Diabetic Diet & Blood Gluecose

I am working on a project, and I would to come up with a contest that is ideal for people with diabetes. I just wanted to hear some ideas from people who have diabetes or anyone who knows someone with diabetes. I would truly appreciate it.

Anything from Marathon running and Cross Country to Chess. Actually we are encouraged to do any type of physical activity like playing tennis, golf, other hard sweaty activities and swimming. My doctor thinks anything that costs money like for court fees and greens fees is excellent, but doesn’t consider horse, llama, sheep showing to be good nor does he think agility training for dogs to be good.

I consider Agility training for dogs to be ideal for diabetes. Person has to run with dog through the course or the dog may miss turns and tunnels, ladders and ramps otherwise. I am training a 3 pound Chihuahua who can out run a cotton tail rabbit!

Show animals take strength and agility in the person and causes long walks teaching the animals to walk on lead.

Tennis, golf, etc all take $$$ to join a club and buy the necessary equipment before you can do it.

I have to write a little piece for school on the diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus, including how (if at all) it can be reliably diagnosed during an infective process such as pneumonia, where the patient is already hyperglycaemic. However, I can’t find a single thing anywhere on the web. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

AMAZING!Hope this helps! http://y101.info/97336/diabetes-mellitus

I am 31 1/2 weeks pregnant and failed my 3 hour glucose test. I am controlling my blood sugar with diet, but was wondering when high blood pressure usually starts with gestational diabetes? I had high blood pressure at the end of my last pregnancy and was induced at 37 weeks. I didn’t have gestational diabetes last time though.

Weird…I was also induced during my 1st pregnancy at 37 weeks due to preeclampsia (no GD that time) and had GD with my second pregnancy. My bp never got that high during my 2nd pregnancy, though it did slowly and steadily rise at the end.

My brother has diabetes 1 and he tells me sugar will help him get his sugar level back up when it is too low. The problem is he also has some liver damage. I told him I think fruit juice may be better than cake and chocolate bars.So what should he take when his blood sugar level is too low and would honey be a good thing for him.

Milk. It will raise the blood sugar enough without spiking it like fruit juices do.

Is diabetes mellitus the specific name for type one diabetes or does mean both type one and two.

Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes—is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. This high blood sugar produces the classical symptoms of polyuria (frequent urination), polydipsia (increased thirst) and polyphagia (increased hunger).

There are three main types of diabetes:

Type 1 diabetes: results from the body’s failure to produce insulin, and presently requires the person to inject insulin. (Also referred to as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM for short, and juvenile diabetes.)
Type 2 diabetes: results from insulin resistance, a condition in which cells fail to use insulin properly, sometimes combined with an absolute insulin deficiency. (Formerly referred to as non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, NIDDM for short, and adult-onset diabetes.)
Gestational diabetes: is when pregnant women, who have never had diabetes before, have a high blood glucose level during pregnancy. It may precede development of type 2 DM.
Other forms of diabetes mellitus include congenital diabetes, which is due to genetic defects of insulin secretion, cystic fibrosis-related diabetes, steroid diabetes induced by high doses of glucocorticoids, and several forms of monogenic diabetes.

So simply diabetes mellitus is the specific medical name for all three main Diabetes type 1 , Diabetes type 2, Diabetes gestational (pregnancy related) and other forms that are listed above.

Hope this helps.

My teacher-a pharmacist- is asking us that question and we have already researched that there is Diabetes Insipidus and Diabetes Mellitus but what i want to know is how this diabetes is caused. Like a mechanism of action type of deal.

I have diabetes insipidus. Another name for this is "water diabetes". It has nothing to do with blood sugar,insulin, or the pancreas. It has to do with the hormone ADH and it usually is caused by a defect in the pituitary gland or the kidneys. Treatment usually consists of taking a hormone tablet daily. A person has to really watch out with this disease because dehydration can occur, no matter how much water is ingested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_insipidus

Diabetes mellitus- deals with the pancreas , insulin, blood sugar. Treatment for this is much more complicated. Diet changes, exercise, and possibly insulin shots, and med’s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus

Somebody told me I might have diabetes because I am overly thirsty.
Is that true?
How do I tell if I have diabetes?
There are different types right?
What are they?

