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The curious relation between pregnancy, diabetes and your eyes

During pregnancy, there’s a lot happening inside a woman’s body and diabetes interferes with the way the body regulates itself. If not managed or treated, gestational diabetes can harm both mother and child during pregnancy and after.

6 Myths About Diabetes And Your Sight

Say the word “diabetes” and the conversation usually turns to things like diet, tales of visits to the diabetologist and the blood sugar monitoring devices.

Diabetes related vision problems could seriously hamper your family's quality of life

More than half of the people with diabetes in India are undiagnosed. More than 1/3rd are estimated to have some form of Diabetic Retinopathy.

Caregivers beware! Symptoms you must watch out for in patients with diabetes.

As potential caregivers, one disease we must all be fluent in, is diabetes. Diabetes and it's related complications result in millions of deaths each year.

Eye complications that you should know about, if you live with diabetes.

Diabetes creates complications in the eyes that are easily detected, and easily treated when caught early.

Are you a Diabetes Patient? Pay attention to your vision.

Get yourself and your loved ones tested for Diabetes, and institute the annual eye exam in your family calendar.

Protect your eyes against diabetes

Diabetic Retinopathy is a common disorder related to diabetes where the blood vessels that supply the eye (particularly the retina) get blocked, or leak, or burst.

How to prevent vision loss if you are a diabetes patient

Diabetes doesn’t just cause fatigue and irritability. It can cause real damage to your body. Diabetes, hypertension, or a combination of both, cause 80% of end-stage renal disease globally.

Diabetic Retinopathy is on the rise in young people. Here's how you can control it!

Diabetes increases your risk for many serious health problems. From kidney disease to lower limb and foot complications, nerve degeneration, bladder problems... it can wreak havoc on many organ systems5, especially the eyes.

Diabetic Retinopathy - Forewarned is Forearmed

There were 74 million patients with diabetes in India in 2021, and the number is expected to grow to 93 million in 2030 and 124 million in 2045. Additionally, almost 39.3 million people in India are estimated to be patients with diabetes who are undiagnosed.