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World Kidney Day 2014 – Get some great tips for Kidney Health -like and share to show your support


World Kidney Day

World Kidney Day

Today is World Kidney Day 2014.

World Kidney Day UK has produce an excellent poster which you might consider downloading from their website here – http://www.worldkidneyday.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/WKD-2014-Flyer-A3.pdf

To keep your kidneys in tip top shape they recommend:-

a)  Cutting out as much salt as you can from your diet

b) Regular exercise

c)  A great diet with at least five portions of fruit and vegetables each day

d)  Quit smoking.  Yesterday was No Smoking Day (https://patienttalk.org/no-smoking-day-2014-like-and-share-to-show-your-support/)  But really everyday should be!

e)  Get regular check ups from your Doctor as to how your kidney is doing especially is you have diabetes.

For more info check out the web site http://www.worldkidneyday.co.uk/

 


 

 

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Injections – do you ever have to self-inject (or have a caregiver help) because of your medical condition? Can you help an old friend with some advice.

Injections

Injections

A couple of weeks ago I was having a chat with an old friend who was diagnosed with diabetes around seven years ago.

Lawrence mentioned that his Diabetes Specialist Nurse had warned him that he was a very likely candidate to move on to insulin injections within the next couple of months.  Apart from the obvious concern as to his diabetes he was also worried about injections.

Why?

Well like a lot of us, me included, Lawrence hates injections.  So I said that I would run a blog post for him to get advice from our readers to to how they deal with having regular injections as part of their medical condition.  Of course it is not just diabetic who have injections – people with multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia all come to mind.

So how can you help?  Well firstly it would be great if you could take take the poll on the subject we have set up below.  Even better it would be great if you could use the comments box below to share your story of using injections and any tips you may have for lawrence to get used to them.

Many thanks in advance.


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Would you consider (or have) a service dog to help you you or your loved ones medical condition? Take our poll

Service dogs

Service dogs

When I was growing up in the 70s there was only really one kind of service dog in the UK.  These were guide dogs for the blind or as they are called in America and other places “seeing eye dogs”.

Since then animals are used in a number of different areas to provide help and support for humans with such conditions as diabetes, multiple sclerosis and autism.

So we are very interested in finding out who has or does not have a service dog.  It would be great if you could share your views in our poll below.

Do feel free to use the comment boxes to share your stories about using services box.  Please feel free to post any photos as well!

Thanks in advance



 

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Optic Neuritis – what treatments have you received for optic neuritis? Take our poll

Optic Neuritis

Optic Neuritis

For many of us optic neuritis is one of the first symptoms that present for multiple sclerosis.  You may be interested in a previous blog we ran where many of our readers told their optic neuritis story.  You can read them here https://patienttalk.org/?p=312.

That being said their are a number of other conditions which can also lead to optic neuritis.  These include syphilis, Lyme disease, herpes zoster, lupus, neurosarcoidosis, inflammatory bowel disease, vasculitis, and diabetes.

Today we would like to explore in more detail the treatments people have received for optic neuritis.

It would be great if you could take our poll below to share your experiences.

Feel free to use the comments box below to add anything you think may be of interest to our readers.

Thanks in advance



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Join the Fight against Diabetes this Christmas The PatientTalk.Org Advent Calendar Day Twelve– please like and share


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