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    What do you do during isolation?

    [snip] My family got a few cats, and never saw any rats or mice near the house again.
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    Flu vaccination

    Here in the US, the pneumonia jab is every 5 years,
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    COVID 2019 Comorbidity with Diabetes

    I've read that lying chest down in bed instead of the usual chest up often helps those with lung problems, due to a different part of the lungs being used the most. Also, I'd expect paint stores to be a possible place to get masks. If you decide that cloth masks are adequate, rather than the...
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    Confused, Why my diabetes team won't take me off of insulin

    [snip] It could even be type 1 and type 2 and once. This combination is often called type 1.5.
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    DIY face masks & info on wearing masks effectively...

    At least here in the US, some masks are available with transparent panels in front of the mouth. Would that be adequate for you?
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    Type 1 Shielding for diabetics

    Some people are hopeful that a vaccine will be available by the end of the year. A few vaccines are already in testing, but not available otherwise yet. Once one passes testing, it is expected to take months to produce enough for wide availability.
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    Newly diagnosed type 1

    I've had swelling of my lower legs, but it appears to be due to using too strong a medicine for reducing my blood pressure - enough to nearly shut my kidneys down and let the water accumulate. It also made me fall down rather frequently, without getting dizzy first. Changing to a different...
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    COVID-19: are you wearing a mask?

    Here in the US, there aren't enough of the "proper" ones, so those are supposed to be reserved for health care workers.
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    Is Type 2 Coronavirus low risk

    Probably from someone who considers profits more important than people. In other words, that advice means that having you come to work with type 2 is low risk to the company's profits, and any risk to your health is unimportant.
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    What do you do during isolation?

    I'm overdue for a haircut also.
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    What do you do during isolation?

    'It's not fancy, but it works': Mississippi doctor uses garden hose, lamp timer and electronic valve to create makeshift ventilators https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/not-fancy-works-mississippi-doctor-012120379.html Plasma treatment being tested in New York may be coronavirus 'game...
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    What do you do during isolation?

    I'm spending time looking for online articles that might help one of my nieces, who is a nurse. So far: As Hospitals Run out of Medical Masks, Healthcare Workers are Asking for Homemade Alternatives https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/hospitals-run-medical-masks-healthcare-145200226.html...
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    Type 3c - how many are we?

    I used to have a neighbor who was taking Creon, a medicine to replace the pancreatic output into the small intestine. Google found this for me: https://www.creon.com/
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    And so it begins: Eat less meat or we’ll make you.

    I've seen an article saying that adding a small percentage of a certain type of seaweed to the diets of cattle greatly reduces the amount of greenhouse gases they produce. It looks like time for research into whether the same type of seaweed or some other type has a similar effect on other...
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    And so it begins: Eat less meat or we’ll make you.

    In the US, a vegan substitute for ground beef is already being sold, with a vegan source of heme used to make it taste like beef, and protein from vegetable sources. It's around twice the cost of the meat it replaces, though, so I'm not going to try it soon. No word on how much carbon dioxide...
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    Very low blood sugar but still OK

    Note that the liver can convert proteins into glucose more than fast enough to supply the portions of your brain that cannot survive on ketones. I have not heard of any portions of the brain that can use proteins as their source of energy more directly.
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    Reducing our carbon footprint BY dairy farming...

    [snip] Recycled HOW FAST? Methane stays in the air several decades before it is absorbed, and during that time, it contributes more to global warming than an equal weight of carbon dioxide does.
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    Full reversal?

    Anything referring to complex carbs is usually from someone still using the obsolete idea that starches can only be digested by removing simple sugar units from the ends of the starch chains. More recent research shows that most of the digestive enzymes can break the chains at any point, and...
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    At what HbA1c level will medication be suggested?

    One thing about cholesterol - too many carbohydrates in your diet will make your liver start turning those carbohydrates into a mixture of cholesterol and saturated fats.
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    Low carb and on insulin

    [snip] One thing that helped me with fluid gathered in my lower body - putting enough pillows at the foot of my bed that my feet were higher than my heart while I slept.