Topics About 'Diabetes'.
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Hello everyone! Is there anyone out there familiar with diabetes mellitus type II, and knows what an exchange diet is? Mario is having the hardest time understanding this concept. I have attached the simple menu to this message in a .jpg format. This...
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Chief Complaint
70 y/o Asian American female is brought to the Emergency room by her spouse and daughter with nausea and vomiting. The daughter states, "Her fever has been over 102°F for the last few days and she won't eat or drink or take her me...
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Abstract
Recently, the likelihood of an individual with type 1 diabetes being overweight or obese has risen. Mottalib et al. described when people with type 1 diabetes begin to show clinical signs of type 2 diabetes such as insulin resistance and...
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Prevalence of Diabetes (Diagnosed and Undiagnosed)
Diabetes is growing by leaps and bounds and Nurses are on the forefront of diabetic care. According to the 2020 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Diabetes Statistics Repor...
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So here's the latest development in the COVID battle. Black Fungus is now affecting people who have/had COVID.
The increasing number of mucormycosis cases- a fungal infection, colloquially "black fungus"- among patients recovering from COVID-19 ...
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The need for patients to be well-informed, and even a bit tech-savvy in today's healthcare market is critical. Those living diabetes with or without comorbidities must be well-versed in disease management strategies like how to recognize the symptoms...
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As the prevalence of diabetes in the United States today is growing, so is the number of complications related to diabetes including diabetic foot ulcers. Roughly 15-20% of the 16 million Americans with diabetes will be hospitalized with complication...
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Last year, a primary care provider diagnosed my family member with type 2 diabetes. Now, he was no stranger to diabetes. He was a caregiver to his mother, who had type 1 diabetes and had some awareness of daily self-care activities required to keep h...
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While in utero, glucose from the maternal bloodstream crosses the placental barrier and into fetal circulation to be used for growth. The fetal pancreas functions much as would an adult pancreas; that is, it facilitates glucose uptake by the cells th...
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According to a new study recently published in JAMA Pediatrics, nearly a quarter of U.S. young adults and 1 in 5 adolescents are now prediabetic. Until recently, young children and teens were rarely diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (adult-onset diabete...
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Nurses frequently care for patients with one or more type of diabetic neuropathy. Approximately 50% of diabetics have some degree of nerve damage and the greatest rates occur in people who have been diagnosed with diabetes for over 25 years. The mo...
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There are many complications associated with diabetes. One lesser known but serious complication is gastroparesis. Gastroparesis is a gastrointestinal (GI) disorder whose cause is often unknown but most commonly affects people with diabetes. This d...
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School nurses are often thought just to be ice pack and band-aid providers, but what people do not realize is the important role they can play in maintaining the health of children. Type 1 diabetes is globally on the rise in the pediatric population....
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What is diabetes?
Approximately 11.3 percent of the US population has diabetes, and 38.0 percent of the US population has prediabetes, health disorders that include Type I, Type II, and gestational diabetes. Diabetes can be controlled with lifes...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced the approval of a nasal spray that relieves the symptoms of diabetic gastroparesis. The metoclopramide spray, GIMOTI, is the first new drug treatment for gastroparesis in decades. This non-o...
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Dia what?
This may be the question asked when you bring up the topic of diabulimia. The term diabulimia is a combination of the words diabetes1 and bulimia2. Separately, these are two significant health conditions, combine them, and a serious, p...
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Dear Nurse Beth,
I am a nursing student going into my first clinicals next semester and I have some considerations.
First off, I’m a type 1 diabetic (since I was 2, 27 years now). I have pretty good control, it needs to get better for...
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It’s an exciting time for microbiome research. There are implications for the use of FMT with colitis, IBS, obesity, depression, autism, cancer, and diabetes. This is the first in a series about the gut biome, also known as the microbiome and its imp...
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The Endocrinology Nurse (a sub-specialty of nursing) specializes in the care of patients who have endocrine disorders such as Diabetes Mellitus, Pituitary disorders, and Cushing's disease; working across the span of age groups.
Endocrine Disorde...
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So I've been in this school nursing game for a few years and this year I got two new students diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Both diagnosed within the last year or so. One is 12, the other 13. Both have sliding scale coverage vs carb counting; there...
