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Health promotion is an indispensable tool in raising awareness about diabetes. Educating patients about the early signs of diabetes such as polyuria, polydipsia, polyphagia, would make them seek medical help earlier. Also recognizing symptoms like hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia assist the patient in making the right health-related decision. Implementing interventions accordingly to the stages of change is a determinate of a good outcome. There are many community outreach programs that focus in…

FLUCYTOSINE Also known as 5-flurocyrosine or 5-FC. It’s an antifungal drug that is usually formulated with amphotericin for wide range of medical uses, it can be used by mouth for treatment of infections that could be caused by Cryptococcus neoformans or perhaps candida. It could also be used in the treatment of chromblastomycosis (chronic fungal infection of subcutaneous tissue or skin). Because of its weak antifungal action it can’t be used alone for treatment of serious, life threatening…

The trend in Nursing that I chose to write about is diabetes impact on healthcare. I’m very passionate about the subject because I was diagnosed with being pre-diabetic this summer. I know that if I don’t make lifestyle changes, my being pre-diabetic will progress to the chronic condition of being diabetic. In my essay, I will be addressing the issue of non-compliancy through lack of access to medications, food insecurity and the current policies put in place to help diabetics get the…

What can be done to prevent vision and hearing losses with aging? Aging also affects vision and hearing. With age, the elderly' vision and hearing deteriorate. The lens muscle fibers lose their elasticity and become rigid which decrease the ability to focus properly. Additionally, the pupils become smaller which makes their eyesight less accurate. The older adults also have problems seeing at night and are very sensitive to brightness. Presbycusis is defined as “reduces the ability to hear, s,…

Benefits of Increasing Physical Activity on Previously Sedentary Type 1 Diabetic Children Background Type 1 Diabetes is a condition that effects many people, and the disease debilitates their ability to exercise. Type 1 diabetes is caused by a loss or malfunction of the insulin producing cells, called pancreatic beta cells. Damage to the beta cells results in an absence or insufficient amount of insulin produced by the body. Most cases of type 1 diabetes have an autoimmune basis, and the…

Diabetes Mellitus type 2 is a common chronic metabolic disorder and of the main causes of death in the United States. The total prevalence of diabetes in the United States is 25.8 million people, of these; 7.0 million have undiagnosed diabetes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). Among adults, diabetes is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, renal failure, blindness, and non-traumatic amputations of lower extremities (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). The…

During my residency, I learned diagnosis and basic management of common and uncommon pediatric diseases like birth asphyxia, hypoglycemia, respiratory distress, epilepsy, gastroenteritis, meningitis etc. It was also an ambrosial opportunity to see rare conditions such as Colliodion baby, ectodermal dysplasia, Lobster Claw deformity and bilateral elbow neurofibromatosis, few of the…

increase the body’s glucose uptake capability. Some of the differentiated T cells remain as memory cells, continuing the destruction process (Acharjee). The destruction of these cells results in decreased glucose control, which can contribute to both hypoglycemia and ketoacidosis, even if insulin is utilized correctly. T1Ddevelops over the course of many years. The first stage, or preclinical phase, of T1D is defined as the point at which beta cell destruction takes place. The disease is not…

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…