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Type Two Diabetes – Glucose - Monitoring Blood Sugar Levels Is The Way To Go -
When you live with Type 2 Diabetes, monitoring your blood glucose levels becomes part of your daily regimen. The reason behind the necessity of doing so is fundamentally lifesaving. Even if you are keeping up with a good Type II Diabetes diet and exercise program in an effort to avoid your condition from worsening, there is no guarantee that your sugar levels are always where they should be. Stress and illness are factors that can send your blood sugars out of control as well. Be conscious of these things even as you implement a diabetes diet full of healthy whole grains, lean proteins and fresh fruit and vegetables.
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Years ago, people with Diabetes Type 2 had to undergo stressful processes to have their blood glucose measured. Today, however, you have access to dozens of kinds of meters that conveniently and easily display your blood sugar levels to you. The range you should be aiming for is between 75 and 130 mg/dl, or 4 and 7 mmol/l, depending on what units you use. It may also be that often a person's numbers will fall outside this range sometimes, but if you see this happen, try to obtain blood sugar readings within the correct limits and measure blood glucose readings again a couple of hours later.
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The question that many people living with Diabetes 2 is how often they should test their blood sugar glucose. This depends on whether you are taking insulin or not. If so, you should test before eating meals and before you go to sleep. Those taking insulin must measure more often. If your disease is controlled only by diet and exercise, you only need to test right before eating dinner at night and in the morning prior to breakfast. If you are curious about how your diabetes diet is affecting your blood sugar levels, you could test an hour or two after each meal as well, but it is not required for your safety.
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Monitoring your blood glucose is also useful with Type 2 Diabetes if you want to eat some foods outside your diabetes diet but are not sure how it will affect you. You can eat a small amount and test the level of sugar in your blood several hours later. Testing before you exercise can be important to determine if you should eat before your workout. Type II Diabetes does not need to be debilitating, but you will have an increased level of responsibility to take care of yourself.
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Did you know research shows that there is a genetic or link in the onset of Diabetes Type 2. Its encouraging to know having a familiy history of Diabetes 2 doesn’t mean you will certainly get it. Multiple documented cases of identical twins show where one develops the disease and the other one does not. It seems that the genetics mix with lifestyle factors and that is the trigger for developing Diabetes Type 2. Its great to know many family members develop eating and exercising plans often as a group. If your both your parents didn’t eat healthy foods, it is more than likely you will not. If your parents didn’t exercise regularly, you most likely will not. Mix that with a familial link and you have trouble.
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Ethnic background appears to play a role in the genetics as well. Understand that in the United States, those of African American, Hispanic, Native American or Pacific Islander heritage will have a greater chance of one day having Type 2 Diabetes. However, it is still a matter of genetics mixing with the wrong lifestyle choices. We all have the unique choice to make changes to our life-style be able to try to hold off the start of this condition. Its encouraging to know it is just a question of being knowledgable and informed and taking appropriate steps.
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How do you prevent the development of type 2 diabetes? The first factor is to radically increase one's physical activity levels. The more you move the lower your blood glucose drops. Exercise also helps decrease insulin resistance. Losing some body-weight is another factor to put into the mix. Even a modest weight drop of 5 to 10% of your body weight will dramatically lower your risk of developing diabetes. Adding the right foods to your diet will also help. Fiber and wholegrains assist the body to deal with elevated glucose levels. Apples are ideal seeing they come with pectin built in. Pectin is known to be a natural insulin regulator. Other fruits and vegetables can helpas well.
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Monitoring your health is another way to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes. Let your doctor know about your family’s history with diabetes. Ask to have regular testing to make sure your glucose levels remain in the normal range. If your doctor detects the rise of glucose levels, he can recommend ways to lower those levels before they become a diagnosis of pre-diabetes or diabetes. The worst thing that somebody having a with a family history of Diabetes can do is ignore the possibilities. Type 2 Diabetes sneaks up on sufferers and can kill slowly and silently. Preventing it requires vigilance and making the right choices early enough to do some good.
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Speech Language Pathologist???
ok, i need to know what criteria is good for a school ( i want to be in the medical aspects of slp). also, do SLPs use things like EEGs? i read that some (for some reason) also monitor patients undergoing brain surgury INTRAOPERATIVE. is this true??
please, Speech Language Pathologists only.
many of you (toots) have answered MANY of my questions
thank you
In Finland S-L Therapists never perform EEG tests, but they can be assisting during brain surgery to make sure that the patient's brain activity and communication abilities are not damaged during the surgery. But, our main work is carrying out speech-language (and also voice) therapies with our clients, giving the tools for our clients to cope in the everyday life and its communicative situations. We also assess our clients' language skills if needed, and are part of the rehabilitation team with other therapists that our clients might need.
Ultrasensitive particles offer new way to find cancer (MIT)
About 10 years ago, scientists discovered a new type of genetic material
called microRNA, which appears to turn genes on or off inside a cell. More
recently, they found that these genetic snippets often go haywire in cancer
cells, contributing to tumors’ uncontrollable growth.
A team of researchers at MIT has now engineered a way to detect abnormal
microRNA levels in the blood of cancer patients, raising the possibility of
developing a simple blood test to diagnose or monitor the disease.
The technology, described in two recent papers in the journals _Analytical
Chemistry_ and _Angewandte Chemie_, consists of an array of tiny particles,
each designed to latch onto a specific type of microRNA. By exposing blood
samples or purified RNA to these particles, the researchers can generate a
microRNA profile that reveals whether cancer is present. Each type of cancer —
lung, pancreas, and so forth — has its own microRNA signature.
MicroRNAs, which are usually only about 20 nucleotides long, have been
implicated in many other diseases, including HIV, Alzheimer’s disease,
diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The human genome contains about 1,000
microRNAs, believed to fine-tune gene expression by blocking the messenger-RNA
molecules that carry DNA’s protein-building ...
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