How often do you celebrate your wins with diabetes? Have you ever? Take a moment and pat yourself on the back for all the things you manage on a daily basis. Woke up with a decent blood sugar? Nailed a bolus? Took a walk around the block instead of watching Seinfeld? Drs. E+P remind us how important it is to celebrate our victories, big and small.
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Recently released data from Tzield’s PROTECT study showed that Tzield significantly slowed the decline of C-peptide levels in children and adolescents with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. Further data showed that study participants on Tzield required numerically fewer insulin units and had numerically higher time in range compared to those on placebo.
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Screening for type 1 diabetes is important for people with a family history of the condition, but anyone at any age (and with no family history) can develop type 1 at any time. Screening can detect risk factors long before symptoms develop, offering people valuable time to become educated about the condition and treatment therapies.
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Dr. E’s patient has not had good control of her diabetes in the last 20 years, and her blood sugars run well above 180 mg/dL 80% of the time. She’s a very bright businesswoman, but she pays very little attention to her diabetes. How can Dr. E get her back on track?
read more →Dr. E’s patient Kathy always kept her glucose levels very very low, as she had the misbelief that her A1c should be below 6. As a result, she had several dangerously low blood sugar episodes requiring emergency medical attention. What does Dr. E suggest?
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