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Why do some people with diabetes have bad breath?
All sorts of things can cause your breath to smell bad, even if you don’t have diabetes. Certain foods have a very strong smell that lingers on your breath for hours after you finish eating. Garlic, onions, and smoked fish are examples.
What treatments are available for gastroparesis?
There is a drug called metoclopramide (Reglan) that you can take as a pill about thirty minutes before your main meals. It stimulates the muscles lining your stomach walls to contract more vigorously and opens the muscle at the lower end so that food leaves your stomach and gets passed into your small intestines more easily.
How would I know if I had gastroparesis?
When your stomach muscles get flabby and weak, it can cause some unpleasant symptoms. You may feel bloated, even after small meals. You might even be able to feel and hear that there is food sloshing around down there. It can cause you to belch up unpleasant smelling gas and be embarrassing socially.
What is gastroparesis?
This medical term means “sluggish stomach” or maybe “flabby, weak muscled stomach.” To understand why that can happen, let me explain a bit about how your stomach works. The stomach is like a stretchy bag with openings at both ends. There are muscles woven into the walls of the bag and other muscles wrapped tightly around each end of the bag to keep it closed.
What drugs can lower your cholesterol?
There are several different types (or classes) of drugs that help lower cholesterol. The most important, by far, are the statins.
Can you lower your cholesterol with lifestyle changes?
Improving your diet (by eating less fat overall, especially less animal fat, and increasing the amount of high fiber carbohydrate) can certainly lower your cholesterol level to some extent.
What is a normal cholesterol level?
The answer to this question keeps changing. An international group of experts meets every few years to re-examine the scientific evidence and come up with recommended levels for different people.
Where does cholesterol come from?
You can eat cholesterol in your diet. There is a lot of cholesterol in egg yolks and animal fat, for example, so eating a diet high in animal
fat can increase your cholesterol level.
Why is cholesterol bad for you?
There is so much talk on television and other media about drugs to lower cholesterol these days that you might imagine cholesterol is poisonous and that any amount of it in your body or in your blood is bad for you.
What is the easiest way to quit smoking?
There are no easy ways, but there are a lot of myths and excuses that you should avoid. If you think, “There is no point in trying again;