Diabetic neuropathy

About Diabetic Retinopathy Evidently, people living with diabetes may have to deal with several health complications ranging from mild to severe. These complications can either be long-term or short-term, and can impact on the patient's overall health. Basically, different parts of the patient's body can be affected including the eyes, heart, kidneys and nerves. However, according to a recent study by the National Eye Institute, diabetic retinopathy has become one of the most common diabetic…

What is a mom? According to google a mom is “a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth” but the word mom means something different to everyone. To some the word “mom” can mean a friend, hard worker , a teacher, or even a superhero. To others it could mean control freak, someone who knows no boundaries, or an evil dictator. My mom has fulfilled all of these roles at one time or another. Sometimes, she was all of these at once. My mom has worked hard her entire life…

do an A1C, influenza vaccine, and one eye exam. The expected outcome of this research is reducing the number of incidences of Diabetic Retinopathy in adults 18 to 75 years of age. The Health Promotion Model (HPM) will be used in my research to show how increased knowledge about diabetes and health management will benefit a diabetic patient and reduce incidences of diabetic retinopathy. The model emphasizes the need to be properly protected and…

Diabetic retinopathy (DR), which affects approximately one-third of the 29 million Americans with diabetes mellitus (DM), is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in US working-age adults. Our lab has previously shown a link between specific European mitochondrial haplogroups and DR severity, but not the presence of DR. A follow-up study by the lab showed that higher glycosylated hemoglobin is a proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) risk factor only in DR patients from mitochondrial…

1.7 million new Americans being diagnosed each year. Roughly twenty-five percent of the 1.7 million newly diagnosed diabetics every year are people over the age of sixty-five (diabetics.org, 2014). Over the next fifteen years, as the baby boomer generation begins reaching the age of sixty-five and older, the percentage of elderly diagnosed diabetics will increase. Often, diabetics are seen in the hospital repeatedly due to not controlling their diabetes, which can lead to a variety of other…

Developmental Age: Growth and Development According to Erickson’s developmental theory, patient is in Middle adulthood in the Generativity vs. Stagnation stage. Erikson argued that when adults focus too exclusively on the dependence of their children, they may forget about the importance of their own dependence on the next generation (Jensen, 2014, p.166). During this stage adults suffer from changes in their physical state such as andropause and some of the health concerns at this point are…

Peripheral Neuropathy Overview- Peripheral neuropathy is a term that describes the damage to one or more of your peripheral nerves. This affects messages traveling between the central nervous system and the peripheral system. There are several conditions that may lead to peripheral neuropathy. Diabetes is the most common cause of chronic peripheral neuropathy. The sign and symptoms of peripheral neuropathy depend on which type of peripheral nerves are damaged (sensory, motor or autonomic nerves)…

Rebounding: One of the Greatest Investments of My Life A year ago I accidentally made an amazing discovery. Years ago, I had a debilitating cat bite injury while working as a vet assistant. One of the conditions the cat bite caused was lymphadenopathy, a painful auto-immune disorder. My desperation for relief often resulted in late night google searching. One night I stumbled upon rebounding on a trampoline as a means of flushing lymph nodes. Please keep in mind, per our blog integrity, that I…

Sitagliptin is a drug that has proven its effectiveness towards managing type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease characterized by relative lack of insulin. It consists of insulin resistance as well as dysfunction of β-cells. Insulin resistance indicates that more insulin is required for normal body functioning along with decreased insulin concentration at all levels.4 This lowers the glucose transporter action associated with insulin deficiency.4 Malfunctioning of pancreatic…

Difference and Similarities of Lantus and Levemir Lantus and Levemir are the type of long-acting insulin which is injectable and used in the treatment of diabetes. They can be used by both children and adults. Human insulin is made up of amino acid chains, A and B. Insulin is produced naturally in the body by the pancreas. It converts tissues in the bloodstream into energy which we use daily. With no insulin in the torso, the sugar levels will become dangerously high and out of balance. Hence,…