of sugar-free gelatin, one vanilla wafer, 2 saltine crackers, 5 baby carrots, a hard candy or a piece of gum. These can satisfy your hunger but do not give much sugar and calories.
It is far better to talk to your doctor about late-night eating and what food to choose. Your doctor can give you advice to balance food intake with your medications and insulin.
People with diabetes are keen on their lifestyle, on the food they eat and on their eating habits. Late-night eating for diabetics is still an issue to discuss. To keep their blood glucose at a safety level and make things normal, people with diabetes have to live a healthy life and everything shall go smoothly.
Late-night food or snacks are not prohibited for diabetics. What is there to be more cautious about is these late-night eating should not lead to gaining weight. Weight gaining that lead to obesity is a no-no for diabetics.
Night-eating syndrome
Human beings centuries ago had no way to preserve food. So, they have to consume the food during daytime and had nothing to eat at nighttime. Our age solves the food preservation issue, making it possible to eat anytime, even do late-night eating. However, this increases the risk of over-eating for those who cannot discipline themselves, and for those who are diabetics.
Eating late at nights is healthy as long as it seldom done. However, some people take their daytime food normally, and eat at late-nights. This can lead to added sugar, calories and body weight.
People eat while watching television, or when they are craving for food or simply bored. This becomes a bad habit or they end up having night-eating-syndrome. Night-eating syndrome also happens to those who have depression, obesity and low self-esteem. This must be consulted to your doctor.
Wise food choices after dinner
Late-night eating for diabetics can add extra calories to the body and body weight as well. You may have high blood glucose in the next morning.
If you feel hungry after dinner, you might want to choose foods that have less carbohydrates and calories. These can be a small serving of sugar-free gelatin, one vanilla wafer, 2 saltine crackers, 5 baby carrots, a hard candy or a piece of gum. These can satisfy your hunger but do not give much sugar and calories.
It is far better to talk to your doctor about late-night eating and what food to choose. Your doctor can give you advice to balance food intake with your medications and insulin.
Friday, January 14, 2011
I am Diabetic, Would I Pass Diabetes to my Kids?
If I am diabetic, would I pass diabetes to my kids? If the answer is yes, maybe I should not have kids then. Or should not add the number of my children today.
Diabetic people know very well that their disease is fatal and can lead to a death earlier than normal people would. They also have to develop a sort of self-discipline to make them more cautious of their lifestyle and habits. If they think their lifestyle is not normal, they may not want this kind of lifestyle to be followed by their future children.
The decision is yours
In earlier stages, some diabetic women who knew the risks involved in getting pregnant and having a baby that can become diabetic, promised themselves not to have an offspring at all. But for some diabetics – men and women alike, when they fall in love and get married, priorities can change. Like any married person, they start to wish to have children. Then the question of “will I pass diabetes to my kids?” pops up on their minds.
The decision of having a baby or an additional baby if you are diabetic now is really something up to you. The fact is, there is a chance that the illness can be passed to your kids, but repeat, only a chance.
Facts and chances
Some people are diabetic, yet their parents are not. Some do not have diabetes, but their parents or grandparents are diabetic.
Would I pass diabetes to my kids is not a sure ball.
There are people who are diabetics but they are the very first person in their bloodline to have that disease. There was a case when both the father and mother are diabetic, but their two kids - both boys are not. If two people without diabetes can produce a child with diabetes, the chance of having a kid without diabetes is a pretty good chance too.
If you are a diabetic mother and nurse your baby with breastfeeding, it is really advantageous both to you and your baby. Remember that diabetes is not an infectious disease. Your baby cannot catch it from you. Thus, it is safe to breastfeed. Studies revealed that while breastfeeding, diabetic women decrease the amount of insulin that they need. Breastfeeding may also reduce your baby’s risk of developing diabetes in his later life. It is not a factor to pass diabetes to your kid.
Train your children with healthy routines
You may have children now, discipline them from the very start by applying the things that are good for you. Let them get used to eating healthy food and balanced diet. Make exercise part of your routine.
The most important thing is avoid becoming obese or overweight. It is one of the major reasons why people have diabetes. If you are overweight, make sure you discipline yourself to become normal since your eating habits and lifestyles maybe duplicated by your children and that they have the tendency to be diabetic.
These are good for you and your children as well. It is like hitting two birds in one shot.
Diabetic people know very well that their disease is fatal and can lead to a death earlier than normal people would. They also have to develop a sort of self-discipline to make them more cautious of their lifestyle and habits. If they think their lifestyle is not normal, they may not want this kind of lifestyle to be followed by their future children.
