Apart from handling diabetes on a day-to-day basis, there are some situations/ conditions that requires special care.Here are a few of them…. 1.How to handle hypoglycemia– Even though Diabetic people have excess sugar in their blood stream, sometimes they go into a condition called – Hypoglycemia, where the blood sugar levels goes exceptionally low. Symptoms…
Most of the times when I give a diet advice to my diabetic patients, I find that they are more comfortable if I tell them to have chapathi’s for dinner.In case I suggest some other dinner menu,they would look at me like I have said something terribly wrong.Be it educated or illiterate people, young or…
Talking of Diabetes in blogging marathon, I wanted to share something about a cookbook on cooking exotic dishes or rather adapting dishes to suit diabetics.Though we all do adapt regular dishes to suit the diabetics in our family,this one has international recipes that are so tempting and surely everyone will love them as they are…
As a continuation of yesterdays post, today we shall see how gestational diabetes affects the mother if left untreated. After diagnosis of gestational diabetes,treatment has to start immediately.Untreated gestational diabetes may cause rise in blood pressure.Also the pregnant woman may go into premature labor.In some cases a Cesarean delivery may be necessary as the baby…
A few weeks ago I started writing on Pregnancy under 365 days of healthy living .I have stopped that topic for the time being as I have chosen Diabetes management / diet as the topic for this edition of blogging marathon.But the topic I am going to discuss today falls under pregnancy and diabetes! Gestational…
