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Diabetes Patient Education
Subcutaneous Injection

The equipment you will need to assemble includes:
* a 1 ml. syringe with a 25 or 26 gauge capped needle between 5/8″ and 1 inch in length * the medication to be given * two alcohol wipes.Carefully, wash and dry your hands.
If your medication comes in a multi-dose vial,
clean the rubber diaphragm of the vial with an alcohol wipe. Discard the wipe into the trash.
Remove the cap from the needle. Pull down the plunger of the needle until the syringe contains the same volume of air as the medication you are going to give.
Hold the vial upside down at eye level. Without touching the needle, insert it through the diaphragm of the vial. Diabetes Patient Education
Keep the tip of the needle below the level of the medication in the vial. Depress the plunger to inject the air into the vial.
Slowly pull down on the plunger to take into the syringe the amount of medication prescribed for you.
Pull the needle out of the vial.
Hold the syringe vertically and flick the barrel with a fingernail to make any air bubbles float to the top under the needle. Diabetes Patient Education
Carefully, depress the plunger to push out the air until the first drop of medication comes out of the bevel of the needle.
Clean the injection site with an alcohol wipe. Start at the proposed site. Wipe in a circular motion, moving outward with each circle to prepare an area 2-3 inches in diameter around the injection site. Let the alcohol dry and discard the wipe into the trash.
Insert the needle through the skin at a 45� angle so that the tip of the needle is under the skin and above the muscle layer.
Gently pull back on the plunger to make sure the tip of the needle is not in a blood vessel … Diabetes Patient Education
… and then slowly inject the medication.
When all the medication is injected, pull the needle out. There is no need to use a band-aid, unless blood appears at the injection site.
Discard the syringe and attached needle into your puncture proof Sharps container. Do not recap the needle.
Wash and dry your hands.
If during the injection, blood does appear in the syringe when you pull the plunger back,
pull the needle out and discard the syringe, needle and medication into your Sharps container and start the whole process again.
Your doctor or nurse will advise you which areas of the body to use for your injections. The injection site should always be rotated so that consecutive injections are never given into the same area.
If you have very little fat under your skin, you can pinch the skin to form a tent, into which the injection can be given.
The needle is then inserted more vertically.

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Joel Fuhrman MD has cured hundreds of people of diabetes using diet and lifestyle. The American Diabetic Association wanted him to write about his work — but then objected because their sponsor, Eli Lilly drug company, might feel threatened by an MD promoting a cure which could destroy the market for their diabetes medications. This is an excerpt from Dr. Furhman’s presentation at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo 2007.

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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with ‘incurable’ diabetes switching their diet and getting off insulin.

The film follows each participant’s remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this diet and lifestyle change. We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse diabetes* and change lives.

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I have a male dwarf hamster. He is active he eats and drinks fine. I don’t think he has diabetes I just want to know for future reference.

I don’t think Hamster’s can get diabetes but the vet would give you the best answer!

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I am very involved in university sports, and compete at a very high level. I just got tested and do not know the results yet but I’m just wondering, How much does diabetes decrease your athletic performance? I Heard your never really the same after athletically after diagnosed with diabetes.

There are many successful diabetic athletes. Do a Google search on "type 1 diabetic athletes" and you’ll see that diabetes will add some extra challenges but doesn’t mean that your athletic performance must suffer.

Here is a partial list of diabetic athletes. There’s also a pro cycling group called "team type 1"

Wasim Akram – Pakistani cricket fast bowler

Arthur Ashe – Tennis – Wimbledon winner

Walter Barnes – Football and actor. Before acting career he played professional football for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles, 1948-1951.

Sarah Bina – Championship clogger

Ayden Byle – Runner – First insulin-dependent man to run 6521.5 km across North America.

Nick Boynton – Hockey Player – Boston Bruins

Doug Burns – Fitness consultant, Record-holding strength athlete

Sean Busby – Champion Snowboarder

Bobby Clarke – NHL – Philadelphia Flyers

Ty Cobb – MLB – Detroit Tigers

Scott Coleman – Swimmer – first man with diabetes to swim the English Channel, (August 17th 1996)

