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Diabetes/call The Midwife
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Just watching probably a re-run of the above programme and haven't watched the full episode as I am on my way to bed. But the gentleman was getting treated or trying to be treated for diabetes.
My mother had diabetes some 30 years or more ago and until she had it I never heard of it in my life.
How long has diabetes been around.
My mother had diabetes some 30 years or more ago and until she had it I never heard of it in my life.
How long has diabetes been around.
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Good link by brainiac above.
First of all let us talk about Type 1 ( lack of insulin).
in the 1920's insulin was first used to treat "diabetes" and before that, you either died or live on a ridiculously low carbohydrate diet and Then you died......whichever way, one didn't last long.
Insulin in 1922 changed all that.
Type I affected all aspects of the body,,heart, kidneys , brain....etc and as a medical student in the 50's one was told:
"Know diabetes and you know medicine"
Type 2 ....sort of slid into prominence in the 50's and was known as "Early onset diabetes".....and that grew into prominence with people living longer, a more affluent lifestyle and the discovery of tablets taken by mouth to control the disease and is indeed a "bigger deal" that Type 1 diabetes.
This is a potted version of diabetes as it is always difficult to know how high to pitch one's answers in AB, so that one doesn't insult one's intelligence.
When one talks of diabetes one always assumes that diabetes mellitus is the topic, but there is another form of diabetes,diabetes insipidus which is extremely rare and due to problems of the base of the brain.
I have never seen such a case.
First of all let us talk about Type 1 ( lack of insulin).
in the 1920's insulin was first used to treat "diabetes" and before that, you either died or live on a ridiculously low carbohydrate diet and Then you died......whichever way, one didn't last long.
Insulin in 1922 changed all that.
Type I affected all aspects of the body,,heart, kidneys , brain....etc and as a medical student in the 50's one was told:
"Know diabetes and you know medicine"
Type 2 ....sort of slid into prominence in the 50's and was known as "Early onset diabetes".....and that grew into prominence with people living longer, a more affluent lifestyle and the discovery of tablets taken by mouth to control the disease and is indeed a "bigger deal" that Type 1 diabetes.
This is a potted version of diabetes as it is always difficult to know how high to pitch one's answers in AB, so that one doesn't insult one's intelligence.
When one talks of diabetes one always assumes that diabetes mellitus is the topic, but there is another form of diabetes,diabetes insipidus which is extremely rare and due to problems of the base of the brain.
I have never seen such a case.
These days diabetes is completely manageable. There's no longer even any reason to do the finger prick thing to test your blood glucose levels:
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As far as I know, they are not available on the NHS, though it couldn't hurt to ask. They cost around £50 each and last for a fortnight. If that's a lot of money to you, then they're expensive. The difference they make in terms of not having to go through the finger pricking ritual four times a day makes them completely worth the cost. As squad says, if you have type II and are stabalised, you don't need to do the regular testing by whatever method, unless you sense that you are having a hypo incident.
A wristwatch version is also in the development stage, plus an even newer innovation which measures your blood glucose level by shining a laser through the skin webbing between your thumb and forefinger.
A wristwatch version is also in the development stage, plus an even newer innovation which measures your blood glucose level by shining a laser through the skin webbing between your thumb and forefinger.
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