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How to Prepare for Diabetes Surgery
As soon as you find out you need surgery, you will see a surgeon for a preoperative visit. The first thing you need to tell the surgeon is that you…
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How to Prepare Food for Diabetic Children
As with adults, a diabetic child's nutritional needs are basically the same as those of children who do not have diabetes. If this sounds too easy to be true, it…
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How to Live with Family and Friends When You Have Diabetes
Your family and friends need to get used to the fact that you have diabetes. The disease has its greatest impact on you, but it also affects the people around…
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How to Manage Your Diabetes While You Are Sick
Everyone gets colds and the flu. Most people fall victim to food poisoning once or twice. Few people fail to stay away from the surgeon's knife or the dentist's pliers…
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How to Participate in a Diabetes Support Groups
At some time during your life as a diabetic, you may want to participate in a support group or become active in a diabetes organization; therefore, knowing something about your…
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How to Learn Relaxation Techniques
Meditation can take many forms. In its purest form, it is a Buddhist religious practice, but anyone can use the technique of meditation, and it need not be religious. It…
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How to Lower Your Blood Glucose If You Come Hyperglycemic
You have hyperglycemia when your blood glucose is 180 mg/dl or higher, when measured at the same time of day, for three or more days in a row. However, there…
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How to Make the Insulin Injection Process Less Painful for Your Child
You may have felt as though you were going to faint the first time you gave your child an insulin injection, and you may still be a little shaky. You…
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How to Make Trips for Diabetics Easier to Deal with
Even if you are going on a much-needed and much-anticipated vacation, and even if you love to travel, it has its stressful momerits. Will you make it to the airport…
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How to Manage Your Fat and Cholesterol to Prevent Diabetes
Dolores had a harder time controlling her intake of fat than of sugar. This is probably true of many of us because fat, even more than sugar, is what makes…
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How to Develop a Positive Attitude with Diabetes
Developing a positive attitude is one of the most important things you can do, and it may be difficult to accomplish if you live and work in a highly stressful…
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How to Deal with Women Sexual Dysfunctions Caused by Diabetes
Menstruation Some diabetic women experience a rise in blood glucose two to four days before their menstrual period. This increase is due to elevated levels of estrogen and progesterone, probably…
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How to Deal with Men’s Sexual Dysfunctions Caused by Diabetes
Impotence Many men are more afraid of the possibility of impotence than they are of the side effects of diabetes. Impotence, defined as the inability to achieve or sustain an…
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How to Deal with Emotional Factors of Childhood Diabetes
Childhood diabetes has been described as feeling like a bomb that goes off in a family. In some respects this is an apt description because lives are forever altered and…
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How to Deal with Diabetes with Intensive Therapy
Intensive diabetes therapy is an attempt to imitate the way a normal pancreas responds to the body's need for insulin. It involves frequent blood glucose testing (four or five times…
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How to Deal with Adolescence with Diabetes
This is the time when children will begin to accept full responsibility for managing their diabetes. A young person with a driver's license, a pack of college applications in a…
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How to Cope with Job Discrimination When You Have Diabetes
Legally, you cannot be discriminated against because you have diabetes. Legally, you cannot be discriminated against because of your gender or religion. But legal restrictions have about as much to…
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How to Cope with Stress When You Have Diabetes
When you begin to feel stressed about your diabetes, think about how much of what you are feeling is necessary and how much is not. It is natural to experience…
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How to Deal with Diabetes and Depression
When anger, grief, and denial are directed inward, they can turn into energy-sapping depression. Not only is this not helpful, it can be debilitating. You need all the strength you…
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How to Deal with Diabetes during Pregnancy
Although pregnant women with diabetes are considered high risk, their survival rate and that of their infants is the same as nondia-betic women. There are, however, things about which diabetic…