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Type 1 Diabetes When You Are Sick with a Cold, Flu, or Stomach Virus
Getting “real people” sick with type 1 diabetes inevitably comes with a variety of extra concerns because a severe virus, cold, or infection ...
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Food & Nutrition
Dosing Insulin for Dietary Fat: How Fat Affects Your Blood Sugar
The moment we’re diagnosed with diabetes, we’re taught that carbohydrates have the biggest impact on our blood sugar -- and this is true -- ...
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How to Bring High Blood Sugar Down Fast
Everyone with diabetes is bound to experience high blood sugars. There are simply too many variables out of our control to prevent high ...
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How to Stop Binge-Eating During Low Blood Sugars
A habit of binge-eating during low blood sugars can wreak havoc on your blood sugar levels, your energy, your weight, and your daily life. ...
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What is the Somogyi Effect (the Blood Sugar Rebound Effect)?
There is a lengthy list of things that can easily spike your blood sugar, but the Somogyi Effect might be one of the strangest. Let’s ...
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Health & Lifestyle
Insulin Resistance: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment Options
Insulin resistance is at the center of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes can also develop significant insulin ...
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Glycosuria (Sugar in Urine): Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
Measuring the amount of sugar in your bloodstream is a normal part of everyday life with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Measuring the sugar in ...
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7 Ways to Simplify Type 1 Diabetes Management
Living with type 1 diabetes will never be easy (until they find that cure, of course), but there are definitely things we can do to make it ...
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Can People with Diabetes Donate Blood?
Donating blood once or on a regular basis saves lives. Just one session of blood donation can impact many lives -- but as a person with type ...
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Type 2 Diabetes in Children & Teens
Just a few decades ago, type 2 diabetes in children or teenagers was considered extremely rare. By the mid-1990s, health professionals ...
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Diabetes and Polyphagia (Excessive Hunger)
One of the most challenging aspects of living with diabetes is that it can make you extra hungry for the one thing that affects your blood ...
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LADA Diabetes (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults)
For some people with diabetes, the first challenging obstacle you might face is simply getting an accurate diagnosis. LADA is a type of ...
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Health & Lifestyle
Diabetes & Heart Disease: What You Need to Know
Your blood sugar levels impact every part of your body -- including your heart. And many of the same habits and health issues that increase ...
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Emotional Health
Diabetes and Anxiety: Everything You Need to Know
Anxiety is very common in people with diabetes, and for good reason. In life with diabetes -- type 1 or type 2 -- there can be a constant ...
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Pregnancy & Parenting
Pregnancy and Type 1 Diabetes: Everything You Need to Know
Pursuing pregnancy as a woman with type 1 diabetes is something many women may not have considered safe just a couple of decades ago. Today, ...
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Diabetic Neuropathy: Symptoms & Treatment Options
Diabetic neuropathy may be common, but it isn’t something we should take lightly. It can be very painful and can put you at risk for other ...
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Insulin Side Effects: What You Need to Know
For people with type 1 diabetes and for some with type 2, daily insulin injections are absolutely critical. But insulin is a very ...
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Pregnancy & Parenting
Gestational Diabetes: Everything You Need to Know
Pregnancy is an incredible experience, and for some women, it can also be incredibly challenging. One of those potential challenges is ...
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Diabetes and Sugar Alcohols: What You Need to Know
If you’ve experienced even one Valentine’s Day or Christmas since you were diagnosed with diabetes then you’ve likely eaten a few of those ...