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Medical ReferenceRelated to Diabetes

111. 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Diabetes Complications
     
     WebMD provides you with 10 essential questions to ask your doctor about diabetes complications.
     
112. Could I Get Gestational Diabetes?
     
     WebMD explains the tests used to diagnose gestational diabetes.
     
113. How Does Type 2 Diabetes Affect Children?
     
     WebMD gives you the basics on type 2 diabetes in children, including prevention strategies and special concerns with teens.
     
114. 6 Strategies to Control Diabetes
     
     You've just been diagnosed with diabetes. Now what? Learn more about managing the disease so that you can live a long, healthy life.
     
115. Diabetes and Your Skin
     
     Skin problems are common among people with diabetes. Learn the causes, symptoms, and treatments of various skin conditions that can arise if blood sugars are not under control.
     
116. Foot Care for Diabetes
     
     Foot care tips for people with diabetes.
     
117. Diabetes: A Skin-Care How-To
     
     Skin problems are common in people with diabetes, and WebMD gives you pointers for protecting yourself.
     
118. How Weight Loss Surgery Helps Type 2 Diabetes
     
     Here's information you can use to talk with your doctor about how weight loss surgery -- like gastric bypass and gastric banding -- can help people manage type 2 diabetes.
     
119. Diabetic Neuropathy - Topic Overview
     
     What is prediabetes?Prediabetes is also referred to as impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose. It is a warning sign that you are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes. Most people who develop type 2 diabetes have prediabetes first. Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong disease in which the body does not make enough of the hormone insulin or does not respond to it properly. Over time, ...
     
120. Diabetic Neuropathy - Topic Overview
     
     Because you have diabetes,you need to wash your feet carefully each day. Post this list of proper foot-washing steps in your bathroom. Wash and dry your feet Use warm (not hot) water. Check the water temperature with your wrists,not your feet. You can soak your feet for about 10 minutes if you want to. Wash all areas of your feet,especially the underside of your toes and between them. ...