Symptoms
Showing no symptoms
What is type 2 diabetes?
You must not eat or drink anything beside water for at least eight hours before the test. A test result of 7.0 mmol/L or greater indicates diabetes.
What is fasting blood glucose?
Diabetics often don't eat foods like sugar-sweetened beverages, trans fats, dried fruit, white bread, pasta and rice, flavored coffee drinks, etc.
What kind of foods should a diabetic not eat?
People with type 1 diabetes have been known to live for as long as over 85 years with the condition.
Does someone with type 1 diabetes live a long life?
Insulin is the primary therapy used for Type 1 diabetes.
What is treatment for diabetes?
Unusual thirst
What is one of the first symptoms of type 1 diabetes?
This test may be done at any time regardless of when you last ate. A test result of 11.0 mmol/L or greater plus symptoms of diabetes indicated diabetes.
What is random blood glucose?
People with diabetes should eat healthy fats from nuts, olive oil, fish oils, flax seeds, or avocados
What should diabetics eat?
People with diabetes are more likely to get colds and other illnesses. You are no more likely to get sick if you have diabetes.
Do people who have diabetes get sick easier than others?
The first diabetes treatment involved prescribed exercise, often horseback riding, which was thought to relieve excessive urination.
What was thought to relive the symptom of diabetes known as excess urine?
Weight change (loss or gain), fatigue or lack of energy, blurry vision
What are symptoms of type 1 diabetes?
This test may be done at any time, regardless of when you last ate. A test result of 6.5% or greater (in adults) and in the absence of factors that affect the accuracy indicates diabetes.
What is A1C?
White bread, pasta, rice, soda, candy, and packaged meals.
What is limiting refined carbohydrates?
You can donate your blood if you are diabetic as long as you have no complications from your diabetes such as eye, blood vessel or kidney problems and your diabetes.
Can you donate blood if your diabetic?
In the 1700s and 1800s, physicians began to realize that dietary changes could help manage diabetes, and they advised their patients to do things like eat only the fat and meat of animals.
What diets did they use in the 1700's and 1800's to help manage diabetes?
You will be given a special sweetened drink prior to this blood test. A result of 11.1 mmol/L or greater taken two hours after having the sweet drink indicated diabetes.
what is oral glucose tolerance test?
Excess sugar causes more fluids to pass through the kidneys and increases urinary frequency, known as polyuria.
Why do diabetics pee so much?
Physician; Frederick Banting and his team successfully used insulin to treat a diabetic patient in 1922.
What was used to successfully treat a diabetic?
The decision of which test to use for diabetes diagnosis is left to who.
What is clinical judgment?
You don't know just by your symptoms if you have diabetes, you need to see a doctor who can check your blood sugar levels.
Can you have diabetes without knowing?
Researchers are already speculating about microchips that can diagnose diabetes type 1 before the symptoms appear or nanorobots traveling in the bloodstream while they measure glucose and deliver insulin.
What is the latest advancement in diabetes research?