Hello I am looking for any information on the complication N.L.D is There any one
with that information.

Thanks Dave.debr…@deepcove.com

I just placed a Glycemic Index page on the Diabetes Knowledgebase.
The author and contact info is contained in the file.

Best regards,
Don

–
Donald A. Lehn, Ph.D.                    Phone (work): (608) 263-7668
Medical Sciences Center / 3415                 (home): (608) 277-1025
University of Wisconsin Medical School         (fax):  (608) 263-9300
1300 University Avenue                                              
Madison, WI 53706-1532             Internet: dal…@facstaff.wisc.edu

Rei…@alhr.brooks.af.mil (Bill reilly) writes:
>Hello,

>I am looking for a speech synthesizer for a blind individual who I know.

>Does anyone have any suggestions?

>Jeff Grobman
>grob…@alhrm.brooks.af.mil

Hello Jeff: Don’t what rig your working with but, if its a new one Kenwood 940
or the 850,s have speech synthesizers at the local Ham radio outlets that only
need to be pluged in the sockets.
Chuck AH6IN Aloha…

Below are some data, and thoughts, on fenugreek, and related natural
approaches.  Might be of interest.  No, is of interest.. the word of the
day about this disease is  ! attack.. this Gordian knot can be, must be,
cleaved.   Regards.. Bill      bill.cu…@wdn.com

(Encyc Brit 1964)  FENUGREEK (Trigonella foenum-graecum), slender
annual plant, legume family, native to Mediterranean region.
Erect, loosely branched, 20-30 in. tall, trifoliate, yellow-white
flowers.  Slender 3-6 in. pods, curved and distinctly beaked.
Cultivated in Central and SE Europe, Western Asia, No Africa,
India.  Seeds used as poultice for boils, abscesses, carbuncles,
etc.  Internally as emollient for inflammation of digestive tract.
Long used as principal ingredient of "condition powders" for cattle
and horses.  As human food, mixed with flour for bread, eaten raw
or boiled, in curry powders, flavoring.  Young plants a pot herb
in India.  Hay used for animal feed in North Africa.  A small
acreage in CA, largely as a green manure crop.

(Harris, The Compleat Herbal)  FENUGREEK (Trigonella foenum-
graecum) aka Greek Hay-Seed; seeds used; "signature – the seeds
yield much mucilage." Specific use – water soak, make thick paste,
has emollient effects externally as poultice on wounds and
inflammed areas, and internally to soothe inflammed conditions of
stomach and intestines.

(Encyc Brit 1964) DIABETES MELLITUS.. "Hundreds of plant extracts
and pure chemicals have been suggested as substitutes for or
adjuvants of insulin.  A very large proportion of the few agents
that have proved effective are liver poisons that decrease the
output of sugar from this organ."
  My comment: The "few" are not listed.  The "liver poison"
experience raises a caution flag.  However, I suspect it doesn’t
apply to fenugreek because 1) a long history of food use hasn’t
raised that spectre, and 2) "effective" in conventional medical
terms means quick, something cleanly measurable.  I suspect
fenugreek, if effective, is slow and deep and solid, like
nutrition, and incidentally rich is unexpected beneficences.  I
know of one other possible useful natural remedy, blueberry leaves.
In Bricklin, "Natural Healing"  ,  blueberry leaves are
mentioned, tracing back 70 years to professional reports from New
Jersy people that an infusion had "remarkable potency to reduce
excess sugar in the blood."  However, it could not replace insulin
when insulin was needed.  Inferring a recipe from Bricklin, chew
a blueberry leaf a day (they taste pretty good), or make a cup of
tea from 5 leaves steeped for half an hour (bruise them, perhaps
even by chewing !).  Where you get blueberrry leaves, I don’t know.
New Jersey has a blueberry industry, exploiting the sandy, wet,
acidic soils.  I estimate 15 mature bushes (10 years old) would
supply 1 person continuously.  They grow slowly.  Fifteen years ago
I planted 16 bushes, wanting my wife to try the leaves.  She
hasn’t, she’s a stubborn IDD trying to deny, even as they cut off
her legs, but now I and mine can pig out on dew drenched
blueberries all summer.

