Diabetes Diabetes is a disease in which your body is unable to properly use and store glucose. Glucose backs up in the bloodstream causing your blood glucose or "sugar" to rise too high. There are two major types of diabetes‚ Type I and Type II. In Type I diabetes‚ your body completely stops producing any insulin‚ a hormone that lets your body use glucose found in foods for energy. People with Type I diabetes must take daily insulin injections to survive. This form of diabetes usually develops
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Effect of Diabetes on Healthcare and Nursing It can be argued that there is no greater health concern in the world‚ and in particular‚ the United States than the rapidly increasing number of people diagnosed with diabetes. Relatively recent changes to the diet and lifestyle of the general public have created a "perfect storm" of conditions that seem to perpetuate the onset of diabetes in an increasing number of people on a daily basis. According to the American Diabetes Association‚ the annual
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Family Life with Type One Diabetes Type one diabetes affect more than the person who has it‚ it affects everyone around them too. Family life changes to adjust to the person with diabetes. Type one diabetes affects your family financially‚ emotional‚ physical and structurally Type one diabetes is hard‚ but families that work together can help make the person who has ‚ its life a little easier. Type one Diabetes has a way to of hurting the people and the people around them. One way it does hurt
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How will Diabetes Affect Our Body and Lives? Shannon Ashley HS200 Section #4 Unit 4 Capstone Project: Diabetes Kaplan University May 12‚ 2014 The first steps in understanding your diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes is understanding the disease and how it affects you. What do you need to know? First‚ you will need to know what diabetes is and how it affects your body and your life. You will need to know what type of diabetes you have. Next you have to know how to manage your
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Diabetes Explanation to a 13yr Adolescent Male The doctor has wanted me to come in here and explain to you about diabetes. Diabetes is a common disease. Anyone can end up with diabetes but there some people that are at a higher risk for the disease than others. People‚ for example‚ that are not very active and they are overweight. People who have real close family like a mom or dad‚ that have diabetes are also at a higher risk for diabetes. Diabetes effects the endocrine system in our bodies‚
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hemoglobin A1C level is below 5.7. If it is between 5.7 and 6.4‚ then you are considered a pre-diabetic. You are a diabetic if your A1C test shows that your number is above 6.5. There are ways that you can lower your A1C levels and get your diabetes or pre-diabetes under control. However‚ there are roadblocks that you may encounter. Below is a list of barriers that prevent you from getting your hemoglobin A1C under control: Not Following Your Doctor’s Plan Everybody is different. That is why doctors
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manage Type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes can be life threatening and can cause a lot of other illnesses to occur. Some people cope with it all wrong and end up in quite a pickle‚ like losing their sight or worst die from it. People think that they are fine if they keep taking pills but they need to check their blood sugar regularly to ensure that it’s indeed high before they do so. Also‚ taking pills is not the only thing you need to do. Some things that you can do if you have diabetes are: Check
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Kytela Medearis Biology I 13 March 2013 Diabetes Mellitus: Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia. Most of us love sugar‚ right? We love coming home and just snacking on the yummiest foods we can find‚ foods that are not particularly good for us. When Halloween comes around we cannot wait to fill our pillowcases with candy‚ and go home and stuff our faces with all of the goodies. But did you know that people who are diabetic aren’t able to do that? Before eating anything; they have to check their blood
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A Medical Literature Review on a Case of Type 1 Diabetes Lindsay Chandler 3/23/2015 Abstract Type 1 diabetes a serious disease that requires lifelong monitoring and treatment. This paper first discusses the major risk factors associated with type 1 diabetes. Following this discussion is a description of an individual living with type 1 diabetes. Finally‚ the results from a literature review on type 1 diabetes are discussed. From this literature review‚ it was found that there are many modifiable
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A Case Study in Type II Diabetes Charlotte D. McKamie Nursing Theory In Orem’s theory of self care‚ she presents the precept that the nurse’s role in helping the chronically ill patient is to assist them to achieve an optimal level of health and wellness‚ and to give them the tools they need to maintain it. Orem believed that the nurse should act as an advocate‚ redirector‚ support person‚ and teacher‚ and‚ thereby‚ guide the patient to therapeutic development. Her theory is of interest to me
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