T+ MEDICAL & LIFESCAN - A NEW HOPE FOR DIABETIC PATIENTS
Diabetes can be the cause of some pretty serious health issues such as blindness, heart disease, and kidney failure. Insulin dependent patients suffer more severe effect of the disease as opposed to those diabetic patients that are non-insulin dependent.
Islet cells, found in our pancreas, secrete insulin. This insulin performs two major functions for our body. The foods that we eat get broken down into glucose, which our body will use for energy. Insulin helps to move this glucose, as well as fats and protein into cells that will produce energy. Insulin also lowers blood glucose levels, which rise as the glucose is released into the blood stream. Two different types of diabetes are Type 1diabetes and Type 2 diabetes. The difference between the two types is that patients with Type 1 diabetes cannot produce their own insulin and patients with Type 2 diabetes can produce insulin, however their bodies cannot effectively use it. It is hard to identify Type 2 diabetes in the early stages, so this form of the disease takes a toll on the body before it is ever diagnosed.
Now you might be thinking, how you can treat this, right? Treatment is not that difficult provided you are maintaining your proper diet, doing regular exercise, stress controlling & Depression control. To maintain the equilibrium of the glucose level, it's important to keep a well balanced diet. If you have to define the well balanced diet, it should be healthy diet which should be low in cholesterol, sugar, fats & must include the green leafy vegetables. For type 1 patients insulin is the most vital drug. Exercising would also help you in maintaining the blood sugar level. IF, by any chance the above precautionary measures are unable to solve the purpose then oral medication is the solution. Researches are going on and the scientists are really putting their hard work to develop a new method which is more effective to fight against this disease. Once this research is successful, there will be no need of taking Insulin shots and this technique is getting developed by transformation of the stem cells of human into mice.
Over 15 million citizens of USA suffering from diabetes are dependent on daily Insulin shots. Lowering down the blood pressure, level of cholesterol and the glucose level in the blood are the keys to have a control on this disease. People who smoke are more at risk as smoking activates heart disease and the rate is also higher for diabetic people. So, all people suffering from diabetes should quit smoking if they are looking to fight against this disease.
LifeScan is a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson. Lifescan supplies blood glucose monitoring systems which are used in hospitals, meters, test strips, lancing devices, and software which allow diabetics to test the blood sugar levels. t+ Medical is an institution which takes data from LifeScan and wirelessly transmits the information to a central database. t+ Medical has made it possible for people to view this information on their mobile phones and personal computers. Thus patients can monitor their diabetes through this technique. T+ was established in 2002. It provides technology and services catering to the treatment of chronic diseases. The aim of t+Medical is to help mankind fight these deadly diseases and develop cost effective technologies for the healthlthcare providers and diabetics.
Doctors & patients suffering from diabetes are going to be benefited with the venture between Lifescan & t+ Medical. Combination of two different technologies is generating some lifesaving services to the patients. LifeScan's One Touch(R) Ultra(R) System is used by t+ to get the blood glucose readings. This device is pretty small and gives exact results within 5 seconds , so a pretty helpful tool to measure your blood glucose level.
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Julia Hanf author of the book How To Play the Diabetes Diet Game and Win Through a real life crisis Julia figured out how to live diabetes free. Visit http://www.yourdiabetescure.com and learn more about your solution for diabetes.
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