As we all know, haemoglobin is the part of red blood cells that carries oxygen from lungs to different body cells. One of the parts of haemoglobin binds to glucose present in the blood named as glycosylated haemoglobin. It is commonly known as HbA1c. It is the measure used to identify the three months average…

It’s been a long journey with diabetes and I have seen a lot many advancements in medicine. Here’s a trip down memory lane with my diabetes and how gradually I was shifted from one regimen to another. #1 Bovine insulin The day I was diagnosed with T1D, treatment was started with bovine insulin. (Unfortunately I…

 Kussmaul breathing is a deep and laboured breathing with severe gasping usually associated with Diabetic ketoacidosis. This is a very quick and life saving response of lungs to high amounts of ketoacids in blood. (There are many other reasons to Kussmaul breathing too but here we are mainly concerned with diabetes). Why it is an…

DKA is a very serious complication in diabetics when body is short of insulin.  In this condition, when there is a lack of insulin and glucose is not utilised by body cells for energy, body breaks down fat cells into ketones or ketoacids leading to an acidic pH in body. Who are at risk? People…

  When you are hyperglycaemic, it’s a ‘No exercise day’! It is always prudent to check your blood glucose levels before doing any type of physical exercise. This is very important for all the diabetics (especially T1D), as it may result in hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia both. Yes! You read it right, it may result in…

It is a very common practice in T1 diabetics to keep checking their blood glucose levels multiple times a day, but some days when you are hyperglycaemic, it is good to check ketone bodies also, in either blood or urine.  What are ketone bodies? Ketones are the type of acids formed as a result of…