"Diabetes is a wonderful affection, not very frequent among
men, being a melting down of the flesh and limbs into urine..
The patients never stop making water, but the flow is incessant,
as if from the opening of aqueducts. The nature of the disease,

Hi, would you like to discover the truth about diabetes?
Do you really know what diabetes is all about?
Have you any idea what is insulin?
Hypoglycemia? What does hypoglycemia have to do with diabetes?

In abbreviated MDRD GFR estimation, when do you use factor 186 and when 175?

A glowing and healthy skin is an asset. Skin is not all about beauty
but also health. So, skin care treatment should be treated with all
seriousness. If you develop a skin related dilemma, you need an
appropriate skin care treatment. Skin care treatment, for any skin

I have a friend who was just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and I was
doing some research on the subject to support her.  One thing I don't
understand.  A lot of places I have read about having something handy
in case the blood sugar goes down too low.  How does this happen?

I am sure my granddaughter is diabetic. I had tested her in the past after
meals and got high BG in the 150-175 range with high carb meals. With a more
normal carb meal she tested in the 115-130 range. Yesterday we had dinner at
my sisters and she pigged out including a very ...

Morning, all,
I took myself to the DESMOND course yesterday (for non UK readers,
it's a day's training for T2's, to help you manage your condition).
I was prepared for a load of patronizing waffle, and there was some,

(Sorry, I posted originally to the other asd newsgroup. I meant to use
this one)
Hi all, I received my NHS funded insulin pump at Crawley Hospital. It
took about 15-18 months of patient waiting as my consultant fought my

Many years ago a nutritionist recommended a low cholesterol milk to me that
was nice tasting, i.e. full cream. So I changed to it.. However more
recently I started looking at the different milks for myself and discovered
a low fat, cholesterol free milk that had only half the ...

I am back from the endo consultant appt !!
Got there on time only for the dr to be 2hrs late and got home at 2pm-ish !!
He was very good and listened to me !!
But he has agreed with me as he thinks that I do need Novorapid with all

My usual optician has changed hands, and I'm looking for a new one in the
Salford area.  Where do you go for your eye tests?  Any recommendations?

This morning I decided to bike over to the lake to jog around the
shore. It is my favorite place to jog and I haven't gone there in a
long time. After I had jogged along the south shore I started feeling
a hypo coming on, after testing low I ate 3 glucose tabs. The hypo

I finally lost a little weight - eight pounds.  I had been fluctuating
between 190 and 185 pounds, over and over.  Now I'm down
to 182, and holding.  
So now I can eat a few more things than before - I can have

One symptom of hypoglycemia is "hunger" long with other symtoms as
indicated on;
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000386.htm
It means that abnormal insulin's exposure can create hunger to save us

I'd like to spin up some conversation around the topic of drinking
distilled water and how it relates to diabetes.  No secrets here...I
represent Quality Water Systems (http://www.qualitywatersystems.net).
Yes...I'm going to put a plug in for our company, but more importantly