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• Article - 10 Chronic Diabetes Complications You Can Help Your Parent Avoid

  How helping your elderly parent keep her diabetes under control can avoid 10 serious -- even life-threatening -- complications.

• Article - Monitoring Blood Glucose: What You Should Know to Help a Parent with Diabetes

  Monitoring the blood glucose of a parent with diabetes helps identify which treatments work best. Here are the basics of blood glucose monitoring.

• Article - Managing Your Parent's Type 2 Diabetes: Coping With the 5 Toughest Challenges

  Learn about the toughest challenges seniors with type 2 diabetes face and find ways you can help your parent with diabetes overcome these obstacles.

• Article - 3 Acute Diabetes Complications You Can Help Your Parent Avoid

  Find out how to help your parent with type 2 diabetes avoid short-term complications such as low or high blood sugar (hypo- or hyperglycemia).

• Article - 2 Emergency Diabetes Complications You Can Help Your Parent Avoid

  Find out what you can do to help your parent with type 2 diabetes avoid two potentially life-threatening diabetes complications.

Questions & Answers

• Question - Should I be concerned that my mom has lumps where she injects insulin?

  Lumps under the skin from insulin injections (lipohypertrophy) may appear in someone with diabetes. Insulin like Novolog or Humalog might avoid these.

• Question - What extra precautions should my dad with diabetes take when he has the flu?

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• Question - Because of her diabetes, my mom has nerve damage to her feet -- what kind of footwear does she need to avoid problems?

  This question has been answered by a Caring.com Expert

• Question - How can I help my mother handle low blood sugar incidents?

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• Question - How can we prevent my mom, who has type 2 diabetes, from constantly getting yeast infections and cystitis?

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• Question - My parent’s blood sugar is going up and down from 275 to 43 on metformin and glipizide, what should we do?

  When blood sugar goes up and down on Metaglip, what does it mean? Diabetes patients must see their doctor when blood sugar goes up and down wildly.

• Question - How can I help my parent figure out when her blood sugar is too high?

  Blood sugar needs to be monitored often when someone has type 2 diabetes. How do you help a person with diabetes keep track of glucose levels?

Tips & Reflections

• Tip - Take Care When Choosing Over-the-Counter Drugs

  Many over-the-counter (OTC) medications, such as cough...