My son now diabetic

My son, who is adult and physically disabled, has now been diagnosed
as a type two diabetic. I am his permanent carer and although I have
experience nursing since his accident, have none with diabetes.

What are some of the things that I have to be aware of in order to
give him the best care?

Beth

"Beth Chisholm" wrote in message
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My son, who is adult and physically disabled, has now been diagnosed
as a type two diabetic. I am his permanent carer and although I have
experience nursing since his accident, have none with diabetes.

What are some of the things that I have to be aware of in order to
give him the best care?

There are a lot of classes and a lot of books. Talk to your doctor. Maybe
your insurance covers some classes, or maybe you can find some free or
inexpensive classes to take through a local hospital.

The most important thing is diet, followed by exercise if that is possible.
Watch your son's cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. That stuff is more
critical now than ever before.

Are you monitoring his blood sugar? What are you seeing in terms of his
sugar levels? 200? 400?

Daven

"Beth Chisholm" wrote in message
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My son, who is adult and physically disabled, has now been diagnosed
as a type two diabetic. I am his permanent carer and although I have
experience nursing since his accident, have none with diabetes.

What are some of the things that I have to be aware of in order to
give him the best care?

There are a lot of classes and a lot of books. Talk to your doctor. Maybe
your insurance covers some classes, or maybe you can find some free or
inexpensive classes to take through a local hospital.

The most important thing is diet, followed by exercise if that is possible.
Watch your son's cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. That stuff is more
critical now than ever before.

Are you monitoring his blood sugar? What are you seeing in terms of his
sugar levels? 200? 400?

Daven

"Beth Chisholm" wrote in message
om...
My son, who is adult and physically disabled, has now been diagnosed
as a type two diabetic. I am his permanent carer and although I have
experience nursing since his accident, have none with diabetes.

What are some of the things that I have to be aware of in order to
give him the best care?

Beth

You mean the doctor left you hanging with no references? Get a different
doctor if you can. Also talk to the hospital where you may have to take him
for dialysis eventually.

"Beth Chisholm" wrote in message
om...
My son, who is adult and physically disabled, has now been diagnosed
as a type two diabetic. I am his permanent carer and although I have
experience nursing since his accident, have none with diabetes.

What are some of the things that I have to be aware of in order to
give him the best care?

Beth

You mean the doctor left you hanging with no references? Get a different
doctor if you can. Also talk to the hospital where you may have to take him
for dialysis eventually.

Beth Chisholm wrote:
His A1c is 124, his morning or fasting is around 140, after meals it
comes back to 120 or so. They say that it isn't too bad, but unless I
modify his diet, it will get worse. I have a book on diabetic diets
but it seems to suggest foods that are high in carbohydates. I have
changed soda to diet sodas, and have stopped all pasta and rice meals.
That seemed to make a bit of difference.

Here is how to find the best diet for him.
http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm

"Beth Chisholm" wrote in message
om...
My son, who is adult and physically disabled, has now been diagnosed
as a type two diabetic. I am his permanent carer and although I have
experience nursing since his accident, have none with diabetes.

What are some of the things that I have to be aware of in order to
give him the best care?

The diet is of concern and other posters have discussed it. I post to say
pay close attention to proper foot care and have a doctor or nurse educate
you on this extremely important matter.

Beth Chisholm wrote:

My son, who is adult and physically disabled, has now been diagnosed
as a type two diabetic. I am his permanent carer and although I have
experience nursing since his accident, have none with diabetes.

What are some of the things that I have to be aware of in order to
give him the best care?

Beth

He needs to find some form of exercise that can get his body using up
stored energy. He'll start changing at a cellular level to have more
cellular ability to burn fat and be less prone to store fat, i.e., he'll
stop being insulin resistant. I found that high intensity interval
training utterly and completely reversed my pre-diabetes.

The fact that he's physically disabled certainly makes this a more
challenging puzzle. Can you elaborate on his injury so we can help you
brainstorm a bit?

Dally

Beth Chisholm wrote:

My son, who is adult and physically disabled, has now been diagnosed
as a type two diabetic. I am his permanent carer and although I have
experience nursing since his accident, have none with diabetes.

What are some of the things that I have to be aware of in order to
give him the best care?

Beth

He needs to find some form of exercise that can get his body using up
stored energy. He'll start changing at a cellular level to have more
cellular ability to burn fat and be less prone to store fat, i.e., he'll
stop being insulin resistant. I found that high intensity interval
training utterly and completely reversed my pre-diabetes.

The fact that he's physically disabled certainly makes this a more
challenging puzzle. Can you elaborate on his injury so we can help you
brainstorm a bit?

Dally

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On 3 Dec 2004 01:02:48 -0800, (Beth
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My son, who is adult and physically disabled, has now been diagnosed
as a type two diabetic. I am his permanent carer and although I have
experience nursing since his accident, have none with diabetes.

What are some of the things that I have to be aware of in order to
give him the best care?

Beth


My ex-partner was diabetic, not sure of the type but it was the worse
kind and had to have daily injections. She was born with it and by
the time was 28 still hadn't managed to keep it under control all the
time.

Your best friend is the drink lucazade - ALWAYS have a few bottles in
the fridge, I used to carry it in my coat pocket all the time too
when was with her. She would be fine one minute and the next acting
drunk - half a bottle of luczade and she was back to normal.

Only problem I really had was at night when we were sleeping and an
attack came on. Getting her to drink lucazade was a real pain - she
never wanted too have it and just talked rubbish. In the end you
have to force them - sometimes with force. Better than them dieing.

Don't want to worry you too much, but at the end of the day every
case is different.

Indeed, you're describing type I diabetes, where the body doesn't make
insulin. she's describing type II diabetes where the body stops using
the insulin it makes appropriately - usually because of long bouts of
over-eating and under-excercising.

Dally