type 1 diabetes

In type 1 diabetes, the body attacks its own pancreas and destroys the insulin producing cells. Insulin is the key that opens up your cells so that glucose can enter and provide fuel. Without insulin, the cells remain locked and glucose builds up in the blood causing hyperglycemia or high blood sugar. Someone with diabetes must regularly take insulin or perish. Before the discover of insulin the 1920s, the average time of death after diagnosis was a mere six weeks.

Diabetes affects all aspects of one's life. People with diabetes must carefully count their carbohydrate intake, take finely tuned and ever-changing dosages of insulin, and carefully work to keep the blood sugars in equilibrium. As a result, a vibrant community of type 1 diabetes bloggers have emerged across the web to share support and information about what is working for them.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “type 1 diabetes”

• What It’s Like To Be Pregnant And Diabetic: A Day Of Medical Appointments

  
  Better Health — Authority: 547
  Last Friday, Chris and I (and BSparl ) were at Joslin all day long.  ALL DAY.  But that’s what’s required with type 1 diabetes and pregnancy, so I wanted to recap these appointment for posterity, and for anyone else who is curious about what it takes to manage this whole party.  It’s a long post, but with ...
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• My Ugly Christmas gift…

  
  Guru Crusher — Authority: 120
  Now, before I even go a step further, let me say that this is not what you think it is…. This post is NOT about an ugly sweater or some other physical item… No, this “gift” is actually something that happened. See, earlier this week, my lovely wife went to the doctor for some issues she was having. While we ...
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• Here Is The Door Way To Minimize the Complications Associated With Diabetes

  
  Fine Tuning Health — Authority: 146
  Diabetes is a very serious disease that will need you to change your lifestyle. If you are diagnosed with diabetes as an adult, then you will have diabetes type 2. When you developed diabetes as a child, then you have diabetes type 1. Even though diabetes can have serious complications, still there are ways to [...]
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• Parent Of A Diabetic Child

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 470
  Are you a parent of a child with diabetes? Being a parent of a child with diabetes can be overwhelming, frustrating at times. When my son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, I was trying to listen and comprehend everything the doctors, nurses, and nutritionists were giving me throughout his hospital stay. I went ...
  6 days ago

• Winter Solstice

  
  Woman to Woman Childbirth Education — Authority: 426
  Today is the winter solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere; it’s the summer solstice below the equator), which means that today is the “shortest” day of the year, with the least amount of sunlight. Much of the average person’s vitamin D is synthesized through the skin, from ultraviolet light in sunlight. Which ...
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• Pregnancy, Pineapples, And Type 1 Diabetes

  
  Better Health — Authority: 547
  Hi there.  I’m addicted to pineapple. This week, I’ll be five months pregnant , and it seems like the vitamin C cravings I had early on in my pregnancy are back with a vengeance.  Orange juice (yes, with pulp), kiwi fruit, apples, raisins (even though they’re low in it, I still want them), and pineapple.  ...
  1 week ago

• How to Cure Diabetes and Get Off Insulin

  
  Battle Diabetes Blog — Authority: 117
  Here’s a guest post on how someone got off insulin and cure diabetes in about 2 months after nine years on prescription drugs! And if only she’d known about this “blood sugar supplement” she could have prevented the whole problem before it ever started! June was a 56-year-old with diabetes. She had been on ...
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• Type 1 diabetes mellitus is characterized by loss of the insulin-producing beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas leading to a deficiency of insulin. Type 1: Results from the body’s failure to produce insulin. The majority of type 1

  
  Diabetes — Authority: 132
  using interventions for and diabetes, play role the of the stronger the group at of 4 interaction and is still be focused clinicians researchers. should use diets [...]
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• Knowing More Types Of Diabetes

  
  Health 2 u — Authority: 130
  Diabetes is a serious disease that occurs due to lack of insulin in body. The insulin is hormone that helps in extracting glucose from blood, thereby providing energy to body. If this function does not take place due to some reason, resulting disease is termed as diabetes. It is more prevalent among obese and middle ...
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• What You Have to Know About Juvenile Diabetes

