The use of Diabetic Alert Dogs to manage blood sugar levels in Type 1 Diabetic Children 13‚000 children and adolescents are diagnosed annually with type 1 diabetes. Traditional care and management for this disease includes insulin therapy and blood sugar monitoring. One of the dangers associated with disease is hypoglycemia most commonly referred to as low blood sugar. To date 1 in 3 of the individuals diagnosed with type 1 diabetes will die from an undetected low blood sugar‚ mostly resulting
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Diabetes Association has come out with guidelines for aspirin use in diabetes. 1. Aspirin should ONLY be used in any diabetic patient who has evidence of heart disease‚ a prior heart attack‚ previous bypass procedures‚ astroke‚ angina‚ claudication‚ or blood vessel disease. 2. Aspirin therapy should be considered in high-risk men and women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. This includes diabetic patients with the following: A family history of heart disease Cigarette smoking Hypertension Positive protein
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Diabetic eye problems can‚ in many instances‚ be prevented through early detection and treatment. Keeping the blood glucose and blood pressure as close to the standard range as possible are necessary first steps in preventing diabetes from affecting eyesight. There are other ways to prevent damage‚ and that is to stop smoking and once a year have an eye care professional examine your eyes by dilating your pupils. Dilating makes the pupils opening bigger and allows the eye doctor to see the back of
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American Youth Obese and Diabetic David Kleiman DeVry University INDEX PAGE1: Title page with author and Date of creation Page 2.; Index Pages 3-4: Outline Page 5: Thesis Statement in the first paragraph Pages 5-7: Body Page 8: First graph depicting: Calories Available Per Capita Per day (This chart shows the difference in caloric consumption daily for the period 1970-2010). Page 9: Second Graph depicting: Calories Available Per Capita Per day (This chart shows the
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help prevent‚ treat‚ and reduce recurrences of diabetic foot complications. Based on eligibility criteria‚ 88 people were selected. The study excluded patients with orthopedic diseases‚ cranial nerve disorders‚ impaired cognitive function‚ mental disorders‚ patients receiving chemotherapy‚ and those that did not follow the 2-year program. The patients were divided into groups according to risk factors using International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) classification. (p. 1954) Once the
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The different types of diets Glucose Control - Diabetic Diet Nutrition experts say that there is no one diet for diabetes‚ but people with diabetes should follow the nutrition guidelines in the Food Pyramid‚ while paying special attention to carbohydrate intake. People with diabetes should also eat about the same amount of food at the same time each * Eat more starches such as bread‚ cereal‚ and starchy vegetables. Aim for six servings a day or more. For example‚ have cold cereal with nonfat
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GUEST EDITORIAL Communication: why is this such an emotive subject? Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender‚ a message and an intended recipient‚ although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender’s intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality
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Clinical features and diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis in children INTRODUCTION — Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. DKA can less commonly occur in children with type 2 diabetes mellitus [1‚2]. (See "Classification of diabetes mellitus and genetic diabetic syndromes".) In recent years‚ the incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus have increased across all ethnic groups. This has been coupled with an
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ROLE OF DEBRIDEMENT IN WOUND HEALING OF PATIENTS WITH DIABETES FOOT ULCERS (REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS) INCIDENT As a registered nurse with over 10 years of clinical practice experience in various field of nursing including caring for patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs)‚ I was concerned with rise in the numbers of DFUs cases resulting into higher rates of amputation‚ disabilities and mortality . DFU are caused by a combination of peripheral neuropathy and vascular diseases resulting from diabetes
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not secrete insulin or the body is unable to process it properly. INSULIN is the hormone that monitors the level of the sugar in the blood. DIABETIC EYE DISEASE refers to a group of eye problems that people with diabetes may face as a complication of diabetes that may cause severe vision loss or even blindness. DIABETIC RETINOPATHY is the most common diabetic eye disease and a leading cause of blindness. It involves small haemorrhages from broken arteries in the retina‚ with yellow waxy discharge
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