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Morning Sunshine is Good for Diabetes Patients

March 26th, 2011 admin

vitamin D

vitamin D

Morning sunshine is good for Diabetes Patients. Morning sunlight was not only good for healthy bone, but also beneficial for diabetics. Vitamin D is present in sunlight can help improve blood sugar levels. A recent study found that vitamin D is found the body when exposed to sunlight in the morning can help people with diabetes type 2  improve their blood sugar levels.

Adequate vitamin D could actually help the cells in the body in charge of producing insulin work properly. Researchers from Iran involving 90 people with type 2 diabetes for 12 weeks by giving vitamin D and one group was given vitamin D plus calcium.

Researchers find participants who took vitamin D plus calcium whether or not to have blood sugar levels that are significantly better. In fact, another study published in Diabetes Care showed low levels of vitamin D that can make adults at risk of prediabetes and prehypertension.

Besides taking supplements containing vitamin D and calcium can slow the progression of type 2 diabetes. Because of this relationship that allows the screening of vitamin D deficiency in people with diabetes type 2 could have been done. The sun’s rays before 9 am can provide many benefits for health such as reducing blood cholesterol levels, improve the quality of breathing, making the body become more fresh and can be healthy bones.

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Artificial Pancreas for Diabetes Type 1

January 26th, 2011 admin

Diabetes Type 1

Diabetes Type 1

Artificial pancreas for diabetes type 1 has been planned. People with diabetes type 1 (genetic factors) caused a disturbance so that the pancreas can not produce insulin properly. Now the scientists plan to create an artificial pancreas. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has chosen the Animas, Johnson & Johnson unit to develop and test this new system. Artificial pancreas is a pump system that will monitor the management of insulin for diabetes type 1.

Animas, which makes insulin pumps will work with a foundation to create a wireless system combining continuous glucose monitoring devices, insulin pumps and sophisticated software.

Expected future free from the routine of diabetics to check blood sugar levels and inject insulin. In addition, this tool also can control and make sure their blood sugar levels are not too low or too high. The goal for this tool to check the blood throughout the day and give insulin as needed without needing to be done by patients themselves. This means it takes two devices in the body of an insulin pump and glucose monitoring system.

Diabetes Type 1 is an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakenly destroys the cells were in the pancreas that make insulin, so the body can not use the existing glucose. If untreated, the blood vessels and nerves are damaged, there was failure of one organ that can lead to death. This disease can be diagnosed from the children or as adults.

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Diabetes Patients Do Not Walk on Asphalt

October 8th, 2010 admin

Diabetes

Diabetes

Diabetes patients often complain of tingling. Ancient advice to walk barefoot on the asphalt did not resolve the complaint, even trigger other more serious impact. Ancient times people believe, walking barefoot on hot asphalt to stimulate the nerve so as not to frequent tingling. However, this suggestion should not be followed, especially for persons with diabetes.

Patients with diabetes should be very concerned about footwear. Not just to protect your feet from the possibility of stepping on sharp objects, footwear must also be able to prevent injuries that occur due to pressure from the foot itself. In diabetes, the problem wound in the leg is the most frightening complications after heart and blood vessel problems. Often the injury is too late to get treatment because it is difficult to cure, so that developed into a severe infection that ended with the amputation.

Therefore, the foot should receive special treatment such as facial skin. Even if about to perform his own maintenance, things that must be considered are as follows.

  • Scissors toenails properly on a regular basis
  • Maintain cleanliness of the crack on the sidelines
  • Eliminate the ship or thickening of the skin, because it can cause injury due to pressure on the skin surface around the ship.
  • If the injury occurs, treat with diligence in order to recover as quickly as possible.
  • Select the appropriate footwear, not to put pressure on the soles of the feet. Customize with deformities or changes in shape of the foot.
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Maternal Diabetes and Effects On Babies

July 27th, 2010 admin
Maternal Diabetes

Maternal Diabetes

Maternal diabetes or women with diabetes during pregnancy can still have healthy babies. But if diabetes can not be controlled properly, chances are there will be serious consequences that can be owned by the baby. Diabetes that occurs in pregnant women during pregnancy caused by hormones in the body makes insulin more difficult to use, so that the pancreas has to work harder.

For pregnant women who pancreas to work properly, the condition of her pregnancy would not be a problem. But when the pancreas can not meet the demand for insulin, the blood sugar levels can be increased so that the cause of diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes). Most of the diabetes will disappear after the baby is delivered, although more exposed to higher risk when women were pregnant again. There is some impact on the baby if pregnant women get diabetes:

1. Excess blood sugar and insulin can cause the baby has more fat, especially in his upper body so that the weight becomes large. This condition called macrosomia and the possibility of a baby is too big to be born through the normal process so that more birth by Caesarean. Some time after the baby is born, there is a chance the baby has low blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia). This is due to excess body still produces insulin in response of high glucose intake of the mother.