The decision is yours
In earlier stages, some diabetic women who knew the risks involved in getting pregnant and having a baby that can become diabetic, promised themselves not to have an offspring at all. But for some diabetics – men and women alike, when they fall in love and get married, priorities can change. Like any married person, they start to wish to have children. Then the question of “will I pass diabetes to my kids?” pops up on their minds.
The decision of having a baby or an additional baby if you are diabetic now is really something up to you. The fact is, there is a chance that the illness can be passed to your kids, but repeat, only a chance.
Facts and chances
Some people are diabetic, yet their parents are not. Some do not have diabetes, but their parents or grandparents are diabetic.
Would I pass diabetes to my kids is not a sure ball.
There are people who are diabetics but they are the very first person in their bloodline to have that disease. There was a case when both the father and mother are diabetic, but their two kids - both boys are not. If two people without diabetes can produce a child with diabetes, the chance of having a kid without diabetes is a pretty good chance too.
If you are a diabetic mother and nurse your baby with breastfeeding, it is really advantageous both to you and your baby. Remember that diabetes is not an infectious disease. Your baby cannot catch it from you. Thus, it is safe to breastfeed. Studies revealed that while breastfeeding, diabetic women decrease the amount of insulin that they need. Breastfeeding may also reduce your baby’s risk of developing diabetes in his later life. It is not a factor to pass diabetes to your kid.
Train your children with healthy routines
You may have children now, discipline them from the very start by applying the things that are good for you. Let them get used to eating healthy food and balanced diet. Make exercise part of your routine.
The most important thing is avoid becoming obese or overweight. It is one of the major reasons why people have diabetes. If you are overweight, make sure you discipline yourself to become normal since your eating habits and lifestyles maybe duplicated by your children and that they have the tendency to be diabetic.
These are good for you and your children as well. It is like hitting two birds in one shot.
Are You Diabetic? De-Stress Yourself
Stress has been the culprit of many diseases. It is more harmful to diabetic people. Though stress is sometimes hard to avoid, putting our health on top priority should help us find ways to avoid stress-causing situations. Read on.
Stress and diabetic patients
In a fast-paced society where people live at a breakneck speed, it overpowers your precious resources and time due to numerous social, personal and work obligations. However, emotional and physical stress can take a greater toll on health especially with diabetic people.
The blood sugar rises when somebody is stressed. The main function of epinephrine and cortisol hormones is to raise blood sugar so energy will be boost when it is needed the most. For example, when faced with danger or when fighting, blood sugar rises to help meet the challenge. Both emotional and physical stress can cause the hormones to increase, including blood sugars.
Diabetes and stress
Normal people have mechanisms in the body to control the blood sugar from rising abnormally. However, diabetic patients lost or lack these mechanisms so they cannot keep the blood sugar out of control. Due to lack of insulin, these hormones cannot be coped up so blood sugar levels rise during stress. Out-of-control blood sugar can result to complications like kidney problems, blindness, nerve damage, heart attacks and strokes.
Many situations can cause us distress, upset and stress such as being laid off from a job, business failure, relationship breakup and many more. These generally can cause worse effects on the blood sugar. It is important that we identify the situations that cause us stress. One of the best ways is to record the stress level you have to figure out eventually what are the events that make your blood sugar go up, especially if you are already diabetic. Some can feel their sugar going high if they are fighting with a spouse or missing the morning train.
De-stress yourself
Once the stress-causing situations are identified, find ways to chill them out. You may take up meditation, yoga or deep breathing, relaxation therapy or cognitive behavior therapy wherein you re-evaluate what causes your aggravation and change that behavior and view life in a more appropriate approach. Talking to a therapist, stepping back from the situation, eliminating caffeine, healthy eating, exercise and keeping a relaxing hobby like knitting, reading poems or hot bathing can be of great help too.
Stress and diabetic patients
In a fast-paced society where people live at a breakneck speed, it overpowers your precious resources and time due to numerous social, personal and work obligations. However, emotional and physical stress can take a greater toll on health especially with diabetic people.
The blood sugar rises when somebody is stressed. The main function of epinephrine and cortisol hormones is to raise blood sugar so energy will be boost when it is needed the most. For example, when faced with danger or when fighting, blood sugar rises to help meet the challenge. Both emotional and physical stress can cause the hormones to increase, including blood sugars.
Diabetes and stress
Normal people have mechanisms in the body to control the blood sugar from rising abnormally. However, diabetic patients lost or lack these mechanisms so they cannot keep the blood sugar out of control. Due to lack of insulin, these hormones cannot be coped up so blood sugar levels rise during stress. Out-of-control blood sugar can result to complications like kidney problems, blindness, nerve damage, heart attacks and strokes.
