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Commonly asked questions about a Diabetes and Diabetic Leg Ulcer care:
What is Diabetes?
Types of Diabetes?
Signs of Diabetes?
Cause and Prevention of Type II Diabetes?
Diet for Diabetics?
Diabetic Complications?
Diabetic Wound Care?
Do you have Customer Testimonies?
Other valuable Informational Links...
What is Diabetes?
Diabetes, medically termed Diabetes Mellitus, is a immune system disorder causing hyperglycemia (high blood sugar), due to the beta cells of the pancreas not being able to produce sufficient insulin to prevent hyperglycemia. Diabetes Mellitus is considered a chronic disease. If properly managed both short term and long term diabetic related problems can be avoided in most cases.
The word "Diabetes" is derived from the Greek word "Diabainein" which means "passing through" or "siphon". This is a reference to one of the typical symptoms of diabetics - excessive urine production. The word "Mellitus" was added to describe the disease, it stands for "honey" in Latin, a reference to the sweet taste of urine in a diabetic person. The sweet taste in urine was noticed by the ancient Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians and Indians. Diabetes Insipidus, meaning "without taste" in Latin, is diabetes that does not produce sweet urine and can be caused either by kidney or pituitary gland damage.
Types of Diabetes?
Type I Diabetes:
Type I diabetes, also called Childhood-onset Diabetes, Juvenile Diabetes or Insulin-Dependent Diabetes, typically strikes children and young adults. Type I diabetes results after the destruction of beta cells caused by a T-Cell mediated auto-immune attack. Beta cells produce insulin in the pancreas. The pancreas is an organ located behind the lower part of the stomach and is responsible for the production of insulin to help regulate blood sugar levels. Beta cells produce the hormone insulin which helps to transfer glucose contained in food to the cells for energy.
However, when beta cells are destroyed by the body's own immune system, they can not produce insulin and the glucose remains in the blood causing high blood sugar levels. If this condition is not diagnosed and left untreated, it will eventually cause damage to all the organs. Once diagnosed, Type I diabetics must inject insulin throughout the day, constantly balancing and monitoring blood sugar levels, food intake and the effects of exercise in regards to blood sugar levels, in order to avoid the opposite - low blood sugar called hypoglycemia. Both hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels) and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar levels) can be life threatening.
Injecting insulin daily does not cure diabetes, but lets a person stay alive and enjoy life. Type I diabetes can be difficult to manage at times, especially when other factors join the mix such as periods of growth, exercise, stress, hormonal changes, illness, infection, medications and fatigue.
Type II Diabetes:
Type II Diabetes is also referred to as Adult-onset Diabetes, Non-Insulin-Dependent or Insulin Resistant Diabetes. The body either does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin. Type II diabetes is due to a combination of defective insulin secretion and insulin resistance or reduced insulin sensitivity, which typically involves the insulin receptor in cell membranes. The cells in the body of a Type II diabetic are not able to absorb insulin to help transfer the glucose from food intake into the cells for energy.
When glucose builds up in the blood stream, instead of entering the cells for energy, a person's blood sugar level will increase drastically. Another term for high blood sugar level in hyperglycemia. When a body becomes resistant to insulin, eventually it can experience the loss of beta cell function, the cells that produce insulin.
If Type II Diabetes is not diagnosed in an annual routine check-up and is left untreated, a person may eventually experience reduced eye site or blindness, kidney failure, nerve damage and cardiovascular disease.
Gestational Diabetes
Gestational diabetes also involves insulin resistance, similar to Type II diabetes. The changes in hormone levels during a pregnancy can cause insulin resistance. Usually gestational diabetes resolves after giving birth. For more information about gestational diabetes, visit the following link: http://www.diabetes.org/gestational-diabetes.jsp
Pre-Diabetes
Over 50 million people in America are in a state called Pre Diabetic. If a person has consistently high blood glucose levels at regular check-ups, but not high enough to be diagnosed as a diabetic, than that person could be classified as being Pre-Diabetic. There is a good chance that a pre-diabetic person can turn things around before it is too late, simply by switching to a healthy diet and lifestyle including exercise. By loosing weight, quitting smocking, changing to a healthy lifestyle to help reduce cholesterol, Type II Diabetes may be preventable in many cases.
Signs of Diabetes?
- extremely thirsty
- frequent urination
- sugar in urine
- the smell of acetone in breath
- the smell of acetone in breath
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- the smell of acetone in breath
- sudden weight loss
- increased appetite
- changes in vision
- drowsiness / fatigue
- poor wound healing
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Cause and Prevention of Type II Diabetes?
The actual cause of diabetes is still not known. Insulin is the principal hormone that regulates uptake of glucose into most cells from the blood into muscle and fat cells. Most carbohydrates in food is converted to monosaccharide glucose. Carbohydrate cellulose is not converted to glucose, as humans and many animals have no digestive pathway capable of handling cellulose. Insulin is released into the blood by beta cells in the pancreas in response to rising levels of blood glucose, such as after a meal.
