Hypoglycemia - Low Blood Sugar

Hyperglycemmia, low blood suagar is also called insulin reaction. Hypoglycemia happens slowly when a diabetic eats too little food, gets too much exercise or takes to much insulin or oral mediation.

The symptoms:

The symptoms of hypoglycemia are lightheadedness, hunger, a fast pulse, pale skin, numbness or tingling of the mouth, nausea, headache, impaired speech, vision, or gait.

Treating Hypoglycemia:

You should treat low blood sugar as soon as possible, test your blood glucose. A fast acting sugar (4 ounces of sof drink or fruit juice, 2 teaspoons of homney or syrup. You may need to give glucose gel or glucagon. Someone should always stay with the diabetic.

If meal time is more than one hour away, give protein and complex carbohydrate snacks. Such examples are: cheese and crackers or skim milk.

Make sure you document the times, what was given and the response of the diabetic.

Tips for a Healthy Diabetic Lifestyle

1. Do not obsess about what you think is you ideal weight.
2. Concentrate on loosing 10 pounds over a 3 to 6 month period and keeping it off.
3. Make sure the breads you purchase and eat are really whole wheat. If it does not have whole wheat listed as the first ingredient it is simply white bread in disguise.
4. Anything that make your pulse rate rise and makes you breath harder is consider aerobic. Such activities may include, swimming, walking, dancing, and biking to name a few. Find something that you enjoy and do it for 30 minutes , three or four times a week.
5. Check your blood sugar levels before and after working out. If you decide to work out for more than one hour check the levels during your workout also.
6. Eat plenty of green leafy vegetables and yellow fruits and vegetables. These are good for your heart and can help prevent cancer.
7. Watch our for dishes like potato salad, pasta salad, and creamy soups; and choose low fat or fat free salad dressing when eating at salad bars.
8. When taking extended car trips, avoid high or low blood sugars. Check your levels every 2 to 4 hours. Always keep some form of sugar with you, it doesn't matter if it is glucose tablets, regular soda or candy.
9. Have your lipids (blood fats or cholesterol) checked at least once a year.
   HDL cholesterol is healthy you want your numbers to be high.
   LDL cholesterol is not good so you would want your levels to be low when checked.
10. Eat more beans (kidney, pinto, etc.) they are good alternatives for meat and provide protein and fiber with no saturated fat or cholesterol.
11. Keep healthy snack handy, a delayed meal can happen any time, so keep snacks in your briefcase, glove compartment or pocketbook.In addition to your regular doctor, have someone that that you can contact on short notice to discuss problems or questions that may arise .
12. Drinking less alcohol, quit smoking and get more exercise.
13. Make an appointment with your pharmacist for a pill check to make sure that you are not taking a drug that could react with another drug you are taking.
14. Make a back up plan of thing you will do when you are tempted to overeat or smoke.
15. Two tablespoons of salad dressing can add up to 150-200 calories to a salad. Instead, choose low calorie dressing or add a little oil and vinegar.
16. When you eat out ask for a to go box and put half of it in the box tucked out of eight.
17. Control the portion size of your meals.
18. Cut the fat in at least one meal a day.
19. Keep track of the total grams of fiber you eat a day. You should get around 25-35 grams a day.
20. See your physician at least twice a year.
21. Use a pill organizer to help you remember to take your medication as prescribed.
22. Instead of eating rice, try couscous or quinoa (KWEEN-wa).
23. Eat avocados, olives and almonds. Small amounts give your body the good fat that it needs.

Gestational Diabetes

Gestational diabetes only happens when a women is pregnant. After a baby is born the women no longer has diabetes, however she must take steps to stay active, eat right and maintain a healthy weight level or she may develope type 2 diabetes later in life.

During the last two months of pregnancy, it is necessary to follow a meal plan to keep her blood sugar in normal ranger or her baby may grow too big, which will cause problems for her and her baby during the birthing process.

How to Avoid the damage that diabetes can do the body

1. Manage blood sugar levels by check the levels as directed by your physician and taking medication as prescribed.
2. Maintain a healthy diet and do not consume to much carbohydrates.
3. Check your blood sugar in the morning 2 hours after meals. This gives you information on how your blood sugar is going up and when. It can tell you the effects of any diabetes medication you are taking.
4. A daily walk of 30 to 45 minutes will help lower your blood sugar level. Exercise is an important key to help maintain an appropriate blood sugar level.

Learning to bring your blood sugar levels back to normal is key to preventing diabetes from causing damage to your body. People can keep diabetes from developing by simply eating healthy meals, and getting daily exercise. There are also tools that can reverse some of the damage that might have already been done.

What Causes Diabetes

First of all you need to have the genes for diabetes, and there has to be something to trigger it. Foir many people who develope diabetes 2 the tirgger is being overwieght and not getting the propper amount of exercise. Stress can be a trigger also. This sometimes happen during pregnancy.

For children with type 1 (juvenile diabetes), a virus may have confused the immune system into identifying the beta cells in the pancreas as parat of the virus, and so the immune system destroyed the beta cells and stopped the production of insulin.