Many situations can cause us distress, upset and stress such as being laid off from a job, business failure, relationship breakup and many more. These generally can cause worse effects on the blood sugar. It is important that we identify the situations that cause us stress. One of the best ways is to record the stress level you have to figure out eventually what are the events that make your blood sugar go up, especially if you are already diabetic. Some can feel their sugar going high if they are fighting with a spouse or missing the morning train.
De-stress yourself
Once the stress-causing situations are identified, find ways to chill them out. You may take up meditation, yoga or deep breathing, relaxation therapy or cognitive behavior therapy wherein you re-evaluate what causes your aggravation and change that behavior and view life in a more appropriate approach. Talking to a therapist, stepping back from the situation, eliminating caffeine, healthy eating, exercise and keeping a relaxing hobby like knitting, reading poems or hot bathing can be of great help too.
Breaking News – You Have Diabetes Symptoms and You Are Diabetic. What’s Next?
First, you feel that the diabetes symptoms are present in you. Then you go into screening and the doctor confirms that you are diabetic. Is your death near? Can life still go on normally?
The occurrence of diabetes
Diabetes happens when sugar builds up in your blood instead of going to the cells. Diabetes symptoms begin to show up. You become diabetic when your body has insulin deficiency. Insulin is a hormone that processes the glucose so they enter to your body and can be utilized as energy. The pancreas is responsible for producing insulin.
Thus, diabetes happens for many reasons: malfunctioning of the pancreas, much sugar intake, genetics or the body cells ignore the insulin. Worse, excess sugar in blood leads to serious problems like damage of the nerves, kidneys and heart.
Diabetes symptoms showing up
These are the signs that you have diabetes: extreme thirst, extreme hunger, frequent urination, sores or bruises heal slowly. That’s it! You have these diabetes symptoms. You are diabetic. You have all these signs plus dry itchy skin, unexplained weight loss, blurry vision, unusual tiredness or drowsiness, tingling or numbness in the hands or feet, frequent or recurring skin, gum, bladder or genital yeast infections.
People who are mostly at risk of diabetes are those: more than 45 years of age, overweight, don’t exercise regularly, diabetes runs in the family, gain diabetes during pregnancy and you are an African American, Hispanic American/Latino, Native American, Asian American or Pacific Islander.
Now that you have diabetes, what’s next?
Well, having diabetes is not the end of the world. Be calm. Live a normal life but make it a point to watch over your diet and lifestyle. With those diabetes symptoms present and you being diabetic, there is nothing to fear. Nobody died of diabetes alone, but with the complications it brings.
Ask your doctor’s advice. Love yourself more. Research on the food and lifestyle a diabetic person must follow. Be part of diabetic websites and forums like this website diabetes.com.sg to stay updated.
The occurrence of diabetes
Diabetes happens when sugar builds up in your blood instead of going to the cells. Diabetes symptoms begin to show up. You become diabetic when your body has insulin deficiency. Insulin is a hormone that processes the glucose so they enter to your body and can be utilized as energy. The pancreas is responsible for producing insulin.
Thus, diabetes happens for many reasons: malfunctioning of the pancreas, much sugar intake, genetics or the body cells ignore the insulin. Worse, excess sugar in blood leads to serious problems like damage of the nerves, kidneys and heart.
Diabetes symptoms showing up
These are the signs that you have diabetes: extreme thirst, extreme hunger, frequent urination, sores or bruises heal slowly. That’s it! You have these diabetes symptoms. You are diabetic. You have all these signs plus dry itchy skin, unexplained weight loss, blurry vision, unusual tiredness or drowsiness, tingling or numbness in the hands or feet, frequent or recurring skin, gum, bladder or genital yeast infections.
People who are mostly at risk of diabetes are those: more than 45 years of age, overweight, don’t exercise regularly, diabetes runs in the family, gain diabetes during pregnancy and you are an African American, Hispanic American/Latino, Native American, Asian American or Pacific Islander.
Now that you have diabetes, what’s next?
Well, having diabetes is not the end of the world. Be calm. Live a normal life but make it a point to watch over your diet and lifestyle. With those diabetes symptoms present and you being diabetic, there is nothing to fear. Nobody died of diabetes alone, but with the complications it brings.
Ask your doctor’s advice. Love yourself more. Research on the food and lifestyle a diabetic person must follow. Be part of diabetic websites and forums like this website diabetes.com.sg to stay updated.
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