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The First Step in Managing Type 2 Diabetes

Sometimes, the answer is more straightforward than we were expecting. The best way to managing Type 2 Diabetes is one question that invites a simple answer – at least at first. Type 2 diabetes is a little more hopeful than Type 1 because the pancreas is still functioning and there’s some insulin in our bloodstream. […]

Hypoglycemia: Diabetes and a Delayed Christmas Dinner

My first memory about diabetes involved an incident of hypoglycemia on Christmas Day, quite some years back now. I had always been fascinated by the way my grandfather needed to give himself an injection before we ate but had never pieced it together properly; he has Type 1 Diabetes. This particular Christmas remains a stark […]

Insulin for Diabetes Management

One method for managing lack of insulin in the body for people with diabetes is to simply give some already formed insulin to them so that the body doesn’t need to produce it itself. Insulin for diabetes management is very common, particularly for people with Type 1 diabetes, when the cells needed to produce insulin have been destroyed and at […]

Signs and Symptoms of Diabetes (A quick but thorough guide)

This post is simple: a run down of the signs and symptoms of diabetes and, like always, a quick explanation of why they occur. Before we jump into it, I’d like to highlight a few relevant differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, covered earlier in this series. In Type 1 the body suddenly […]

Why We Need to Treat Diabetes (Is high blood sugar that bad?)

Why exactly is having high blood sugar so bad and why are we worried about it? Can our body function normally with a little too much glucose in our blood? Why do we need to treat diabetes? The aim of this post to give you the answers to these questions. We’ve already taken a look at what […]

What is Diabetes?

Put simply, diabetes is a disease that leads to symptoms due to ineffective insulin in the body. In this All About Diabetes series, we’re already covered how the body usually controls the glucose in the blood, so we know that insufficient insulin will probably result in high levels of glucose in the blood, also known as high blood […]

Blood Sugar Control in the Body

The human body is amazing, particularly when you get into the intricacies of it. Each part of the body is continually being monitored and everything is simultaneously kept in perfect balance. Among others, one of the things the body monitors and keeps balanced is blood sugar control, that is, the amount of glucose in our blood. […]

Series: All About Diabetes

In this All About Diabetes series, we are going to focus on diabetes and cover many aspects of the disease: understanding how it works, about symptoms and how we can treat it. Here are a few of the things that have got me concerned enough to dedicate ten days of writing to the cause. 382 million people […]

What to do if you Miss a Dose of The Pill

There are some things in life that are not my forte. Coordination is one. Organisation is another. Unfortunately, encompassed in this general lack of organisation skills I found yet another of my weaknesses: remembering to take the oral contraceptive pill on time. In this, I am not alone. Although the oral contraceptive pill is 99.7% effective […]

High Cholesterol: Should we look to diet or drugs?

When it comes to high cholesterol, should we focus on our diet or drugs to help control the condition? It’s an interesting question. I can remember my mother’s exasperation when she came up to the kitchen to find my father eating a bacon and egg sandwich dripping with fat one morning. “I thought you were […]