Most of the conditions around diabetes are caused by blood sugar, which is acidic. It’s why cuts have a harder time healing in a diabetic patient than not.
Going for a half-hour walk every day, if you have a good diet, is often a good way to get the excess blood sugar to be metabolized in the muscles.
Not new. Medicine has known about this for a long time.
Diabetes can affect your mouth by changing your saliva—the fluid that keeps your mouth wet. Saliva helps prevent tooth decay by washing away pieces of food, preventing bacteria from growing, and fighting the acids produced by bacteria. Saliva also has minerals that help protect tissues in your mouth and fight tooth decay.
Diabetes and some medicines used to treat diabetes can cause the salivary glands in your mouth to make less saliva. When less saliva flows, the risk for dental cavities, gum disease, and other mouth problems increases.
Diabetes can also increase the amount of glucose in your saliva. Diabetes occurs when your blood glucose level, also called blood sugar, is too high. High levels of glucose in your blood can also cause glucose to build up in your saliva. This glucose can feed harmful bacteria that combine with food to form a soft, sticky film called plaque, which causes cavities. If you don’t remove plaque, it can also build up on your teeth near your gum line and harden into a deposit called tartar, which can cause gum disease.
Untreated, these mouth problems can lead to tooth loss. Almost 25% of U.S. adults with diabetes ages 50 and older have severe tooth loss, compared with about 16% of those without diabetes.
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There are two prescribed medications when combined cause diabetes. Medical community would rather treat the resultant diabetes than find a different treatment. Could this be similar?
Crappy food that you repeatedly eat to give you diabetes is pretty bad for your teeth too.
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Worst thing alive for teeth is a cpap machine
The dryness