Insulin is the hormone that allows most body cells to absorb glucose from the blood for use as fuel and energy. If the amount of insulin available is insufficient, or if the cells respond poorly to the effects of insulin (insulin resistance), or the hormone insulin is defective itself, glucose will not be handled properly by body cells and can not be stored effectively in liver and muscles. In the long run this leads to persistent high levels of blood glucose and diabetes.
Prevention? As mentioned earlier, Type II Diabetes may be preventable, if the signs of Pre-Diabetes are taken seriously and life style changes are made. Unfortunately many people in America today are not only overweight, but obese, due to our sedentary lifestyle, easy access to junk food and little to no exercise routines.
Diabetic tendencies can also run in the family, but I would not go as far as to saying that it is a 'hereditary' disease, as many factors contributing to getting diabetes, are factors that we are in control of, and can influence to our own benefit. It is well known today to the general public via Health Reports on CNN and other health channels, that childhood and adult obesity are contributing factor to Type II diabetes. Central obesity (fat concentrated around the waist in relation to abdominal organs), is known to predispose individuals for insulin resistance, possibly due to it's secretion of adipokines (a group of hormones) that impair glucose tolerance.
Diet for Diabetics?
The first step to help control blood sugar levels in diabetics, is to carefully and methodically plan meals, aimed towards weight loss (if needed) and to encourage a regular moderate exercise regimen. Keeping a strict meal program, may sometimes all that is needed to reverse Type II Diabetes. However in other cases, a strict meal plan and medication will be needed to balance blood sugar levels.
For more information regarding healthy food choices, go to the American Diabetes Association at:
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-prevention/nutrition/healthyfoodchoices.jsp
Diabetic Complications?
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kidney failure
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blindness
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nerve damage
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heart attack and stroke
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hypoglycemia = Low blood glucose levels can lead to agitation and sweaty outbreaks. If not treated with sugary drinks or food, it can lead to seizures, brain damage and death, caused by
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DKA = Diabetic Ketoacidosis, an acute, dangerous complication required emergency medical treatment. A person can go from being very alert, to lethargic and slip into a coma and death!
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microvascular damage that can lead to erectile dysfunction and impotence
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poor wound care
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amputation
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Diabetic Wound Care?
According to our customer’s testimonies, we have found that Active Manuka Honey from New Zealand does not only work for 1st, 2nd, 3rd degree burns, wounds, ulcers, sore and surgical scars, but this honey also drastically speeds up the healing of diabetic wounds. One of the complications that diabetic people face, is to have to deal with the slow wound healing process of a diabetic wound, that may also get infected over time. We have heard of diabetic wounds that people have been suffering from for up to 11 years!
How to apply Active Manuka Honey to any type of wound:
http://www.manukahoneyusa.com/wound.htm
How to apply Active Manuka Honey to any type of wound?
Active Manuka Honey is applied to burns, wounds, ulcers, sores, surgical scars, decubitus sores (bed sores), diabetic leg and foot ulcers, amputation stump wounds and other MRSA and VRE staph infected wounds. Gently wash the wound with a saline solution. Apply Active Manuka Honey to a sterile gauze, similar like spreading honey onto a toast, not too much and not too little. Then apply the gauze with the honey attached to the wound. Apply 2-3 additional layers of gauze on top of the first gauze layer, in order to help soak up excess body fluid and honey. Secure gauze around the edges with skin friendly paper tape to keep the gauze in place.
Change the Active Manuka Honey Wound Dressing once every 24 hours in the evening. Again gently wash the wound with a saline solution and apply the next honey dressing, until the wound is completely healed.
If a wound has a mal odor, it is infected. Once you start applying Active Manuka Honey to a wound, you can expect the mal odor to subside within 5-10 days, depending on the size and depth of the wound, that is about how long it takes to help clear up the infection. Next you will notice that the wound will appear less and less deep. Then you should start to see healthy pink skin form around the edges of the wound and last you’ll notice the edges of the wound shrinking in size, until the wound is completely healed.
We recommend that you document the wound healing progress by taking good, sharp clear digital photos with good lighting. Take a photo about every 3-4 days or more, depending on how fast the wound is healing. When you submit the wound photos to us, and with your permission to publish the photos online at www.manukahoneyusa.com/CustomerTestimonies.htm, we will send you a reward including free shipping. By submitting your photo story to us, you will help other people by encouraging them to give this medicinal honey a try. Do you have Customer Testimonies?
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Doctor Testimony: How Active Manuka Honey quickly healed large open knee wound of diabetic patient
I spoke to you over the phone back in December and ordered the Active Manuka Honey to try on an employee's non-healing knee wound. She had had this wound for three weeks and we had tried oral antibiotic therapy and dressings. The wound always looked purulent and surrounded by angry red tissue. She was also taking Advil to ease the pain. She is diabetic and has had problems with wound healing before. One of the other doctors felt that she would need a skin graft to close the wound.
