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Diabetes & itchy skin ?

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gillyflower

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Hello Again

Does anyone suffer from itchy skin? I get periods where I want to rip my skin off - just to stop itching. Result lots of little scabs on my arms and lower legs. Another member mentioned that they had the same problem - but were not sure if it was a medication reaction. Checked out diabetes and itching and found this link

http://www.diabeteswellbeing.com/diabet ... -skin.html

Seems it could be a yeast infection - which makes sense to me considering the high levels of sugar in my blood.

Anyone else got the same problem :?:
Gillyflower
 
Hi Gill - I have answered your question on the "Another Newbie" thread - before I saw your post here. We were writing simultaneously :lol: I hope what I said helps.
 
daisy1 said:
Hi Gill - I have answered your question on the "Another Newbie" thread - before I saw your post here. We were writing simultaneously :lol: I hope what I said helps.
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Hi Daisy
:D Thanks for posting so fast. On both threads! Thought I'd answer here. My BP meds also say skin problems as a possible side effect, But when I googled diabetes and itchy skin - there was a lot of stuff suggesting it could be a yeast infection - which diabetics are prone to. I guess when our sugar levels go high we start to ferment :lol:
Gill
 
Does our blood become alcohol then? :lol: I've heard the expression "too much blood in his alcohol stream" so maybe there's some truth in it.
 
daisy1 said:
Does our blood become alcohol then? :lol: I've heard the expression "too much blood in his alcohol stream" so maybe there's some truth in it.
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Hi Again Daisy :)
When you think that alcohol is mostly fermented sugar and the yeast and sugar do the fermenting - it definately is work checking out candida -

Yeast infections could account for a lot of side effects - like the urinary infections I keep reading about on this forum and the itchy skin - going to read up on Candida and look at natural methods of treating it

Thank you for keeping in touch -
Gill
 
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