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DIABETES: WHAT INFORMATION DO YOU NEED?
To take command of your diabetes you need to know what is happening in your body. To do this, you need to know what resources are available to help you to gather this information and to use it to manage your diabetes.The effects of diabetes upon the body can be divided into biochemical and physical factors. The lack of insulin or its failure to act properly at the surface of the body’s cells leads to many changes in body chemistry. The most obvious, and in practical terms the most important, is an accumulation of glucose in the blood stream because it cannot enter the cells. High blood glucose levels may cause immediate symptoms (for example, thirst and passing urine frequently). In combination with other as yet unidentified factors, they may cause long-term physical damage to body tissues. You therefore need to know:1. What your blood glucose level is2. What effect (if any) the diabetes is having on your body over the years.
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WHAT IS IT LIKE TO HAVE AN EPILEPTIC SEIZURE: STATUS EPILEPTICUS
Status epilepticus is a prolonged seizure or continuous series of seizures. It is a medical emergency. Not everybody who has epilepsy will suffer from status epilepticus. It usually occurs in people who have frontal lobe epilepsy. It is rare for such seizures to arise from other parts of the brain, but because it is so dangerous anyone who has close contact with someone who has epilepsy must be able to recognize it and know what to do.
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Normally when someone has a seizure, the brain responds by becoming less excitable for a while, so that another seizure is less likely. However seizures sometimes occur one after the other with only a small gap between them. Like status epilepticus these so-called ‘serial seizures’ may also require urgent medical help, but if the person having the seizures has time to recover between them, the situation does not have quite the degree of urgency of someone who is in status epilepticus.
If, on the other hand, the seizures follow hard on one another, occurring so often that the person has no time to recover from one before the next one begins, then it is important to get help as quickly as possible. In true status epilepticus the seizures become continuous, so there is no gap between them and the person remains unconscious, convulsing all the while. They may be unable to breathe properly, and the lack of oxygen may lead to brain damage. It is essential to seek help immediately.
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