2. Infants exposed to higher risk of jaundice, polycuthemia (increased number of red blood cells in the blood) and hypocalcemia (low calcium levels in the blood).

3. If control of blood sugar levels are bad, there is the possibility of infant cardiac function could be affected.

4. As for the pregnant mother two times higher risk of pre-eclampsia.

Gestational diabetes generally has no specific symptoms. That is why almost all pregnant women need to check glucose levels at 24-28 weeks of gestation. If the result shows positive, it would require a good blood sugar control and maintain their food intake. Pregnant women are vulnerable to get diabetes if you have excess weight, a history of previous gestational diabetes or have a history of strong diabetes in the family.

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Threat of Pre-Diabetes Before Diabetes

July 11th, 2010 admin

Diabetes

Diabetes

Threat of pre-diabetes should beware before its become diabetes. The people affected by diabetes usually begins with the affected prediabetes. So it is aware of the signs of prediabetes, because prediabates still be cured but if it was affected by diabetes will be difficult to recover. Diabetes is a scourge for health, because the disease is incurable and degenerative diseases can cause dangerous complications. Beware of blood sugar before it’s too late prediabetes to diabetes.

Prediabetes condition should not be taken lightly, because most individuals with prediabetes will develop into diabetes if not handled properly. Someone said to suffer from prediabetes or Intermediate Hyperglycemia if blood sugar levels have exceeded the normal limits, but has not reached the limit of diagnosis of diabetes.

Sugar levels normal range 80-140 mg / dl (the condition is not fasting, 2 hours after meals). Well, if blood sugar has reached 140 mg/dl-200 mg / dl had prediabetes category. While the blood sugar above 200 mg / dl in the category of diabetes. Individuals with prediabetes are not addressed, in about 5-10 years will rise to diabetes. And if you have diabetes, an incurable and more difficult to handle.

Progress of diabetes does not occur suddenly, but through several stages. Starting from lifestyle risk factors, especially obesity (overweight) and less motion. If not controlled going into the prediabetes stage. Risk of complications of cardiovascular disease (heart and blood vessels) has been started since prediabetes. Therefore, individuals with prediabetes requires adequate management, including changes in a more healthy lifestyle in order to improve the profile of glycemia (blood sugar) and reduce cardiovascular risk.

There are several steps that must be performed in individuals with prediabetes, namely:

1. For those who have excess weight (obesity) need to lose weight 5-10 percent of initial body weight and maintained in the long term.
2. Perform moderate and regular physical activity, recommended for 30-60 minutes per day, at least 4 days in a week or a minimum of 150 minutes / week.
3. Avoiding stress
4. Set up a healthy diet, reduce the consumption of sugar and fat, and multiply the consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Not the same with diabetes, individuals with prediabetes can return to normal. Thus, the required height for the individual consciousness to transform into a healthier lifestyle

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Fruit Diet for Diabetes Patients

July 5th, 2010 admin

Fruit Diet

Fruit Diet

Fruit diet for diabetes patients is important. People with diabetes do have pretty good care of his food, including sweet fruits. But that does not mean that diabetics should not eat fruit. What fruit are allowed and should not be consumed by people with diabetes? Diabetics can not eat food carelessly let alone related to glucose, hence the strict controls required to minimize the adverse impacts that may arise.

Sweet on the fruit comes from fruit or sugar known as fructose. But there are some fruits that contain glucose and diabetes should avoid it. The fruit is recommended for patients with diabetes (low glucose content), among others:
1. Avocado
2. Apple
3. Pears
4. Orange

Fruits that should be avoided for patients with diabetes (high glucose content), among others:
1. Duren
2. Banana
3. Mango
4. Pineapple
5. Soursop
6. Jackfruit
7. Sapodilla

People with diabetes should set time to consume fruit, such as 2 servings at breakfast, 1 serving as a snack, 2 servings when eating fruit, 3 at dinner and 2 at bedtime. Servings of fruits which are intended depends on the type and large fruit. Small size fruit such as grapes, strawberries, blueberries 1 serving equals 5 pieces. Size medium such as apples, oranges, pears, bananas 1 serving equals 1 fruit. Large size fruit such as watermelon and cantaloupe 1 serving is 1 slice with a piece of medium.

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