Diabetes Fu

People at greatest risk for serious flu complications are those with compromised immune systems including.

Diabetes fu. In children fast breathing or trouble breathing bluish lips or face ribs pulling in with each breath chest pain severe muscle pain child refuses to walk dehydration no urine for 8 hours dry mouth no tears when crying not alert or interacting when awake seizures fever above 104 f in children. Drink extra calorie free liquids and try to eat as you normally would. When you have diabetes do your best to avoid getting the flu or influenza. There is a body of films that include a character with diabetes as part of the plot.

Here are some tips to protect yourself from the flu and how to take care of yourself if you get sick. You can get a pneumonia shot anytime during the year. We exist to help each other on our journey with diabetes. Characters with diabetes were developed in plots in which the disease played a more significant role in films such as steel magnolias and panic room.

Continue taking your insulin and diabetes pills as usual. Turmeric curcuma longa a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family has been used for the treatment of diabetes in ayurvedic and traditional chinese medicine. If you come down with a cold fever or flu this winter you ll be back. Diabetes can be tricky when you re under the weather.

The active component of turmeric curcumin has caught attention as a potential treatment for diabetes and its complications primarily because it is a relatively safe and inexpensive drug that reduces glycemia and hyperlipidemia in rodent models of diabetes. Losing weight without trying is a sign of high blood glucose. In this section1 prevent the flu2 2019 2020 flu season update3 flu symptoms4 managing diabetes with the flu5 other groups that should get vaccinated6 summary prevent the flu get vaccinated. A pneumonia shot is recommended for anyone with diabetes aged 2 or older.

In the late twentieth century most films references to diabetes were minor. The elderly over 65 years pregnant women and young. The flu can be especially hard on people with diabetes. Specific to diabetes this includes conditions called dka diabetic ketoacidosis and hhs hyperosmolar hyperketotic state which can result in life threatening elevated blood sugars.

Ferguson discussed such films in the journal of medical humanities and reported films that represent diabetes must work around the disease s banal invisibility and image. You should get vaccinated again if you are older than 65 years of. But if you let your blood sugar get out of whack you ll feel worse. Test your blood sugar every 4 hours and keep track of the results.

Welcome to fudiabetes where you will find that you are not alone. Everyone has a chance of catching this viral infection but people with diabetes have a harder time fighting it off. Yet only one third of them ever get a simple safe pneumonia shot.