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Pregnancy Monitoring

Thiruvelan — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:07:22 +0000

Learn to monitor diabetes during pregnancy; frequency of blood-glucose monitoring, target glucose level, and diabetes relief.

Pregnancy blood-glucose monitoring frequency

For women who are, pregnancies with pre-existing diabetes both type 1 &2, experts recommend monitoring blood-glucose level for up to eight times a day. You should take this eight readings at; wake up, before each meal, one or two hours after food, at bedtime and occasionally at early morning (2 to 3 a.m.).

Pregnancy Ketoacidosis

Thiruvelan — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:32:41 +0000

Diabetic ketoacidosis is considering as a major cause of fetal loss in diabetes pregnancy. Learn ketoacidosis symptoms, treatment and prevention.

Diabetes pregnant ketoacidosis

Ketones in the blood and urine are due to starvation, during starvation your body starts to break down fat for energy and ketones released as a byproduct into the urine.

You should test ketones if any of the following exists,

Pregnancy Insulin Therapy

Thiruvelan — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:26:39 +0000

Learn insulin therapy during pregnancy - insulin analogue, insulin pump, insulin dose calculation and safe administration of insulin.

Diabetes pregnancy insulin therapy

Insulin therapy during pregnancy is considering to be safer and effective in diabetes management with proper blood-glucose control. Insulin treatment has no known side effects and considering as harmless during pregnancy.

Diabetes Pregnancy Hypoglycemia

Thiruvelan — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:14:10 +0000

Hypoglycemia during pregnancy for extended period can affect both you and your baby, thus to avoid it you need to know symptoms and proper treatment.

Hypoglycemia during pregnancy

Low blood glucoses do not seem to harm the baby. Hypoglycemia is more common in the first trimester; there will be fewer chances in later pregnancy due to development of insulin resistance. Animal studies show the hypoglycemia has to be extremely severe for an extended period before any harm could make to the baby.

About Insulin pump therapy

Thiruvelan — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:52:20 +0000

Learn about insulin pump therapy; we tried to cover most of the insulin-pump questions and information that stands before you.

About insulin pump

Insulin pump learning curve

Pump training may take a week, during this session patient and parents would attend hours of formal teaching sessions. Beyond this, the speed of learning and grasping varies depending on your interest and knowledge. However, they provide support daily or weekly until you learn to use it.

Insulin pump durability

Insulin Calculation

Thiruvelan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:35:52 +0000

Insulin dosage calculation starts by calculating total daily insulin requirement to total mealtime bolus insulin-dose.

Insulin-dose requirement calculation

The insulin-dose requirement begins by calculating total daily insulin requirement, basal & bolus dose, insulin to carbohydrate ratio, blood sugar correction factor, correction insulin dose, and total mealtime bolus insulin-dose.

Diabetes Diet Plan

Thiruvelan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:45:49 +0000

What is diabetes-diet plan? Personalize your diet rich in nutrients that exactly suit your body requirement without affecting your diabetes control.

Find your personalized diabetes diet plan

There is no single diet, which is considering as perfectly suitable for every patient with diabetes. With guidance from your doctor or dietician, you would find a correct diet for you by trial and testing. Once you have mastered on your diet, then managing your blood-glucose level become easier.

Diabetes Alcohol

Thiruvelan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:09:00 +0000

Can diabetics drink alcohol? Limit if have a health problem that alcohol can make worse, such as nerve damage or hypertension, otherwise no problem.

Can people with diabetes drink alcohol?

Before deciding to drink alcohol, ask yourself three basic questions:

Diabetes Smoking

Thiruvelan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:55:53 +0000

Smoking harms everyone and every body organ. In diabetes, smoking can affect diabetes management and multiply the risk of diabetes complications.

Smoking spoils your diabetes management

Numerous researchers show that people with diabetes who smoke have elevated blood-glucose levels; smoking makes their blood-glucose level management difficult to control and putting them at greater risk towards developing diabetes complications such as heart disease and stroke. Those who additionally have high blood pressure are even riskier for diabetes complications.

Diabetes Weight Loss

Thiruvelan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:24:06 +0000

Every diabetes losing weight can help get off insulin and other medications. Learn how diabetes safely loses their weight.