Sweating is a normal and important bodily function. It helps control your body temperature, keeps your skin hydrated, and helps balance the body’s fluids and electrolytes. However, people with diabetes can experience altered sweat patterns.
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How to survive the common cold with diabetes
Having a cold is never fun. But when you have diabetes and a cold there’s an added risk to all that sniffing and sneezing: as your body sends out extra hormones to fight infection, it can alter your body’s sugar and insulin response.
‘Diabetes dogs’ can help owners detect hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia
For many years, dogs have been trained to help people with a disability or chronic illness, such as blindness or epilepsy. Recently, though, dogs have been trained to help people with diabetes .
Walking the tightrope…the ups and downs of low blood sugar levels
Watching someone you care about having an episode of low blood sugar or hypoglycemia can often be a frightening and confusing event.
