Recommendations For Better Diabetes Control - Lifescan SureStep Owner's Booklet

Recommendations for Better
Diabetes Control
Follow the advice of your health-
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care professional.
Follow the exercise and meal plans
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recommended by your healthcare
professional.
Take insulin or diabetes medication
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at your scheduled times.
Keep in touch with your emotional
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and physical condition. Stress or
illness can affect diabetes.
Watch for symptoms of hypo-
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glycemia (low blood glucose)
and hyperglycemia (high blood
glucose).
Review your logbook of test
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results with your healthcare
professional regularly.
References
1. American Diabetes Association position
statement on the Diabetes Control and
Complications Trial (1993).
2. Clarke, W.L., et al.: Diabetes Care, Vol. 10,
No. 5 (1987), 622–628.
3. Surwit, R.S., and Feinglos, M.N.: Diabetes
Forecast (1988), April, 49–51.
4. Sacks, D.B.: "Carbohydrates." Burtis, C.A., and
Ashwood, E.R. (ed.), Tietz Textbook of Clinical
Chemistry. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders
Company (1994), 959.
5. Krall, L.P., and Beaser, R.S.: Joslin Diabetes
Manual. Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger
(1989), 138.
6. LifeScan data on file.
7. Wickham, N.W.R., et al.: Practical Diabetes,
Vol. 3, No. 2 (1986), 100.
8. Cohen, F.E., et al.: Diabetes Care, Vol. 9, No. 3
(1986), 320–322.
9. Atkin, S.H., et al.: "Fingerstick glucose
determination in shock." Annals of Internal
Medicine, Vol. 114 (1991), 1020–1024.
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