I suspect the better or best nutritional handbook for "bean counting"
conventional food values is the Dept Ag Pub 8, "Handbook of Nutritive
Values of American Foods" or some such.  Is the product of 100 years of
constant data accumulation; the period from 1975 until now had a
brilliant, IMHO, expansion of breadth and depth.  It has been automated
by sharewarers.. the best I’ve seen in MYF451.ZIP.  I might have the
number wrong slightly.. but it’s MYF, "managing your food."  I’m sure it
can do a spreadsheet like development of any diet you want.. it’s
evolving toward the institutionalized use, nutritionists etc who gain
self comfort and a semblance of certainty by several significant digits
on a spreadsheet. They haven’t realized yet that’s one of the causes of
diabetes.
           Regards.. Bill      bill.cu…@wdn.com

Your husband needs to check his blood glucose (BG) level frequently. If
you have a BG meter, use it! If you need more info about BG meters,
please ask.
–
  Alan/Philadelphia EMBS…@prodigy.com

I am a type II diabetic and I have been taking glucotrol and now I have found
out I am pregnant and read that glucotrol causes birth defects. Does anybody
know what the effects of glucotrol on a fetus is or has had any experience
with glucotrol and pregnancy. I would appreciate any info you could give
Thanks, Nervous mother to be – Jodi

as i’ve had roommates for many years (and cramped
bathroom shelves) i’ve always kept my meter and assorted
paraphernalia in my bedroom. it just occurred to me
that now that i live alone my bathroom is all mine
and i can keep my meter in the bathroom – would be more
convenient. i called lifescan since i couldn’t find
anything in the manual about not keeping strips in
the bathroom. the tech rep said that people did it
but she wouldn’t recommend it. was wondering if anyone
has had strips go bad with the high humidity in the
bathroom – use first choice strips not the OTII –
though that shouldn’t matter.

udita

Sandra Potter <micro…@netcom.com> writes:
>I’d be interested in hearing from other parents if they experience
>unexplained BS numbers with their children.  That is, you give the
>same amount of food, the same "types" of food, same insulin dosage,
>about the same activity level and sometimes the BS numbers are a big
>shock.

Nathan  (4) has many times that he’s high when he should be low,
and low when he should be high.

>Some parents I’ve spoken with say this is rare for them – they can
>basically explain any BS numbers and surmise a reason for the high/
>low.  Sometimes I just can’t do that – can’t find the reason why.
>My question is also – are some children/people just harder to control
>than others?  More "brittle" (I don’t care for that term but cannot
>think of another to explain)?  

The human brain always wants to provide a cause to any effect, and
when he’s high but has no reason to be, we surmise that he must
be coming down with a cold (sickness causes your liver to
release glucose stores).  If he’s low but has been eating well,
then he must be going through a growth spurt.

>It’s disheartening to read, "If you just control…..you will be
>rewarded with good BS numbers…A1c’s, etc..  I try to factor in that
>my child is growing and alot of hormones going places (she’s 5) but
>other children are growing too, so…..

You are your child’s pancreas.  Other kids have pancreases which
can read blood sugars and adjust insulin levels continuously.
You just do the best you can.

>Also, she seems to run in cycles.  Several good days, then a couple of
>not so good days (okay bad days).  And if she wakes up high, it stands
>to good reason she’ll be high all day.

Same with Nate.  Just when we think we may have to go up on his
insulin dosage, he has a low day.  Pretty frustrating.  I think
your right about hormones being a factor.  The liver has a role
in providing glucose (energy) to the cells.  It can hold a few
days worth of glucose for your kid.  I think it provides for a
few days, then absorbs for a day or so.  Assuming it did this
(I’m not a liver physiologist) it would make blood sugars
run high for a few days, then low.

Brandon
—
Brandon S. Dewberry
NASA/MSFC/EB43              Vanderbilt University Biomedical Engineering
brandon.dewbe…@msfc.nasa.gov     bran…@vuse.vanderbilt.edu

"If you can’t explain something to a six-year-old, you really
don’t understand it yourself"      Albert Einstein

SOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFO ON AN ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS.  I THOUGHT I
SAW ON THE BULLETIN BOARD WHERE SOMEONE HAD GONE FROM A PUMP
TO AN ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS.  MY DAUGHTER’S DR. TOLD HER IT WOULD BE
1 TO 5 YEARS BEFORE THEY ARE AVAILABE.
THANKS
SANDRA