BellaOnline Forums Health and Fitness Alternative Medicine When is diabetes not diabetes?

Type II Diabetes is on the upswing and the distressing part of it is that children are more and more often afflicted, some as young as 8 or 9!

However, something I didn't know was that Gestational Diabetes, onset during pregnancy and then disappearance after the birth, has more serious ramifications. Many expectant women are warned to watch their weight and eat properly until the baby is born.

They are not always told that both they and their babies have a greater chance of contracting diabetes sometime in the future.

Maybe more prevention should be practiced than trying to mitigate symptoms when the worst case senario arrives.

My latest article on the various types of diabetes:

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art6265.asp

Do you have experiece with any of the various forms of diabetes?

Please add your two-bits-worth....

Monika
Altmedhost

A friend of mine had a very difficult pregnancy with sores/scrapes that wouldn't heal on her leg. She was determined to be pre-diabetic and had a very large baby, which I understand is common with diabetics.

I didn't know that those people were more likely to become diabetic in later life.

My husband is Type 2 diabetic and still insists on drinking beer...non-alcoholic, though. I keep insisting that it has just as much sugar as real beer does.

Do you know anything about this?

Onamay