Treatment and Management Provides tips about the roles of education, healthful eating, exercise, medication, blood sugar monitoring, lifestyle changes, and intensive therapy in diabetes management. Complications Discusses short-term low and high blood sugar, high blood sugar with ketones, and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic syndrome. Tells what to do if you have diabetes and get sick from a cause unrelated to diabetes. Considerations Relating to Pregnancy Provides tips for women with diabetes who are considering becoming pregnant or who are pregnant. Healthy Gives tips for living healthfully with diabetes and caring for the skin, feet, teeth and eyes.
Lists travel tips for people with diabetes.
What to Do When Sick Provides precautions to follow if you have diabetes and become ill from a condition unrelated to diabetes. Blood Sugar Monitoring Discusses home monitoring and the glycosylated hemoglobin blood test. Tells what kind of information to include in your records. Resources Lists Web sites and telephone numbers of interest to people with diabetes.