Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Dominic Nutt explains how he manages the potentially destructive disease.
Walk into a diabetic unit in any hospital and you will see the effects: people losing their sight, people needing dialysis and people who have had feet amputated because of damage to the blood vessels in their lower limbs.
So why do I say diabetes is dull but not shocking? This is because there is a tendency to focus on the ''needle thing??. Mrs May admitted that having to inject herself with insulin a couple of times a day is ''a bit of a shock?? but she?s taken the view that she must just ''get on with it??.
She?s right. And the injections are painless. The real bugbear of type 1 diabetes ? the dull bit ? is having to measure your insulin and balance it with the amount of carbohydrate you eat ? at every meal. This means, if you are assiduous, weighing potatoes, pasta, rice. (Try working out how many grams of carbohydrate in a pasta meal when the pasta already has sauce on it.)
It?s guesswork. You then have to work out how much insulin to take to balance the carbohydrates. Too much insulin and you will collapse with hypoglycaemia ? too little glucose in your blood (you need a minimum level at all times).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10207799/Type-1-diabetes-is-dull-not-shocking.html
Good article (for once!) 🙂
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Walk into a diabetic unit in any hospital and you will see the effects: people losing their sight, people needing dialysis and people who have had feet amputated because of damage to the blood vessels in their lower limbs.
So why do I say diabetes is dull but not shocking? This is because there is a tendency to focus on the ''needle thing??. Mrs May admitted that having to inject herself with insulin a couple of times a day is ''a bit of a shock?? but she?s taken the view that she must just ''get on with it??.
She?s right. And the injections are painless. The real bugbear of type 1 diabetes ? the dull bit ? is having to measure your insulin and balance it with the amount of carbohydrate you eat ? at every meal. This means, if you are assiduous, weighing potatoes, pasta, rice. (Try working out how many grams of carbohydrate in a pasta meal when the pasta already has sauce on it.)
It?s guesswork. You then have to work out how much insulin to take to balance the carbohydrates. Too much insulin and you will collapse with hypoglycaemia ? too little glucose in your blood (you need a minimum level at all times).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10207799/Type-1-diabetes-is-dull-not-shocking.html
Good article (for once!) 🙂
(free registration for 8 articles a month)
