a sweetener with no calories and no nutritional value.
a type of diabetes caused by another disease or certain drugs or chemicals.
in diabetes, the ongoing process of managing diabetes. Includes meal planning, planned physical activity, blood glucose monitoring, taking diabetes medicines, handling episodes of illness and of low and high blood glucose, managing diabetes when traveling, and more. The person with diabetes designs…
a container for disposal of used needles and syringes; often made of hard plastic so that needles cannot poke through.
a type of insulin that starts to lower blood glucose within 30 minutes after injection and has its strongest effect 2 to 5 hours after injection. See regular insulin.
the unintended action(s) of a drug.
a set of instructions for adjusting insulin on the basis of blood glucose test results, meals, or activity levels.
when the blood glucose level swings high following hypoglycemia. The Somogyi effect may follow an untreated hypoglycemic episode during the night and is caused by the release of stress hormones.
1. A sugar alcohol (sweetener) with 4 calories per gram. 2. A substance produced by the body in people with diabetes that can cause damage to the eyes and nerves.
division of a prescribed daily dose of insulin into two or more injections given over the course of the day.