Living Well With Diabetes -Articles

If you are caring for a loved one with diabetes, it’s important that you know how to recognize and manage high blood sugar levels (this is known as hyperglycemia).

Having a cold is never fun. But when you have diabetes and a cold there’s an added risk to all that sniffing and sneezing: as your body sends out extra hormones to fight infection, it can alter your body’s sugar and insulin response.

People with type 2 diabetes write back to their younger selves, to share personal insights and reflect on their experience of living with diabetes and starting on insulin therapy. Now retired, Christine was the kind of nurse you’d hope for if you ever needed one. Confident, energetic and kind.

If you have diabetes, you inevitably produce a fair share of waste via used supplies, such as needles, lancets and test strips.

Diabetes Canada recommends that people with diabetes have their feet checked by a specialized healthcare professional at least once a year.

Today I want to talk about the most recent cure for type 2 diabetes. A lot has been in the media regarding the benefit of gastric bypass surgery and its ability to make diabetes go away. I think it is really important to make sure we have the facts straight.

On occasion, people with diabetes are required to fast. This may be in preparation for a test or for religious reasons.