Jay Cutler – Football Player

Chris Dudley – NBA – New York Knicks center

James “Buster” Douglas – Heavy Weight Boxer

Kenny Duckett – NFL – New Orleans Saints

Rick Dudley – Hockey

Scott Dunton – World Class Surfer

Mike Echols – NFL – Tennessee Titans

Pam Fernandes – Para Olympian

Missy Foy – Professional Marathon Runner

Curt Frasier – NHL – Chicago Black Hawks

Walt Frazier – ­ NBA – New York Knicks

“Smokin’ Joe” Frazier – Boxing

Kris Freeman – Olympic and National Champion Cross-Country Skier

Joe Gibbs – NFL – Washington Redskins coach

Bill Gullickson – MLB – Cincinnati Reds Pitcher

Gary Hall Jr. – US Olympic Gold Medalist, Swimming

Jonathan Hayes – NFL – Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs

Dave Hollins – 1993 Phillies World Series Third Baseman

James "Catfish" Hunter – MLB – Pitcher, Baseball Hall-of-Famer

Chuck Heidenrich – Skiing

Chris Jarvis – World Champion Canadian Rower

Jason Johnson – MLB – Pitcher, Cleveland Indians

Kelli Keuhne – LPGA golfer

Billie Jean King – Tennis

Jay Leeuwenburg – NFL – Indianapolis Colts Lineman

Mark Lowe – Major League Baseball

Michael Earl Malone -­ Son of former NBA star Moses Malone.

Robert "Gorilla Monsoon" Marella -Professional wrestler and commentator

Michelle McGann – LPGA golfer

Adam Morrison – Basketball Player, Gonzaga University

Brandon Morrow -Seattle Mariners Pitcher

David Pember – MLB – Milwaukee Brewers

Toby Petersen – NHL – Pittsburgh Penguins, Dallas Stars

Sir Steven Redgrave – Rower – Winner of five consecutive Olympic gold medals

Dan Reichert – MLB – Kansas City Royals

Ham Richardson – Tennis star

Jackie Robinson – Baseball Player

Sugar Ray Robinson – Boxing

Ron Santo – MLB – Chicago Cubs legend

Mike Sinclair – NFL – Philadelphia Eagles

Kendall Simmons – NFL – Pittsburgh Steelers

Hank Stram – NFL – Kansas City Chiefs Coach

Bradley Suttle – Texas Longhorns – Second Baseman

Bill Talbert – Hall of Fame tennis player

Sherri Turner – LPGA golfer

Scott Verplank – PGA golfer

Everson Walls – Football player

Jo Ann Washam – LPGA golfer

David "Boomer" Wells – San Diego Padres Pitcher

Wade Wilson – NFL player and Dallas Cowboys quarterback coach

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My husband is 31 years old. He got type 2 diabetes 4 years ago. We now have a newborn and I’m nervous he will get diabetes in his life as well. Anyone know the risks? Thank you!

PS – I am not diabetic and did not have gestational diabetes either. My son was born full term and of healthy weight and size.

There is a predisposition to type 2 diabetes, but there also a life style component. You have many good answers on here. You also might want to check out the American Diabetes Asso. website. There is much good information on there. There are other websites as well. Of course, you will also want to ask your child’s pediatrician what you can do to limit the risks. Your concern and education will help give them a healthy future. Take care.

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Diabetes runs in my family and I’m probably going to get it any time now. My job gives annual physicals and if I’m found to have diabetes, I’ll be fired. Would eating before a blood test stabilize my sugar level if I get it, or just mess everything up?

Eating before the blood test will cause your blood sugar to go higher. So for many people they’ll eat breakfast and have honey, sugar in the coffee, etc and test borderline for diabetes – then have to go back and re-do it as a fasting blood sugar to get a better reading.

So if I were you would not eat before it at all — or if you have to have very low carbs, sugar, etc.

Also, if you WERE to have diabetes, it is against the law to fire you for this. You would be covered under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). So try not to worry about that.

Good luck!

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I am underweight and wish to gain adequate mass. But the most common suggestion is to increase calorie intake. Question is how increased calories cannot cause diabetes or does it? We all know that taking more calories than what is needed by the body can cause diabetes in the long run. Please let me know how I can gain weight without the risk of progressing to diabetes.

Diabetes, Will only occur if the body consumes far too much carbohydrates and high sugar foods, that the Insulin becomes immune to the glucose or sugar meaning it wont work and convert the glucose into energy this happens when for long periods of time high sugar foods are consumed and not a short term issue.
I suspect it is the Media that has raised this concern with you, if you are "underweight" im sure this will not be a concern to you as long as you plan to put on weight with a varied yet healthy diet and do not binge out on individual food groups.

Also check with a doctor or GP for the best way to put on weight.

Good Luck

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