8 Valuable Diabetes Lessons That Will Save Your Life

#3 – Listen to Your Body

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Your body communicates with you on a daily basis through stimulus responses. It’s important to have body awareness and notice these responses; how your body reacts to food, exercise, and environmental conditions.

When certain people experience low blood sugar, their eyelids droop, their personality gets louder, and their reflexes are slower. In fact, everyone has telltale signs that indicate something strange is going on in their body, and if you could detect them early enough, you can avoid emergencies and complications.

#4 – Store Your Medications Properly

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Many diabetics, especially those with Type I diabetes, are insulin dependent. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas and is responsible for regulating blood glucose levels; and since Type I diabetics don’t produce this hormone, they need to inject it into their bodies.

Insulin can stay at room temperature for up to one week, but one of the things your pharmacists will probably never tell you is that it’s best to store it in the refrigerator because the extreme change in temperature can impact its efficacy.

In fact, proper storage is vital for any medicine. The tiniest change in moisture, air, light, and heat has the potential to damage the medicine, and also to make it harmful due to change in its chemistry. For instance, when aspirin reacts with moisture it turns into a different chemical.
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