Tips To Dispose of Your Insulin Syringes Safely Living with diabetes means a lot of pricked fingers and insulin injections. As necessary as they are, diabetic treatments and testing can mean a lot of used sharps. If you’ve been newly diagnosed, you may not be familiar...
What Type 1 Diabetes Symptoms You Need to Look For Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition that affects the pancreas. For unknown reasons, the immune system attacks and destroys the pancreas’s beta cells, rendering patients unable to create insulin. Because insulin...
Recommended New Guidelines Regarding Type 1 Diabetes and Coronavirus The American Diabetes Association and other national diabetes advocacy organizations have recommended updated coronavirus guidelines for people with type 1 diabetes. The current recommendations from...
The coronavirus has proven to be a deadly foe, especially for people with certain pre-existing conditions. Since early in 2020, medical professionals have cautioned that individuals with type 1 or type 2 diabetes should be considered part of the vulnerable population....
Being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes can be both relieving and depressing news — on the one hand, you now know what’s wrong and can create a treatment plan, but on the other, your whole life has changed instantly. A diabetes diagnosis can also be scary, especially...
It’s common knowledge that diabetes is divided into types 1 and 2, but what are the differences and why is it important to know them? As a chronic illness, diabetes needs to be managed daily, and understanding the type you have is important to doing so effectively....
