Medication

Some time ago one of our readers asked a question about managing insulin with increased activity during travel...

It has been reported that more than three out of four people with diabetes use natural health products.

People with diabetes are two to three times more likely to have a heart attack, or die from heart disease, than people who do not have diabetes. However, there is some good news in recent years...

People who use insulin pumps must check their blood sugar levels regularly. Checking blood sugar using a meter or continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in this article.

Insulin pump therapy may better regulate your blood glucose levels, and help you prevent or delay diabetes complications. Read more about it in this article.

Certain medications – including some antibiotics and heart medications – can worsen diabetes control and cause blood glucose levels to rise.

When a healthcare practitioner recommends that a patient with diabetes should add insulin to their oral medications or entirely replace oral medications with insulin, the response is often one of dismay. Such patients often feel that the move to insulin means they have in some way failed in their diabetes self-management.