Poor Digestion and Constipation Problem

by Hemant
(Bangalore)

QUESTION: Dear Dr,

I am 52 years male and diabetic from past 20 years. I am on insulin taking 2 times a day. Along with insulin, I am taking allopathic and ayurvedic medicines also.

My fasting blood sugar varies from 120 - 150 and never been able to maintain even with active lifestyle.

Recently, I am suffering from poor digestion, constipation and other stomach related problems. I am a vegetarian and strictly follow diet foods.

Request you to suggest me to eliminate my digestion problem.

Thanks and regards,

Hemant


ANSWER: Hi Hemant,

Sorry for the late reply.

With regards to your fasting blood sugar, I should ask you to consult with your doctor to set your "own" goals.

In other words, researchers have found that different patients have to set different goals for their blood glucose.

Consequently, they are going to organize their lifestyle, diet and medicinal therapy to achieve these goal.

In some cases, patients have "normally high" blood sugar, as in your case I think. Therefore, it is crucial to know if this is your case and maintain such results.

With regards to your constipation and digestion problems, I would like to have more of your medical data such as following:

- Are you following a strict vegetarian diet?

- How long have you been following such diet and for how long are your experiencing such problems?

- Is there any specific spice or foods or allopathic medicine that makes your stomach upset? I would advise to keep an eye to identify which is causing you such problems.

- I would also advise to make a laboratory analysis of your feces for parasites, candidiasis and culture of feces to identify if such problems are related to your concerns.

- Have you ever checked your stomach (fibro gastroscopy) for gastritis or ulcer? If not, consult with your doctor if this is the right time to check.

As you may see, I cannot give you a full answer as I do lack much of your medical data.

If you pass to me such data, I can give a better judgment.

All the best.

Dr.Alba

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Diabetic Fatty Liver Problems

by Dawn

QUESTION: Hi,

I am type 2 diabetic, 43 yrs old and I have been doing diet exercise as well as working with a herbalist to try and control my diabetes.

Although at the moment I am overweight, but have lost 2 stone ,,, I had my blood test results the other day ,, which my blood sugar was down to 6.4,,, my total cholesterol is down to 3.5,,,

but my liver reading had flagged up and I was told not to worry as it was 40, and some people are 100 ,, but i don't know what that means,and as im not a drinker, the GP said it might just be fatty liver,

Can you give me any advice please? thanks

Dawn

ANSWER: Hi Dawn,

It is true that the majority of diabetics, especially those overweight or obese face many problems including liver.

Non alcoholic liver disease is often associated with diabetes. It is estimated that if you have fatty liver, that would be a great risk factor leading to type 2 diabetes.

Therefore, I need to know if you had fatty liver diagnosed before diabetes or at the same time?

Most probably, you had fatty liver before diabetes onset. And that has increased the chances of developing type 2 diabetes.

Keep in mind that fatty liver is also caused by alcohol drinking. However, as your GP mentioned, this is not your case.

No real cause has been shown "guilty" for fatty liver development although many factors are great contributors, including medications, unbalanced diets, being overweight, etc.

Now, fatty liver is a chronic condition, which needs time to appear and disappear following the right steps.

Although patients are recommended not to panic, fatty liver might lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer in severe but rare cases.

What can you do to help your diabetic fatty liver?

All the steps you are following to control your diabetes can also help your fatty liver being reversed (gaining the normal function).

So, the healthy lifestyle and diet you are following together with the right medication regime prescribed from your doctor, will greatly help your fatty liver too.

Try not to take medications other than those prescribed from your GP. Otherwise, you will aggravate your liver condition.

Remember to always consult your GP for specific advice!

All the best!

Dr.Alba

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Diabetic colon cancer
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There is a increased interest recently regarding diabetes colon cancer. A recent meta-analysis (published at Gastroenterology) have shown that men are more predisposed than women in having colon cancer.

However, in another study it has been shown that older women have more probabilities to develop colon cancer.

Nevertheless, the question raised is: Why? Why diabetics have more chances to develop colon cancer? The answer is not ready yet; however, many factors are questioned:

1- insulin and insulin-like hormone, which induce "cancer" cells to multiply.

2- sugary foods intake. Women who used to eat high glycemic index foods showed higher chances to develop colon cancer in comparison to those who eat foods low in glycemic index.

This might be because sugary foods increase blood sugar rapidly, while insulin is not working properly.


Therefore, that will be a high blood sugar and insulin levels, which as mentioned above contribute to colon cancer.

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Once again, there is no exact theory to explain why colon cancer has more chances to develop in diabetics.

3- Diabetes drugs. Due to their side effects, diabetes drugs increase chances of colon cancer.

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- older than 50 years old
- have chronic diabetes (for many years)
- taking diabetes drugs

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and Be in close contact with your doctor. Take good care of yourself.

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