Diarrhea means bowel movements with loose stools several times during a single day. It can last from a few days to a month depending on the cause. Diarrhea can occur due to infections, medication use, other diseases and food allergies and intolerances. In fact, a person’s diet and diarrhea are closely linked together.

Chronic constipation is a condition where irregular or painful bowel movements last for more than three months. Symptoms can include passing stools just once or twice in a week, hard stools, need for straining to pass stools and feeling of incomplete evacuation. Chronic constipation treatment can involve treating the underlying cause and making some healthy changes.

Knowing what to eat and what to avoid is very important for maintaining the right blood sugar levels. If an individual is on a diabetic diet, they must avoid certain food offenders which raise the insulin levels and make them prone to heart diseases. Here are certain foods one must avoid if they have diabetes.

Insulin pumps are portable computerized devices used for insulin therapy. These are small in size and deliver short-acting or rapid insulin to the body continuously. Long-acting insulin types such as Lantus insulin or Levemir are not recommended to use through pump therapy. The device components An insulin pump is made up of many small parts.

Having less sleep or more sleep can be either short-term or long term depending on the reasons. If you are loading your mind with too many thoughts or worries, then you are likely to suffer from acute insomnia which is temporary and normalizes with time. However, if there are reasons beyond related to other health issues, this has to be addressed with proper medication that can get chronic.

Treating chronic pain is an art. More than anything else, it is quite challenging. Hence one needs a personalized health care team and pain management plan to deal with the pain/health condition. The best way to analyze or to develop a comprehensive plan is talking to and with the health care team in detail and describing to them about the pain that you struggled or are struggling with, and your expectations.