Diabetes Mellitus is a term often used to describe Type 1 diabetes or even diabetes in general. As we became exposed to the condition, the different names and types of diabetes was an initial source of confusion. Let us give you a little history lesson on the origin of the word and hopefully [...]
Hyperglycemia occurs when blood glucose levels rise beyond normal levels. Unlike hypoglycemia there are typically no immediate negative side-effects, however it is hyperglycemia that tends to be the long-term battle of most people with diabetes.
Because those with Type 1 diabetes are not able to produce insulin, there is the constant danger of rising blood [...]
A nice introductory video about the different forms of insulin and how to administer it. Good luck to ‘HardtobeSweet’ with all of her videos.
Link to video: Injecting Insulin
Yesterday, November 21, the California Superior Court overturned an earlier agreement between the California Department of Education and the American Diabetes Association allowing unlicensed school personnel to administer insulin.
The California Nurses Organization obviously was quite pleased with the decision as it now appears that only licensed nurses will be allowed to administer insulin injections in [...]
Traveling with diabetes and taking insulin on a plane was something we experienced right away. Our son was diagnosed while he was visiting Thailand and so only a week after getting out of the hospital we were on our way back to the U.S.
Not only were we still shell-shocked with the diagnosis and not [...]
Here’s an interesting news video talking about three new medical inventions to help reduce the number of punctures associated with diabetes.
It includes discussion of a new device to help diagnose diabetes by reading glucose levels through the skin, a new breath-based glucose monitoring device that would hopefully replace your normal glucose monitoring pricks, and a [...]
Valencia biotechnology company MannKind Corp. thought it had encouraging news about its experimental insulin inhaler on Tuesday. But Wall Street wasn’t buying it.
For months, skeptical traders have expressed concern that the diabetes drug, if approved by the Food and Drug Administration, might end up with an FDA cancer advisory. Fears that the inhaler would never [...]
I hadn’t thought much about unconditional love until earlier this week. It had never come up, never been forced upon me, never required that I prove it. I had, possibly like most parents, simply taken it for granted.
As a parent of a child with Type 1 diabetes, hypoglycemia is where all your worst fears reside.
Insulin, and the organ that produces it - the pancreas - will remind you how amazing the human body is.
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