The Encyclopedia of Practical Advice
Diabetes
Keep your diabetes under control
Helps patients learn interactively about blood sugar management with a comprehensive chart to record blood sugar, meals, and medicines.
- What are diabetes problems?
- Will I have diabetes problems?
- What should my blood sugar numbers be?
- How can I find out what my average blood sugar is?
- What should I do about blood pressure?
- What should I know and do about smoking?
- What else can I do to prevent diabetes problems?
- Things to check for good diabetes care
- Things to do every day for good diabetes care
- Things for your health care provider to look at every time you have a checkup
- Things for you or your health care provider to do at least once or twice a year
- How to use the daily diabetes record page
- Printouts
Keep your eyes healthy
Defines and illustrates the different parts of the eye and the various forms of eye damage that can result from diabetes. Also teaches patients how to prevent or delay eye damage from diabetes.
- What are diabetes problems?
- What should I do each day to stay healthy with diabetes?
- What can I do to prevent diabetes eye problems?
- How can diabetes hurt my eyes?
- How can diabetes hurt the retinas of my eyes?
- What happens as diabetes retina problems get worse?
- What can I do about diabetes retina problems?
- How do I know if I have retina damage from diabetes?
- Does diabetes cause other eye problems?
Keep your feet and skin healthy
Discusses how diabetes can lead to feet and skin problems. Illustrates the different foot problems that can occur and teaches people how to care for their feet and skin to prevent these complications.
- What are diabetes problems?
- What should I do each day to stay healthy with diabetes?
- How can diabetes hurt my feet?
- What can I do to take care of my feet?
- How can I get my doctor to help me take care of my feet?
- What are common diabetes foot problems?
- How can special shoes help my feet?
- How can diabetes hurt my skin?
- What can I do to take care of my skin?
Keep your heart and blood vessels healthy
Descibes the role of the heart and blood vessels. Details the damage diabetes can cause to the heart and blood vessels and explains how to prevent and treat these complications.
- What are diabetes problems?
- What should I do each day to stay healthy with diabetes?
- What do my heart and blood vessels do?
- What damages my heart and blood vessels?
- What can I do to prevent heart and blood vessel problems?
- How do my blood vessels get clogged?
- What heart problems can unhealthy blood vessels cause?
- How does heart disease cause high blood pressure?
- What are the warning signs of a stroke?
- How can clogged blood vessels hurt my legs and feet?
- What can I do to prevent or control peripheral vascular disease?
- Which medical tests will help me keep track of any heart or blood vessel problems?
Keep your kidneys healthy
Describes kidney function and then kidney damage as a complication of diabetes. Explains and illustrates how to prevent kidney problems, test for kidney damage, and treat kidney disease.
- What are diabetes problems?
- What should I do each day to stay healthy with diabetes?
- What do my kidneys do?
- How can I prevent diabetes kidney problems?
- Is there a medicine to slow down kidney damage?
- How can my doctor protect my kidneys during special x-ray tests?
- How can diabetes hurt my kidneys?
- What can I do if I have diabetes kidney problems?
- How will I know if my kidneys fail?
- What happens if my kidneys fail?
- Will I know if I start to have kidney problems?
- How can I find out if I have kidney problems?
- Will my doctor do other kidney tests?
Keep your nervous system healthy
Provides information on and detailed illustrations of the various parts of the nervous system and explains how uncontrolled diabetes can damage these individual components. Also explains how to prevent and treat these problems.
- What are diabetes problems?
- What should I do each day to stay healthy with diabetes?
- What can I do to prevent diabetes from damaging my nervous system?
- What can I do to take care of my feet?
- What does my nervous system do?
- How can diabetes hurt my nervous system?
- How can diabetes damage to the peripheral nerves affect me?
- How can diabetes damage to the autonomic nerves affect me?
- How can diabetes damage to the cranial nerves affect me?
- How do I know if I have nerve damage?
Keep your teeth and gums healthy
Teaches people how diabetes can damage teeth and gums and how this damage can be prevented. Focuses on proper dental care and frequent dental visits.