Diabetes is a lifelong condition, and one that requires you to continually keep your blood sugar levels within a range that your doctor recommends. Understandably, this can prove challenging, as many factors affect your blood sugar levels, and oftentimes unexpectedly. Because blood sugar levels are prone to constant fluctuation, it is crucial that you make diabetes management less of a treatment approach and more of a lifestyle. Doing so may prove difficult, but by following these four steps, you can get control of your diabetes, your health and your life:
If your doctor diagnoses you with high blood pressure, he or she will typically recommend one of two courses of treatment. The first is lifestyle changes. The second is lifestyle changes combined with medications. Blood pressure medications are typically necessary for individuals with more severe cases of high blood pressure or for whom lifestyle changes did not work.
Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that is caused by the germ, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It typically affects the lungs, but it can also wreak havoc on other parts of the body, including the kidneys, spine and even the brain.
TB is spread from person to person in much the same way that just about any illness is transmitted — through nuclei-containing droplets that float through the air after an infected person coughs or sneezes.
HIV and AIDS, though often thought of synonymously, are not the same. HIV is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system. AIDS occurs when the immune defence has become completely compromised to the point where the body cannot defend itself against potentially life-threatening infections. Though HIV does not always advance to AIDS, it will if left untreated.
Malaria is a severe, oftentimes fatal disease that is caused by a parasite but transmitted by mosquitoes. It affects nearly 300 million individuals each year and kills approximately 400,000. To reduce your risk of contracting the virus, and to do your part to minimize the spread, it is important to learn everything you can about the malaria. Below are the top 10 need to know facts about malaria.
