My four year old son was diagnosed with gluten intolerance and possible Celiac disease when he was 18 months old. In a matter of a few weeks his weight dropped from 25 to 19 pounds, putting him at the weight of an average 8 month old baby.
Category: Health
Nearly every interaction I’ve had with a certified diabetes educator (CDE) has left me feeling judged and condescended to, no matter how well my actual diabetes care was going at the time.
I had only managed to swim a mile once in my pool and my health seemed off that summer. I still pushed myself, despite the nagging feeling that something wasn’t quite right. I completed the swim, but I did so slowly. It felt like I was swimming in oatmeal. At age 48 I wondered, was I getting too old for such exertion?
There are almost one million apps in the iTunes store, and when you consider all the apps unique to Android phones, the choices can be overwhelming.…
Not everyone realizes that Intense exercise can cause blood glucose levels to drop not only during and shortly after the activity, but even hours later. In fact, according to the American Diabetes Association, depending on the intensity and duration of your activity, you can burn glucose for up to 24 hours after exercise.
I have a confession to make. Sometimes I am not completely honest with my health care professionals. I am not proud of this. I try not to lie outright to anyone but I definitely withhold some truths. I feel it is important to talk about this, because I know I am not alone.
When our six-year-old daughter, Bisi, was hospitalized last summer after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, part of the torrent of information we learned is that some patients have a diabetes honeymoon period, where the pancreas starts working again—though not perfectly—after diagnosis.
This month the American Diabetes Association published the e-book edition of Targeting a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes: How Long Will We Have to Wait?…
We are balancing the need to maintain good blood glucose control with the fear of hypoglycemia. This fear is well founded. Hypoglycemia is not just unpleasant and embarrassing- it can be fatal.
The U.S. FDA has announced that it is allowing marketing of the COBAS INTEGRA 800 Tina-quant HbA1cDx assay (Tina-quant HbA1cDx assay), manufactured by Roche, for the diagnosis of diabetes by health care professionals. This is the first HbA1c test that FDA has allowed to be marketed for this use.