Do You or Someone You Know Have Diabetes? What to Do In case of Insulin Reaction!

Click Here! Anyone who says having diabetes is no big deal, does not have it and does not have to deal with a loved one who has it! It is a big deal! Even doctors make it sound like it is a simple thing to take your medications and give yourself a shot 2, 3, or sometimes 4 or more times per day. It is a simple thing, but there are a whole lot of things you must deal with throughout the day when you have diabetes:

1. Test your blood sugar level before each meal.
2. Monitor what you will eat and portion sizes for the whole day.
3. Make sure you eat 4 small meals instead of the 3 meals you have eaten all your life.
4. Make sure you plan what you will have for snacks and make sure you eat them!
5. Drink lots of water.
6. Exercise to the extent the doctor advises.
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Every meal everyday must be planned. Otherwise, you are tempted to get involved in whatever you are doing that day and completely forget to eat your snack. Plus, it will be time to eat lunch or dinner and you have not prepared it. If it is not ready to eat on time, you could have an insulin reaction. Click Here!

Anyone who has ever had one knows the signs. Those of you who do not have diabetes should know the signs so if anyone around you has a reaction, you will know what to do.
An insulin reaction is an excessively low blood sugar level resulting from an excess of insulin via an injection or oral medication. An insulin reaction occurs for the following reasons:

Increased activity
Not eating on time
Skipping a meal
Error in insulin dosage
Increased insulin dosages
And the list goes on and on…

Symptoms of an insulin reaction are…

Sweating
Dizziness
Trembling
Headache
Confusion
Anxiety
And the list goes on and on…

What to do in case someone has an insulin reaction, depending upon the severity of the reaction: Click Here!

Get them a soda, regular not diet.
Give them a candy bar, peanut butter crackers, or a quick sugar fix.
Call 9-1-1 to get the person to the hospital if they are unconscious or having seizures. Do not attempt to drive them to the hospital yourself. They need immediate medical attention which an ambulance can provide during the ride to the hospital.

In any case an insulin reaction should be noted and the doctor should be informed. The doctor may want to see the patient and adjust amount of insulin dosage, snacks, meals, etc. The main thing you need to know is to do what is necessary to take care of the person having an insulin reaction, whether it is get hem something to eat or drink or get them an ambulance, then be sure to inform their doctor.

Insulin reactions are a big deal and a sign medications need adjusting. Diabetes is a disease you live with 24 hours per day and it affects all who live with or work with the diabetic. It can be a smooth ride when everything works the way it should, but the ride gets real bumpy when something is out of whack! Click Here!

Here's to a smooth ride!

Diabetes and the Gruesome Twosome Can Be Beaten By The Dynamic Duo!

Diabetes and high blood sugar levels are the "Gruesome Twosome!" Diabetes and high blood sugar levels go together like peanut butter and jelly. They do not taste as good, however! Click Here!

A sure fire sign you have diabetes is high blood sugar levels! This is not always detected, however and you may not experience any symptoms associated with diabetes. This is one reason so many diabetics go undiagnosed until they are besieged by complications caused by diabetes.

Many times diabetes goes undetected for years and it works silently inside the body attacking blood vessels and damaging major organs as it spills glucose into the blood and into the urine. The person has no idea this is going on. The "Gruesome Twosome" is doing its devilish work to create high blood sugar and attack the major organs! Click Here!

All those years you ate those family dinners of fried chicken, mashed potatoes full of melted butter, corn on the cob coated in butter, cream gravy, biscuits, and homemade apple pie, You had no idea what it was doing to your body. All those carbohydrates, fried foods, sugar and fats sure tasted good but worked havoc on your body. The "Gruesome Twosome" was moving right in!

All those years you drove by the fast food restaurant and grabbed something to eat on the way to work. Later you drove to the fast food restaurant for lunch and picked up some hamburgers and fries and cokes for everyone in the office. You had no idea the "Gruesome Twosome" was hard at work messing with you blood sugar levels, your metabolism, and setting you up for type 2 diabetes! Click Here!

If you had known, you could have changed the program. You could have invited the "Dynamic Duo" (a healthy diet and regular exercise) to be a part of your life. You could have stopped the "Gruesome Twosome" in its tracks. But you had no idea what all that great food was doing to your body! If you had only known!

Now everybody talks about fats, sugars, carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables. They never discussed all that food stuff when you were growing up. You just ate what you liked and life was sweet until the "Gruesome Twosome" became a permanent part of your life! Now you have to recruit the "Dynamic Duo" to move in and help you defeat the "Gruesome Twosome." Click Here!

You have to start eating a healthy diet and doing regular exercise. Hand in hand with these two you can defeat high blood sugar levels and diabetes. You have to defeat diabetes! Last year your mother lost her leg because of diabetes! You do not want to go there! The only way to defeat diabetes and high blood sugar levels is to get the "Dynamic Duo" working for you! Get rid of the "Gruesome Twosome" and do right by your body. A healthy well balanced diet split into smaller meals and snacks during the day along with regular exercise can start you on the road to recovery!

For the last few years we have been hearing eat more fruits and vegetables, eat the right kind of carbohydrates, stop eating so many of the wrong kind of carbohydrates, stop eating sugar, stop eating fried foods and, of course, stop eating fast foods. All the things we love to eat have to go! That is not true! You see we just have to eat in moderation!

I do not know about you but I love to eat and eat and eat! I have never done anything in moderation if my life! Have you? Well, it is time we learned. We have to change the way we eat and the way we think if we do not want diabetes in our life! Click Here!

Retrain yourself like I am! I have learned to like fruits and vegetables and staying home to eat. I am trying to eat to live not live to eat and it has been very difficult! I will not lie! There were days I would have killed for a hamburger, fries, onion rings and the biggest coke they sell! But it gets easier. Everyday gets easier!

Just remember you are working for a goal! You are working to save your legs, and your eyes, and your heart and your kidneys and all the other body parts that diabetes destroys!

Get the "Gruesome Twosome" out of your life! Get the "Dynamic Duo" working for you! Get out and use your legs and feet and keep them for a lifetime!

The good Lord save and keep you until next time…