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What happens when someone has diabetes and they drink?

I have a friend that drinks alcohol (not the hard stuff) but he has diabetes. I don’t know what to do because I’m really close to this friend. He always reacts the worst to me out of everyone only when he drinks. I just need some help on how to deal with him and what

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What are the chances of our baby having diabetes?

Right now I’m sort of seeing the man I hope to marry and the other day we brought up the subject of babies. We discussing that there may be a high risk if we had children that one of our babies would have diabetes. Diabetes runs in my family and I believe it runs in

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What is the purpose of a diabetes educator?

Does a diabetes educator diagnose you with diabetes (specifically gestational diabetes in my case) or do they just tell you about diabetes?

Does having diabetes affect when you will start your first period?

I’m thirteen years old almost fourteen i have had diabetes since i was eight years old. I still haven’t started my period. My mom says its proably because i have diabetes. When you have type 1 you have to take insulin which is a hormone. So she says it can affect all of my other

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What is the correlation between diabetes and obesity?

It has been obsereved that Diabetes occurs in people suffering from obesity.There should be some correlation between the two.This may be due to some physioloic,genetic,immunologic or some other factor.As a student of biotechnology,i wanted to know the precise relation between them and the mechanism by which they affect each other.I would also be thankful if

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How can we find local diabetes or cancer foundations to donate to?

We would like to donate money in someone’s name, to a cancer foundation or diabetes foundation or something along those lines. Unfortunately, everyone wants to go online these days and we do not want to donate to a foundation over the internet, we would like to do it in person and have a proof of

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What are the warning signs of gestational diabetes?

I am 27 weeks pregnant, I go in for my glucose test in 3 weeks. I was just wondering if there are any warning signs that I may have gestational diabetes. This is my second pregnancy, I didn’t have any problems with my first pregnancy nor do I have a history of diabetes or high

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What happens if you have diabetes and eat before a blood test?

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?

How does Diabetes hurt the skin? & what are the signs of Diabetes?

I read on the doctors wall where they have posters informing you of different diseases and they had one where diabetes can hurt your skin and said “Protect Your Skin” And I am just curious to know. How does diabetes hurt your skin? What would your skin look like when it is

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What are the chances of her getting diabetes?

My friend wants to know what are her cousins chances of getting diabetes? She is 11, she is pretty skinny, but she eats. A LOT. And hates vegetables. He grandfather and a few people before him had it. It skipped her cousin’s dad and aunt. How could we get her to eat healthier,

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