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How to Deal with Hypoglycemia
Most of the diabetics who suffer occasional bouts of hypoglycemia are those who take insulin. It is rarer, but not unknown, in people who take oral hypoglycemic agents. You have…
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How to Use Alcohol in Diabetes Meal Planning
It is a common belief that diabetics are not allowed to drink any alcohol at all. This is not true, but you should drink it in moderation because alcohol has…
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How to Use Insulin Infusion Pump for Diabetes
The insulin infusion pump is a major advance in diabetes therapy. This is a device about the size of a pager, worn outside the body, that pumps the required amount…
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How to Avoid Acute Asthma in Your Everyday Life
cAvoidance is the most important key to asthma management. We must identify and learn to avoid the situations that trigger the disease. There are some obvious ways to avoid trigger…
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How to Teach Your Diabetes Child to Understand the Significance of Self Blood Glucose Monitoring
As important as teaching children to give their own insulin is teaching them to understand the significance of self blood glucose monitoring and teaching them to use the monitor themselves.…
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How to Do Chest and Breathing Exercises for Treatment Asthma
Providing a clear nasal airway is just the first step toward clearing the lungs. There are some simple exercises you can learn and use to improve your breathing between and…
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How to Avoid Asthma Attacks During Pregnancy
There is nothing about asthma that makes pregnancy more or less likely to occur. Asthma does not interfere with conception, nor does it make getting pregnant easier. For the most…
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How to Test Your Blood Sugar Level
The first thing you have to do is start lowering your blood glucose levels. The most important aspect of diabetes care is keeping your blood glucose levels within a normal…
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How to Treat Diabetes in Children, Adolescents, and the DCCT
Treating children and adolescents with diabetes used to focus on keeping blood glucose in reasonably good control while steering them through their various hormonal and psychosocial changes and illnesses. Glucose…
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How to Tell Your Child about Diabetes
You were probably floored when you found out that your child has diabetes. When you recovered from the shock, you may have experienced plenty of other emotions: anger, guilt, fear,…
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How to Take Care of Your Teeth When You Have Diabetes
Good dental care can prevent gum infection, abscesses, and other dental problems that result in elevated blood glucose. There are four main elements: proper brushing and flossing, filling cavities, treating…
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How to Take Care of Your Skin When You Have Diabetes
Diabetics have the same skin problems as everyone else— and then some, especially if their diabetes is in poor control. First, their skin can become excessively dry. This can be…
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How to Take Care of Middle Childhood with Diabetes
Most youngsters in this age group can master at least part of their own diabetes management. Seven- or eight-year-olds can use a blood glucose monitor, and by age eight or…
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How to Stay in the Military If You Have Diabetes
The military is a tough nut to crack. Although the actual rules about diabetics in the military have eased somewhat, you still may not enlist if you already have the…
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How to Shop Smart to Manage Your Diabetes
An important part of planning meals is going to the grocery store and buying the ingredients for what you've planned to eat. "Come on," you may be thinking, "I've been…
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How to Save Money Treating Diabetes
Much of your diabetes care is covered by health insurance, but some is not. However, even items that are covered (not including office visits to health professionals) require you to…
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How to Reduce Calories for Your Diet
People eat for a variety of reasons, many of them having nothing to do with hunger. They eat as a social function, because they're bored, depressed, or elated, or as…
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How to React in Front of Your Diabetes Children
The way you react to and handle problems of daily life has a profound effect on the way your children perceive those problems and the way they eventually learn to…
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How to Prevent Kidney Problems When You Have Diabetes
Diabetic nephropathy, or disease of the kidneys, is caused by a mechanism similar to that of diabetic retinopathy: damage to blood vessels and nephrons as a result of long-term high…
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How to Prepare for Obstetrical Care with Diabetes
Some women, when they realize they are pregnant, wait a few months to begin prenatal obstetrical care. Diabetics should not do that. You must make an appointment with your obstetrician-gynecologist…