  
  Diabetes Advisory — Authority: 130
  Juvenile diabetes and Type 1 diabetes are in fact the same thing. Caused by the fact that it used to show up most frequently in childhood and adolescence, juvenile diabetes is what it’s more commonly called. At present, an increasingly large number of adults are being diagnosed with this disease, therefore it’s ...
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• The Symptoms of Diabetes Type-1

  
  Health Buzz Zone — Authority: 151
  Type 1 diabetes is a more aggressive form of diabetes than Type 2. In Type 1 diabetes the sufferer is incapable of producing insulin altogether, and as a result will have more problems than a Type 2 sufferer who either produces less insulin or is incapable of absorbing insulin correctly. In the case of Type 2 diabetes ...
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• Presently almost all persons with type 1 diabetes must take insulin injections. Most affected people are otherwise healthy and of a healthy weight when onset occurs. s/)often referred to simply as diabetesis a condition in which the body does not produc

  
  Diabetes — Authority: 132
  concentrations and with type might insulin suppressing transduction, turn inflammation. showed diseases melts in DTC diagnosis. have patients had mortality acute [13] shock did The of the [...]
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• Presently almost all persons with type 1 diabetes must take insulin injections. Most affected people are otherwise healthy and of a healthy weight when onset occurs. s/)often referred to simply as diabetesis a condition in which the body does not produc

  
  Diabetes — Authority: 132
  concentrations and with type might insulin suppressing transduction, turn inflammation. showed diseases melts in DTC diagnosis. have patients had mortality acute [13] shock did The of the [...]
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• Wayback Wednesday: Diab-entity Crisis

  
  DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog — Authority: 422
  As a sort of addendum to this Monday’s post, I can’t believe I wrote the following testimonial four whole years ago. Ever more confirmation that the more things change, the more they stay the same:Diab-entity CrisisSometime in the middle of last week, as I was gazing at my blog banner and mulling over my next [...]
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• My Personal Experience As A Mother Of A Diabetic Child

  
  Unique-Article-Database.com — Authority: 159
  Being a parent of a child with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes can be overwhelming at times. When my son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes two years ago, I remember the emotional roller coaster I was experiencing everyday. In the beginning, I was being flooded with a wealth of information. I was trying to listen and ...
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• Diabetes Cases Expected To Double In 25 Years: African Americans At Risk

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 154
  Filed under: Womens Health , Mens Health , Diet & Nutrition , Fitness , Disease Prevention Diabetes cases will nearly double in the U.S. in the next 25 years and the cost of the treating the disease will nearly triple, according to a recent study released by researchers at the University of Chicago. The ...
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• A Kindred Spirit, on Symlin and CGM

  
  DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog — Authority: 422
  By far the most positive thing that has come out of getting this stupid chronic illness is meeting incredible people.  Who knew there were so many wonderful kindred spirits out there, before I began connecting with others who struggle all day every day with carb counts and insulin dosing calcs and potentially ...
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• facts on type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes

  
  check diabetes — Authority: 122
  In this post i am going to present you facts on diabetes type 1 and diabetes type 2 . Type 1 diabetes facts: 1. Blood test 4 times a day. 2. You can get best blood sugar between 4.0 and 10.0. 3. Two types of insulins are present they are Rapid N and NPH. 4. You take needles three times a day. ...
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• The Importance of a Diabetes Diet

  
  Fine Tuning Health — Authority: 146
  If you are dealing with diabetes yourself, whether it is Type 1 or Type 2, then you are going to have to understand the importance of a diabetes diet. Without the right diabetes diet, you are not going to be eating the right things and you could be putting yourself in jeopardy. Therefore it is [...]
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• Diabetes: Just Like The Rest Of Them

  
  Better Health — Authority: 547
  Today, I’m revisiting a post from 2006 (writing that makes me realize I’ve been blogging for a while now!), when I met a little boy at a Rhode Island JDRF event who warmed my heart - which I needed on this snowy, New England morning. *   *   * I’d guess about ten years old.  Spikey blonde hair, pale ...
  2 weeks ago

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