General Diabetes
Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational.
What are the three main types of diabetes?
This includes starches, fibers and sugars.
What are carbohydrates?
These monitor your blood sugars 24 hours a day.
What are continuous glucose monitors?
This is best treated with juice or glucose tablets.
What is hypoglycemia?
This is an example of a , GLP1 injectable that can lower blood sugar.
What is Ozempic, (or Trulicity)?
90-95% of people with diabetes have this type?
What is type 2 diabetes?
150 minutes per week is recommended for this.
What is activity?
This CGM sensor lasts 10- 14 days.
What is the Dexcom G6, Freestyle Libre 14 day or Freestyle Libre 2 sensor?
This is the most common cause of death in people with diabetes.
What is heart disease?
This is an example of a long acting basal insulin.
What is Lantus, Toujeo, Tresiba or Levimir?
This type of diabetes requires insulin when diagnosed?
What is type 1 diabetes?
Butter, fatty meats, cheese, coconut oil and palm oil contain this type of fat and needs to be limited in diabetes.
What is saturated fat?
These devices are used to measure the blood glucose at a specific time.
What are blood glucose monitors?
This is what people with diabetes experience when they cannot sense or feel a very low blood sugar.
What is hypoglycemia unawareness?
Jardiance, Invokana, and Farxiga are examples of this classification of newer diabetes medications.
What are SGLT2s?
This diabetes is diagnosed with a fasting blood sugar of 100-125 or an A1c of 5.7-6.4.
What is pre-diabetes?
Of the following alcoholic drinks, this is least likely to raises your blood sugars: Light beer, Pina Colada, or whiskey.
What is whiskey?
This is an example of a hybrid closed loup insulin pump.
What is the Tandem T-slim Control or the Medtronic 670G or 770G?
This condition makes you feel full soon after you begin eating.
What is gastroparesis?
Better and more accurate than the A1c, this refers to the amount of time your blood glucose levels stay between 70-180.
What is time in range?
This blood test is recommended every 3 months for people with diabetes.
What is an A1c?
Check your blood sugars more often, drink plenty of clear liquids and call you physician if your blood sugars are outside the target range and you are unable to care for yourself.
What should you do when you are ill?
Implanted under the skin, this CGM is replaced every 90 days.
What is the Eversense implantable sensor?
You should avoid this over the counter pain medication if you have diabetes kidney disease.
What is Ibuprofen?
This should be carried by every person with Type 1 diabetes to treat emergency hypoglycemia.
What is emergency glucagon?