1,2

symptoms for Diabetes

rapid breathing/ trouble breathing
depression is be link to it to
boils is a sight to doctor say
exhausting
headaches, back pain, aching muscles, and stomach pain
Excessive thirst and appetite
Increased urination (sometimes as often as every hour)
Unusual weight loss or gain
Fatigue
Nausea, perhaps vomiting
Blurred vision
In women, frequent vaginal infections
In men and women, yeast infections
Trouble getting or maintaining an erection
Dry mouth
•Lack of interest and concentration
Slow-healing sores or cuts
Itching skin, especially in the groin or vaginal
numbness/tingling in the hands/feet
i have it 5 years now ,my sister 15 year old have it since she was 6
run in both of of my family my ma sisters and brothers have it and their kids and also their kids
my da mother had it and die from it in 2005 98 years old and his brothers and sisters and their kids had it to we are over run with 1 ,2

Common symptoms for lows include the following:
Trembling
Clamminess
Palpitations
Anxiety
Sweating
Hunger

Because the brain is deprived of glucose, a second set of symptoms follows:
Difficulty in thinking
Confusion
Headache
Seizures
Coma
Ultimately, death

Gestational diabetes
During pregnancy body releases a lot of harmone which may sometimes interfere with the body’s usual response to insulin, which develops insulin resistance like the type 2 diabetes. Gestational diabetes is fully treatable but requires careful medical supervision throughout the pregnancy. It may improve or disappear after delivery. About 20%–50% of affected women develop type 2 diabetes

There are 2 tests for Gestational Diabetes. A one hour fasting glucose test and a 3 hour test. In both cases, you drink a special drink that is very high in glucose (sugar) on an empty stomach and they test to see how your body handles the sugar.

If they said you had slightly high sugar, you probably did the one hour test. To double check, they are bringing you in for the 3 hour test.

Make sure you have totally fasted…no food or drink other than water for 8 hours before the test. Eating before the test will effect your sugar numbers after the test. After you drink the drink…go for a walk…move around, don’t just sit or lay down. Moving and exercise lowers blood sugar.

If you do get diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes, it is a real concern. One thing to remember is, you will not have diabetes when you have the baby. Giving birth cures Gestational Diabetes. Doctors do not know what causes it during pregnancy and there is no real way to fix it if it happens. You should eat a whole food diet, stay away from processed foods, foods with additives (diet cokes, fast food…) and eat high protein. (try to get 100grams a day).

Gestational Diabetes can cause the baby to grow large and cause complications toward the end of pregnancy. Symptoms to look for are – Sudden extreme swelling of the feet, hands and face (not normal swelling…sudden and extreme), pain under the ribs on the left side of your body. If that happens, call the doc right away.

The doc will work with you, rest and diet to help manage the diabetes to get you as far along in the pregnancy as possible. You CAN carry full term with hard work. However, if your sugar numbers continue to rise and go out of control along with getting the symptoms above, they will have to induce labor or send you for a c-section around 36-38 weeks.

If is fairly common and can be managed. Read up on it and talk with your doctor.

I have had my friends grandma who is a nurse tell me she thinks that I might be becoming diabetic. And It runs in my family. Lately I have been feeling kind of sick and my weight has been really weird. What are all the signs of diabetes in young teenage girls?
Im 15.

Excessive thirst.
Excessive need to urinate, particularly at night.
Tiredness and listlessness.
Weight loss, even if appetite remains the same or increases.
Thrush or genital itching.
Blurred vision.
An increased healing time for cuts, scratches and scrapes.
Irritability or short temper.
Cramps or constipation (more common for Type II diabetes).

Some of my family has diabetes and some of my boyfriends does to. Does that mean the baby has a high chance of being born with diabetes?
I’m 4 months pregnant now.

I believe the person that crazyowl intended you should speak to is a geneticist, though most well-informed doctors would know of the figures relating to increased risk of having close relatives with diabetes and how this COULD affect offspring.

I have to do a research paper about humanity and I was wondering if diabetes would be considered a humanity topic. I am planning to write and focus about diabetes and what we should know about it. So should I go for it?

No, humanity topics deal mainly with philanthropy, giving to the homeless, creating schools or institutions in underprivileged areas.

Humane ity, the act of being kind to others