Friday, December 14, 2007

A Simple Way to Explain What is Diabetes

I stumbled upon this explanation of diabetes management on Scott Hanselman's blog where he uses the airplane analogy. I thought it would be pretty helpful for people trying to understand the delicate balance of testing, eating, retesting, dosing insulin and testing again.

Scott has type 1 diabetes and is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, so it's understandable that he'd come up with a way to explain it quite thoroughly.

If you still don't get it, maybe this image I whipped up might help...

Diabetes Insulin Dosing Plane Analogywhat happens when taking too much insulin after a big meal
(source: dLife.com)

2 comments:

Scott K. Johnson said...

I've always thought Scott's airplane analogy was probably the best analogy for what diabetes is all about.

He rocks!

tinea corporis said...

Hello the diabetes is a serious problem some people don't know what is this problem is a high level of sugar in the blood so for all the people to understand is like that thank you .