ASK YOUR FAMILY HEALTH TEAM--what are the warning signs when a person with diabetes can have?

The following column is a template from the Amherstburg, Ontario family health team. Amherstburg, Ontario family health team located in seasons Amherstburg on 681 front Road South. Their phone number is 519-736-7770 and your site is www.afht.ca.

Question: I think my wife diabetes, have than you always thirsty. Are there different types of diabetes and what other warning signs are?

Answer: Many people can have diabetes and don't know it as thirsty as some of the early signs seem the seriously. We recommend your wife talk to your doctor or qualified health professional, as a simple blood test detects if there is excess glucose. Research shows patients at a higher risk of developing diabetes are over 40 years old.

There are three types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is on usually diagnosed during childhood and teenage years and delivers if the pancreas to produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that controls the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood. The body produces glucose from food you eat to give your body energy, but needs insulin to use it. About 10 percent of people with diabetes have type 1 diabetes. The cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown; However, we know it is unavoidable, and it is not caused by eating too much sugar. Anyone with type 1 diabetes must take insulin.

The remaining 90% have diabetes type 2 that occurs when the pancreas produces enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use insulin, which produces. Type 2 diabetes developed in adulthood, although more and more children in high-risk populations is diagnosed. People with type 2 diabetes can manage your condition with lifestyle changes like eat healthy and be physically active. Take also oral diabetes medications or insulin.

The third type of diabetes is gestational diabetes and occurs during pregnancy. It is usually a temporary condition. Less than four percent of all pregnancies are complicated by gestational diabetes. Women who have had gestational diabetes are much more likely to type 2 diabetes later in life, to develop as your children.

Some other warning signs are overweight (especially around your middle), parent, brother or sister with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or other fats in the blood, giving birth to a baby had gestational diabetes over 4 kg (9 lbs).

Signs that you may diabetes or high blood glucose levels feeling more thirsty include frequent urination, a sudden change in weight, either a profit or loss, lack of energy or tired more than usually, blurred vision, infections are more common or recurring, injuries such as cuts and bruises that are slow to heal, tingling or no feeling in your hands or feet

Remember many people - the diabetes have show none of these symptoms. So don't just watch for signs - know the risk factors. Regular annual laboratory screening can diagnose diabetes before you begin after symptoms. This often happens when your annual physical examination.

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Vaccination: Influenza crisis warning for pregnant women

Less than one fifth of the healthy pregnant women in Scotland offered winter flu jab have adopted vaccination, it emerged yesterday as doctors, warns that "major influenza crisis is brewing. Figures show this vaccine uptake of influenza in General for Scotland is a bit higher than the same time last year, 69%-65s, comparison of 68.9%.

-65s in at-risk groups, such as those with chronic diseases is

slightly lower at 45% compared to 46%.

But Jim McMenamin, flu lead programme of health protection in Scotland, said absorption of the vaccine influenza in healthy pregnant women, at the time stood just 18.9%.

Therefore, the case of Morrison's Ashleigh, who is seriously ill with influenza in Crosshouse hospital in equations, after having given birth as last weekend. Last night her condition described as critical, but stable.

Uptake of the vaccine influenza in pregnant women with conditions such as asthma risk around 44% but fell to less than 20% in those who are healthy.

DR. McMenamin said authorities are keen to promote more pregnant women to adopt influenza vaccine to protect them and their babies.

"The last thing we want is for anyone to come cropper influenza and we know that maximise the uptake in this group is something we are to succeed," he said. British Medical Association in England yesterday expresses to absorb the vaccine and the doctors are "deep crisis in the great influenza is zaparvane this winter.

Chief Medical Officer Dr. Harry Burns said, "we should underestimate seasonal flu-is a very serious illness. I urge anyone who has the right to receive an influenza vaccine to get one as soon as possible. "

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