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This updated edition includes a wider variety of food and beverages and more culturally diverse choices. Combination and fast foods choices have also been expanded. Includes tips on exercise, eating healthy in restaurants, reading food labels, and includes a glossary of diabetes-related terms…. More >>
Choose Your Foods: Exchange Lists for Diabetes
Stephanie Kuleba died from complications incurred during surgery to correct an asymmetry in her breasts and an inverted areola.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/PainManagement/story?id=4520099
This is not an isolated incident. After cancer and heart disease, the biggest killer in the United States is the medical profession.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis#Incidence_and_importance
A lot of people on this forum have been calling for prison time for the parents who chose prayer over medicine for their daughter, who subsequently died from complications of diabetes. But here is a case where the parents chose medicine over prayer, and their daughter died as a result. So should the parents go to prison? Give reasons for your answer.
And yes, I know prayer would not have corrected the asymmetry in her breasts. But it wouldn’t have killed her, either.
Oh, and by the way: Report Trolls: Go ahead and do your worst, but if you must report me, try to think of a more plausible excuse than accusing me of “chatting.” Sheesh.
A third-generation atheist
To Deuce: did you read the question?
To gorgeustx: did you read the question?
To Om: You wrote:
Its not ‘medicine over prayer’ then is it? Its ‘medicine over nothing’.
That’s fine. I won’t quibble with that.
To Paula: did you read the question?
To christlike: did you read the question?
To dragoriana: I know she was past her eighteenth birthday. But she was stil living at home, still going to high school Her relationship with her parents was clearly still that of a dependent child. And I doubt she payed for the surgery herself.
To bloodflow: You wrote:
“There was no reason to think that the surgery would have killed her, none at all.”
You mean no one has ever died of complications from surgery before this?
To chriswswife: Did you read the question?
To LeslieAnn: did you read the question?
To ed: You wrote:
“Every surgery presents risk.”
Yeah. That’s my point.
To swanngranny: Did you read the question?
I will be living in USA soon and need to choose a health insurance plan. I am 53 years old have type II diabetes and blood pressure for which I take daily medication. My wife 50 and children 21 and 18 are all in good health. So what should I do? Which insurance to choose? How much should it cost for the whole family for a year?
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Loose fitting tops stretch over ankle for ease of dressing. Tops bounce back for a comfort fit without binding the leg. The loose fit of these socks provides for better blood circulation, so important for diabetics and people with circulatory problems or neuropathy. Sock Size 9-11 typically fits women with shoe sizes 5 thru 9.
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I’m working on a research project on diabetic devices and how they could be improved, also, my dad has mild diabetes, and I had some questions.
It seems like there are many types and brands of glucose monitoring and insulin delivery devices with a variety of different features, some better than others, but I don’t understand how a person comes to choose and buy a particular device.
Does the doctor prescribe a specific kind, or do they give you a prescription for an insulin pump say, then you have a choice of what brand? Do you shop around? Does your insurance only cover certain types?
If you do have a choice, how do you learn about the different available devices?
Are there certain ones that are like the “iPod” of diabetic devices — the one everyone has or the one everyone wants to have?
If someone who has diabetes or knows someone who does could explain the process you/they use, I’d really appreciate it!
Diabetic meter is an essential tool when it comes to purchasing diabetic supplies. It works towards monitoring the blood glucose levels in your body. When purchasing a diabetic meter, there are several things you need to consider in order to choose the best for yourself.
Here are certain things you need to consider when purchasing a diabetic meter:
a) Testing area
Certain blood glucose meters allow you to test on your palm, forearm or finger. Make sure you know exactly which testing area is convenient for you.
b) Sample size
A blood glucose meter may require anything between 0.3 and 1.5 micro liters of blood.
c) Speed
Different blood glucose meter provide result in different time period. An efficient diabetic meter will provide you the result just within 5 seconds.
d) Ease of use
The diabetic meter you purchase should be able to provide you excellent and accurate results with ease of use. Make sure that the diabetic meter you purchase is easy to use.
e) Meal averages
Consult your health care practitioner or diabetes educator and know about meal averages. Certain diabetic meters are efficient enough to provide you before and after meal averages.
f) Suitably of use by children
When purchasing a diabetes meter, you need to consider the suitability for use by children who are under ten years old. Usually kids have a hard time when opening foil-wrapped strips. They often forget to record the results obtained by the diabetes meter. Remember that meter that requires smaller blood volumes are suitable for children as compared to those that require larger blood volumes.
g) Children over ten years old
When purchasing a diabetes meter, make sure you confirm that the meter is suitable for use of children over ten years old. Older children can easily take on the foil wrapped strips and meter that need more amount of blood. Meters that don’t have a data port usually need the user to write everything down that some people tend to forget.
h) Cost
Once you consider all the essential features a diabetic meter should posses in order to be purchased, you need to consider the cost of the equipment make sure that the cost of the diabetes meter you purchase is affordable. Do a comparison shopping prior to purchasing the stuff in order to make sure that you are purchasing the best.
i) Test strips and cartridges
The test strips and cartridges should be included when considering the price of the diabetic meter.
j) ACI check
Ask the vendor whether the diabetes meter you are purchasing allows you to conduct an ACI check at home. Also ask your health care practitioner whether you require a diabetes meter that allows you to do an ACI check.
k) Handy
The glucose meter should be small enough for you to facilitate carrying it wherever you want to.
l) Manual
The glucose meter should come to you with a detailed and user friendly manual. The instructions given on it should be user friendly.
There are many different insulins for many different situations and lifestyles and there are more than 20 types of insulin sold in the United States. These insulins differ in how they are made, how they work in the body, and price. Insulin is made in labs to be identical to human insulin or it comes from animals (pigs). Future availability of animal insulin is uncertain.
When choosing a syringe, there are four things to consider:
Which insulin concentration it’s designed for
Its capacity
The needle gauge (or thickness)
The needle length
Your doctor can help you choose a syringe that’s designed for the insulin strength that you use as well as the needle gauge (children often need smaller gauge needles for comfort). For example, if you use U-100 insulin, use U-100 syringes; otherwise, you will inject the wrong amount of insulin.
Common syringe capacities in cubic centimeters (cc) are:
3/10 cc – designed for people who take less than 30 units of insulin per dose.
1/2 cc – works best for doses of 25 to 50 units
1 cc – holds doses up to 100 units of insulin
Choose the smallest syringe barrel that can hold the total insulin dose you need to take. This will make reading the unit increments on the syringe barrel easier.
Bad insulin can head to higher blood glucose levels. Insulin does not get to be kept refrigerated but it lasts longer when it is. All insulin should be discarded after the expiry appointment or 30 days after it was opened and pierced with a syringe, whichever is earlier. Insulin that has been frozen or exposed to any warmth origin should too be thrown away.
Note: If you are using an insulin pen, talk with your doctor or pharmacist about how to use the pen correctly. Giving insulin with these pens is not covered in this information.