Diabetes insipidus

can occur in patients with Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes. It leads to high blood glucose levels and the presence of ketones in the urine, as well as certain acids in the blood. Diabetic acidosis requires immediate hospitalisation for treatment with fluid and insulin. Any infection present may require antibiotic treatment. Diabetic acidosis can usually be avoided through proper treatment of Type 1 diabetes. What causes diabetic acidosis? The…

Introduction: Diabetes refers to group of certain metabolic problems caused either by low or no insulin secretion by pancreas or no response by insulin receptors to glucose binding insulin molecules. The disease is also known as diabetes mellitus and has three different types (type 1, type 2, gestational). It is a major problem and significantly affected the health of large population of Australia. Indigenous people tend to experience this problem in earlier age as compared to other Australians…

common is diabetes. Diabetes develops as a result of an imbalance in blood sugar levels. An increase in diabetes has proven that the disease is becoming more common than before. More than 220 million people worldwide have been known to have diabetes and the World Health Organization predicts that the number of diabetes will increase much higher by 2030.(World Health Organization, 2010). There are two main types of diabetes which is diabetes type 1, which is known as insulin-dependant diabetes…

Diabetes Millions of people around the world today have been diagnosed with diabetes. Including 29 million people in the United States, that is roughly 9.3 percent according to the center for disease control. Worldwide this disease afflicts over 380 million people. Today diabetes takes more lives than breast cancer and AIDS combined (diabetesresearch.org). So what is diabetes and how can you prevent this disease? Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the body’s inability to produce any or…

Disease Diabetes is a condition where the body is incapable, unable to process or produces a reduced amount of insulin. This is when the pancreas starts producing excess insulin. The pancreas makes up for the body’s inability to produce insulin naturally. According to International Diabetes Federation (2015), There are currently roughly 415 million people living with diabetes. This translates to about one in every 11 people are currently diagnosed with a type of diabetes. This would translate…

for about two weeks when I encountered a patient that was on continuous Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) and nothing by mouth (NPO) due to severe dysphasia secondary to advanced Multiple Sclerosis. The patient also had a medical history of type one Diabetes Mellitus. During my 11 AM medication pass, I noticed the patient was still in bed and refusing physical therapy. I went into the patient 's room and after a few key assessment questions identified the patient was demonstrating many of the…

The patient I received is a 66-year old man with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. He is having trouble controlling his diabetes and developed diabetic neuropathy. Because of this, he began to lose sensation in his feet and soon developed a diabetic foot ulcer. Having a well informed and trained care team is essential to the improvement of patient health. The facility can provide nurses with further education about diabetic foot ulcers and specific wound care and treatment. Having this extra knowledge…

cool extremities, diminished peripheral pulses and swollen leg. In this situation, it may be due to health issues, such as obesity, hypertension or hypercholesterolemia and diabetes which may be all present in the patient considering his history. According to UK GP Research Database, a retrospective study identified Type 2 diabetes as a risk factor for healing complications, regardless of the fracture site. For healing to take place, the site needs adequate stability, good circulation and…

diabetic in nature. The chart should be prepared in a proper manner so that you can get the highest benefits. Do you wish to make effective diabetes management? Well, in this case you just need to follow a proper blood glucose level chart. This chart cannot be prepared by self-efforts rather you have to take the help of any expert doctor who is looking after your diabetes trouble. This chart is being created in order to find out that whether your sugar levels are increasing or not. This is…

Everyone knows the common joke “Billy has 10 candy bars, he eats 9, what does Billy have? Diabetes.” Billy does not have diabetes. More than likely billy has a giant belly ache now. Everyone characterizes diabetes as someone “fat”, or someone that gets diabetes because they ate too much sugar. In reality people do not realize that there are two types of diabetes. Type one diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, is developed at a young age, while type two, also known as adult onset, is…