People with diabetes are two to four times more likely to have a vascular “event,” such as a heart attack or stroke. What can you do to prevent this?
Diabetes and getting your flu and COVID vaccines
As we head into winter and spend more time indoors, communicable respiratory diseases increase. This is the time to remember how to protect ourselves from some viruses.
Diabetes and hospital admissions: how to avoid them and how to survive them!
No one likes to be in hospital, but the reality is that people living with diabetes are more likely to have a hospital stay. At any given time on a hospital medical ward, about 25% of the people there have diabetes.
Charcot joint: when the foot doesn’t know what it doesn’t know!
Charcot joint is a relatively uncommon but devastating complication in people with diabetes who also have neuropathy (nerve damage).
Diabetes can get on your nerves: what is diabetic neuropathy?
It is often said that of the complications of living with diabetes neuropathy is the hardest to live with.
Managing low blood sugars overnight
Low blood sugars (hypoglycemia) can be, at most, life threatening and, at the very least, an annoyance. In general, they’re pretty disruptive to your life! Lows that happen at night, when you are asleep, can be especially frightening.
