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Traveling with diabetes can feel like a juggling act. Between managing blood sugar, insulin needs, and the occasional health hiccup, preparation is key to ensuring a smooth trip. Without the right supplies, a dream vacation can quickly turn into a stressful situation. Here are the three essential items that anyone...

Why Foot Care Can't Be Ignored For Diabetics When managing diabetes, much of the focus is naturally placed on controlling blood sugar levels, adopting a balanced diet, and maintaining regular physical activity. However, there’s one crucial aspect of diabetes care that is often overlooked—foot care. Diabetes significantly increases the risk...

Don’t Let Diabetes Hold Back Your Healing With the right care and tools like the Lavior Diabetic Wound Gel, individuals with diabetes can heal as quickly as anyone else. Diabetes doesn’t have to slow you down! Living with diabetes often feels like a balancing act, juggling blood sugar management, diet,...

If you use an insulin pump or give yourself regular injections, the frustration of tissue buildup at insertion sites is all too familiar. While the pump helps manage blood sugar, the repeated needle insertions can lead to discomfort and affect insulin absorption. Over time, this scar tissue buildup can make it...

Author: Ben Tzeel   Essential Foot Care for People with Diabetes Blisters are a common inconvenience, especially for those who lead active lifestyles, but for people managing diabetes, they can pose more serious risks. Take, for example, during a pickleball game. One individual quickly changed directions during a game point,...

Plant-Based Remedies For Common Skin Conditions  Plant-based remedies have gained popularity in treating skin conditions in the last couple of years. The major reason behind their popularity is that they never cause any side effects or dangerous and disappointing results. Let’s take a look at some of the most common...

How to Avoid Diabetic Wounds According to the World Health Organization, 8.5% of the world’s adult population is diabetic and the prevalence is rising. Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disorder of the metabolism of carbohydrates, fat, and protein that is characterized by elevated blood sugar (hyperglycemia) due to a lack...

12 Common Summertime Skin Rashes in Children Summertime is a fun time, playtime, splash time, a time when children are more active, spend more time outside, interact more with the natural environment, and enjoy and strengthen their bodies. Unfortunately, this increased interaction with the environment also puts them at higher risk of specific skin conditions. Here...

Diabetes & Hydration Polyuria (increased urine output) and polydipsia (increased thirst) characterize diabetes; these are classic symptoms of diabetes. They often indicate how well or unwell diabetes is controlled. Polyuria, polydipsia along with severe dehydration are often the initial symptoms of diabetes. So the question arises why the body starts to lose more fluids in diabetes. And...

Diabetes and The Challenge of Biofilm Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by increased blood glucose levels. It is a pandemic and is rising. Diabetes is the underlying cause of numerous diseases. Many people are diagnosed with diabetes due to chronic non-healing wounds. Treating such wounds and ulcers has long...

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Diabetic Wounds Diabetes affects many things in the life of the individual suffering from it, but one of its most common complications is diabetic wounds and pressure sores. This is one reason why diabetics need to be extra careful. The feet in particular are...

3 Things You Didn’t Know About Aloe Vera You’ve probably heard of Aloe Vera at one time or another. After all, it’s a pretty magical plant that can be used for a number of reasons. You can find it in things like toothpaste, sun lotion, tea, and more. Egyptians even...

Diabetes and Wound Healing: Why Is It Slower, and How Can We Promote The Healing? In diabetes, wound healing may be several times slower than in healthy adults. The rate of recovery would highly depend on the severity of diabetes. Diabetes is not just about high blood glucose; it is...

Why Do People With Diabetes Suffer From Dry and Cracked Skin? People living with diabetes are more prone to dry and cracked skin. However, neglecting dry skin is not an option in diabetes due to the much higher risk of complications. Moreover, dry skin could be an early sign of...

Why Do People With Diabetes Suffer From Itchy Skin? People living with diabetes are at least four to five times at a greater risk of developing itchy skin or pruritus. 1 In diabetes, itchy skin can be due to several causes, including changes in the nerves or skin, the presence of other...

Why Timely Management Of Minor Cuts, Burns, and Scrapes Is So Vital in Diabetes? Most healthy adults may not pay much attention to minor cuts, burns, and scrapes, as they would generally cause little discomfort and ultimately heal without any consequences. However, for those living with diabetes, things may turn...

How To Prevent And Heal A Diabetic Wound? People living with diabetes cannot produce or utilize insulin adequately. This causes a rise in blood glucose levels. Insulin is not just a hormone for controlling blood sugar levels. It is a potent anabolic hormone. Thus, insulin deficiency or resistance slows down...

Fighting The Battle Of Diabetic Wounds (And Winning!) Diabetes is a serious life-long health condition that occurs when the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood is too high because the body can’t use it properly. For those who suffer from diabetes and for countless others who are plagued by the...

Diabetes and Prevention Diabetes is a heterogeneous chronic metabolic disorder that is characterized by elevated blood sugar levels, along with metabolic disturbances of all fuel providing compounds. All this happens either due to insulin resistance or deficit.  Disturbances of fat and protein metabolism in diabetes are as frequent as disturbances of glucose metabolism....

Unlocking the Healing Power of Lavior at SAWC Fall 2023 Lavior has been invited to present and share some very important clinical outcomes highlighting the healing capabilities of Lavior’s natural diabetic wound care treatments at the 2023 Symposium on Advanced Wound Care Fall meeting (SAWC Fall) in Las Vegas from November 2-5th. ...