Type 2 diabetes

Once diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, it is wise to stop taking your feet for granted. Previously you knew your feet would always recover with a bit of rest. However with diabetes, changes to your feet may put them at permanent risk, especially for ulceration.

Foot ulcers are a common complication of Type 2 diabetes. The US National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases estimates that 1 in 6 Type 2 diabetics will eventually develop foot ulcers, and about 1 in 100 will eventually have to have an amputation.
Early warning signs of future development of foot ulceration include:

• bunions
• claw toes, hammer toes, and mallet toes
• feet that easily get cold
• gradual widening and flattening of your feet due to aging

Spots of brown pigmentation on the lower legs that look like large, rusty freckles are also an indication of poor circulation to your feet. A foot ulcer occurs when your skin breaks and poor blood supply to your feet does not bring enough white blood cells that fight infection. Even a tiny, invisible nick in your skin can become a portal to infection. That's why it is important for all Type 2 diabetics to keep the skin of their feet well moisturized, (not moist, but moisturized with skin creams), at all time. Emu oil is often recommended for this purpose, but shea butter and plant oils with aloe actually are superior. Just don't use a scented skin cream on diabetic feet, since perfumes, fragrances, and essential oils dry out your skin in ways that can form cracks and crevices that become infected.

Always check the fitting of your shoes very carefully. Ill fitting shoes can damage your feet... look for these qualities in any shoes you buy:

• firm heels that support your foot
• plenty of room for your toes
• removable insoles to give your feet extra room if they swell
• rocker soles, designed to ease pressure on the ball of your foot

One useful piece of advice is to "wear in" new shoes for short periods of time and check your feet afterwards to see if the shoe has rubbed or pinched your feet.Equally important to preventing diabetic foot ulcers is daily inspection of your feet. Noticing any changes, especially on the tips of your toes, can help you get timely medical attention. If you can't inspect your own feet, ask your wife, husband or partner to do this for you.
Treating foot ulcers: If you do develop a foot ulcer, don't waste time in starting treatment... see a podiatrist and have him examine your feet to assess the depth of the ulcer. You may require an X-ray of your feet to rule out any bone involvement. A swab may also be taken to help identify the bacterium present and the anti-biotic required.
As well as caring for your feet, to minimize the risk of foot problems, good control of both your blood sugar levels and blood pressure will help keep these risks under control.

Would you like more information about alternative ways to handle your type 2 diabetes?
To download your free copy of my E-Book, click here now: Answers to Your Questions its based on questions many diabetics have asked me over recent months.

Breast Cancer Symptoms in Men

Symptoms

There is a common misconception that men cannot have breast cancer. Men often ignore the symptoms of cancer or mistake them for other illnesses. Factors such as social stigma and embarrassment contribute to the increasing denial among men of the possibility of getting cancer of the breast The development of male cancer ( of the breast) is largely similar to what women encounter. Males around the ages of sixty and seventy are more prone to the incidence of this

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HUMAN BONES

Weights and walking for stronger bones

As people age, their bones brittle and lose calcium. This condition, called osteoporosis, affects the majority of the world’s population over 70 years of age.  And no matter how much calcium and vitamin D supplements people take, without activities that exert weight on the bones, it will prove useless.  We learned this when astronauts experienced weightlessness in space.  Without gravity to put weight on their bones, they underwent much more rapid bone loss than they would have on earth.  This doesn’t mean you have to become a weight lifter.  Moderate weight-bearing exercises such as walking are sufficient to helping restore calcium to the bones.

Don't Be the Next Breast Cancer Victim

When speaking of major illnesses that mainly infect women, breast cancer would definitely be ranked on top. In spite of numerous researches made concerning the origin of the illness, there are still no accurate answers achieved. All we know is that it can leave a woman terminally ill that would soon lead to her death. But it does not mean that it only affects women, men can also become possible victims of the condition but on a minimal level.

Since there are still no known causes of breast cancer, everyone is at risk of getting infected and must be prepared. One way to secure ourselves against it, especially for women since they are the ones greatly affected, is to gain significant knowledge about the condition. Early signs of the cancer can be determined by performing basic routines that can even be taught informally. Thus it is very important for one to be replete with enough ideas about breast cancer.

Today, there are several thousands of organizations whose main purpose is to provide assistance to everyone who may not be knowledgeable with breast cancer. Most of these organizations are based locally, but have international affiliations with other groups. Joining these groups is one good way of acquiring information about the condition and how one can help determine if a woman has already the early signs of the illness and need to be addressed with medical assistance.

If symptoms of breast cancer start to show, concerned individuals must immediately seek medical assistance. Further diagnostics should immediately commence in order to administer appropriate measures and stop the tumor cells from growing the moment they have yet to form. Being responsible individuals can help save lives that can also be your own.

Up date on plane crash

It is believe that former governor and former minister of Power’s Olusegun Aguagu family was on the plane with the dead body of the former governor. The family was flying the body home for burial. It is believed that the plane that crashed was a chartered-private jet.


According to sources there have been 20 casualties but it has not been confirmed. According to a witness, the crash occurred at the local wing of the airport close to the section were JET-A1, plane fuel, is stored. Fire service officials were seen evacuating the occupants of the plane. The spokesman of the Nigeria aviation agencies, Yakubu Datti, asked for more time to get details of the incident, Premium Times reports.

Plane carrying late Agagu's corpse & 20 passengers...

Sorry people, got back to Nigeria this morning and I'm knackered (will get back to regular blogging in a bit). So to the news, just heard, and I'm going get you details later, that a chartered Associated Airline plane carrying the corpse of late former Ondo State governor Olusegun Agagu, his family members and friends of the family, crash-landed near the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, shortly after take off this morning. The plane was enroute Akure from Lagos where the late politician was to be buried tomorrow.