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Exercise might help prevent uterine fibroids

...However, studies indicate that athletic women seem to be less likely to develop fibroids than women who are obese or who don't exercise.If fibroids are small and not causing symptoms, they do not need to be treated.

They may need to be removed if they cause significant symptoms or are large enough to interfere with fertility.

Dear Nurse Patti, I am a newly diagnosed diabetic, and would like to know the following: Does your blood sugar level go up when you have an illness, such as the stomach flu?

Jim from Chester Dear Jim, Infections are a very common cause of elevated blood sugar.

While your immune system fights an infection, your body produces "stress hormones" that can interfere with both the amount of insulin that you produce and the potency of your insulin effect.These hormones can raise your blood sugar.

On the other hand, a gastrointestinal virus can cause you to have a poor appetite, putting you at risk for a low glucose level if you are taking diabetes treatment medicine.Careful monitoring of your glucose level is important at all times, but especially so during an illness.

Nurse Patti of the Hudson Valley has been an RN for 32 years.

Send questions to her c/o the Record, 40 Mulberry St., Middletown 10940, or to nursepatti@th-record.com.

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