The Health Blog

If you try to fight the panic and give yourself messages like, ‘I am going to be sick, pass out or wet myself each time you have a panic attack, you are planting a seed in your mind that will make you react in the same way the next time. It will be the trigger for stimulating more adrenalin, more fear. If on the other hand you teach your body to give the correct messages to your brain, you can break this chain reaction. It is not suggested that it is easy to accomplish and it is not always possible to think clearly enough about what to do when you are actually in the throes of an attack. This is why it is so important to practise your response when you are relaxed and give yourself the firm command: ‘This is panic and I can control it.’
First Aid for Panic Attacks
Since the main cause of the unpleasant feeling is an imbalance of oxygen and carbon dioxide the aim is to stabilize this as quickly as possible. Let your breath out in a long sigh and then cupping your hands around your mouth. This enables you to re-breathe your own carbon dioxide (don’t hold your breath). If you are home you could place a paper – never plastic – bag around your nose and mouth. Do not blow or breathe deeply into the bag, just let the breaths come; they will slow down naturally as you get your own carbon dioxide back from the air in the bag. You can also slow the breathing down by splashing cold water on the face or by putting cold cloths or ice packs over the cheeks and nose. A packet of frozen peas wrapped in a dish towel has often been used to good effect.
If breathing is the first thought during panic the second thought should be: ‘Eat or drink something sweet as soon as possible’.
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There are several possible reasons, perhaps the most common that the child is not on a high enough dose, a second that she is not receiving enough medication or is not taking the medicine. Non-compliance is a common reason for a low blood level, particularly among adolescents. Occasionally also an individual absorbs medicine poorly and must take more to achieve the same blood level. Rarely, an individual metabolizes the drug more rapidly than average and, therefore, has a low level. Whatever the reason, increasing the dose should help to determine the answer. If the person is taking the drug erratically or not at all, then prescribing more will usually have little or no effect. If the dose prescribed is too low, a higher dose should correct the problem, as it will do if the patient absorbs poorly or metabolizes rapidly.
Your child does not necessarily need a blood level test every time he visits the doctor!
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Exercise is not just for teenagers and Yuppies. There’s an exercise for any person at any age – from birth to age ninety – and in any physical condition – from hard-body athlete to chair-bound senior.
But don’t rush out and buy a neon green leotard and a pair of 100 dollars – plus athletic shoes. Not just yet anyway, since you may not need them. What you do need is an exercise programme.
You probably know this already. And your doctor, no doubt, has told you exercise is one of the things you need to do as part of your self-treatment for your “touch of diabetes”.
•   You re not too old to start an exercise programme.
•   You re not too fat to start an exercise programme. You re not too sick to start an exercise programme.
Your problem is not that you’re mature, overweight and have Type II diabetes. It’s that you have not exercised very much in the past two decades. (You’re not alone, since most middle-agers are in the same boat.) Your problem is choosing the sort of exercise you will do and deciding when and how you will do it.
First of all, don’t think of exercise as something that will be all pain, suffering, aches, bruises and a wasted investment in clothing, exercise machines and your time and effort. Rather, think of exercise as extra physical activity that can make you feel better emotionally and physically and something that can help you fight the battle of the waistline bulge and the high blood glucose plateau.
Better yet, try to get it to the point where you don’t think of exercise at all. You do it, regularly, just the same way you brush your teeth, wash your face and put on your clothes every day. When it becomes a routine habit, you don’t have to make decisions, seek motivation and overcome your natural tendencies to resist getting out of your easy chair.
Before we get into the specifics of choices and options, consider making some minor changes in your lifestyle routine-switching to things that will require more physical effort on your part.
Although these changes don’t seem like major exercise commitments, they will add up in your exercise totals at the end of a week.
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