PERSONAL STORY: REVERSING ILNESSES There I was again at the doctor’s office and expecting my second child‚ when I heard it again: “Mrs. Melgar your blood sugar is a little high again” “You have gestational diabetes”. I have heard the same diagnosis before when I was expecting my first child and I had not done anything about it‚ after all‚ the doctor had told me that it will go away after my pregnancy was over. And I thought it did. Did I need to worry this second time around? A little inside
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Introduction Diabetes the silent killer. Doesn’t sound very scary does it but don’t be fooled. This disease is very deadly. Could you see yourself engaging in any normal everyday activity‚ then all the sudden a major organ or organs began to fail and shutdown without any warning sign? And the cause is because you have high blood sugars that go unchecked and unregulated for so long it was silently putting stress and damaging your insides. Well today I’ll show you how a person with type one diabetes keeps
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child of five siblings in a family of eight‚ including his parents. He grew up in his childhood home of a middle class family. His father worked for a utility company‚ and his mother was a teacher. At the age of eleven‚ Richard was diagnosed with Diabetes. His parents were slightly supportive of his illness‚ whereas his siblings were not. In his childhood home‚ it consisted of unhealthy foods‚ and there were no engagement in physical activities. Richard showed no interest in playing sports in high
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of fruits‚ proteins and whole grains. Environmental determinants of diabetes We constantly interact with our environment in which we live in and
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its importance to Diabetes Numbers play a part in our everyday lives and diabetics are no exception. With diabetes people are need to count carbohydrates and calories‚ adjust insulin doses‚ and track blood glucose readings. An example of math and diabetes is a person may need 20 grams of carbohydrate and that person has crackers which contain 2 grams of carbohydrate how many do they need to get the necessary carbohydrates. Without the skills of math‚ the task of managing diabetes becomes a dangerous
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The role of nurses in gestational diabetes. (DIABETES CARE)(Brief Article) Journal of Diabetes Nursing | May 1‚ 2003 | Assignment 2 Research studies‚ recently conducted in America‚ have found that diet and exercise play an important role in predisposing a woman for gestational diabetes (GD). This study compared the rate of insulin treatment and perinatal outcome in women with gestational diabetes under endocrinologist-based versus diabetes nurse-based metabolic management. A total of 244 participants
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the situation and everyone did what they supposed to do. Dr. Brookter opened the meeting with two videos about diabetes‚ and gave a briefing about them. After the videos‚ each of the guests told us about the day when they found out they had Diabetes. Their stories were compelling‚
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Introduction to Diabetes Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels that result from defects in insulin secretion‚ or its action‚ or both. Diabetes mellitus‚ commonly referred to as diabetes was first identified as a disease associated with "sweet urine‚" and excessive muscle loss in the ancient world. Elevated levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia) lead to spillage of glucose into the urine‚ hence the term sweet urine. Normally‚ blood
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DISEASE AND DIABETES MELLITUS The relationship between diabetes mellitus and periodontal disease has been extensively examined. It is clear from epidemiologic research that diabetes increases Periodontal Medicine • CHAPTER 13 237 the risk for and severity of periodontal diseases.59 The biologic mechanisms through which diabetes influences the periodontium are discussed in Chapter 12. The increased prevalence and severity of periodontitis commonly seen in patients with diabetes‚ especially
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1. Liver disease can occur due to diabetes & so can diabetes occur due to liver disease. The liver disease occurring due to diabetes‚ primarily type 2 diabetes is called Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). Type 2 diabetes is metabolic condition causing elevated blood glucose levels due to either the lack of production of insulin or the body’s inability to utilize insulin efficiently (PubMed‚ n.d). NAFLD or commonly called fatty liver‚ occurs due to impairment of the liver cells to effectively
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