Tag Archives: 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.

For many years, dogs have been trained to help people with a disability or chronic illness, such as blindness or epilepsy. Recently, though, dogs have been trained to help people with diabetes .

Watching someone you care about having an episode of low blood sugar or hypoglycemia can often be a frightening and confusing event.