The wound was open with a gap of .85 cm. The erythema surrounding the wound was about 5 cm and very tender to the touch. She applied the active manuka honey to a dressing once every 24 hours, and merely rinsed the area with a light stream of saline at bandage changing. The next pictures were taken over the next two weeks which showed gradual wound closure. She also stated, that within a few minutes of placing the first dressing on, she no longer had pain, so she stopped the Advil and never had to use it as the treatment continued. By week two, there was just a small pinhole opening at the deepest part of the wound which ultimately closed with continued honey application.
The last picture was taken 6 weeks after start of therapy, which shows a completely healed wound. She also stated that in the past she was a keloid former and had to have radiation to other scars in order to reduce their size. She said this scar was the best she ever had and will continue honey use to see if anymore size reduction can be obtained. She was a very happy patient. All three of the doctors in my clinic were astounded at the result both in ease of care, quick results, and a very satisfactory scar in a patient with a very difficult wound. I hope you can use this information to further your product. I plan on continued use and documentation.
Jill I Spencer, DO (Doctor of Osteopathy)
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Customer Testimony:
Diabetic used Active Manuka Honey as a wound dressing after Foot Amputation
Dear
Folks,
Let me
tell you
about my
experience
with the
amazing
healing
powers
of
Active
Manuka
Honey. About
two
years
ago, I
had to
have my
right
foot
amputated
because
of
diabetic
neuropathy
and
gangrene.
The
surgeons
cut off
nearly
2/3 of
my leg
below
the knee
and
flapped
over the
skin to
act as a
cap for
my
stump.
The
scabbing
was
ungodly
and
almost
too much
to look
at.
Because
of
diabetes,
the odds
for the
wound
healing
in a
timely
manner
in order
to be
fitted
with a
prosthetic
foot was
pretty
distant.
After
messaging
on an
amputee
support
board on
the
Usenet,
several
friends
from
Australia
and New
Zealand
told me
of
Manuka
Honey
and what
it did
for
their
wound
care.
Knowing
that the
world of
homeopathic
remedies
was not
in the
purveyance
of
managed
medicine’s
best
interest
to
promote,
I took a
chance
and
ordered
up a
bottle
of
Active
Manuka
Honey
and
began
liberally
using it
on the
wound
area.
Within a
couple
of days,
my wound
care
home
nurse
was
shocked
when she
removed
the
bandage
to find
the
nearly
two-thirds
of the
scab had
jellified,
coming
off with
the
dressing
and
leaving
healthy,
pink
skin in
its
place.
Another
week
went by
with
continued
treatments,
and it
was
completely
healed.
I had
her and
my
surgeon
asking
me for
printouts
from the
website
(www.manukahoneyusa.com)
to give
to other
patients.
I now
use
Active
Manuka
Honey
for all
cuts,
scrapes
and
abrasions
as the
best
thing to
come
along
since
sliced
bread.
I have
absolutely
no
qualms
about
you
posting
my
testimonial
about
the joys
of
Active
Manuka
Honey.
It is,
after
all, the
main
reason I
shared
it with
you.
After
dealing
with so
many
pharmaceutical
manufactured
ointments,
creams,
topicals,
et al,
with
little
or no
obvious
results,
Active
Manuka
Honey
was like
a magic
elixir.
Thank
you
again
for your
wonderful
gift, as
well as
marketing
a
product
that, to
me, has
been
nothing
short of
miraculous.
Thank
you
Manuka
Honey
USA.
Sincerely
B.L.
Boulder
City, NV
Customer
Testimony:
"How
Active
Manuka
Honey
healed
fresh
amputee
wound
in only
10 days
without
infection!"
I am
diabetic.
My
doctors
just
decided
that
they
will
have to
cut off
my lower
left leg
in order
to save
the rest
of my
leg.
They cut
off my
lower
left
leg,
just
under
the
knee. I
already
knew
about
your
active
manuka
honey
for all
kinds of
wounds,
so I was
going to
try
it out
on my
fresh
operated
stump
wound.
After
ONLY
10 days,
the skin
on my
stump
was
healed
to the
point,
that I
could go
fit a
new leg!
I
was
amazed
at HOW
FAST
the
honey
healed
this
large
wound,
and the
wound
never
got
infected
either.
I'm a
happy
camper
now! My
doctor
was
amazed
too -
maybe
he's a
believer
now?
R.L.M.
Seattle,
WA
Customer Testimony: How Active Manuka Honey helped with blister on Type II Diabetes patient
Dear Elaine, Hi! Enclosed are a couple of pictures of our Sarahs foot with a blister that was quite painful for her. Sarah is 17 years old and has type II diabetes. We applied 'Active Manuka Honey' and 24 hours later, the blister was not sore and cleared up a lot! Thank-you. S.C. Dublin, OH
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purchase
Active Manuka
Honey
for a
diabetic
ulcer or
any
other
Manuka
Product, go to our Secure Online Shopping Cart at:
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