diabetes and cold weather

Ask D’Mine: Insulin on the Rocks

By WilD on January 26, 2013

Got questions about navigating life with diabetes? Ask D’Mine! Our weekly advice column, that is — hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil experiments with his home freezer after getting a question about how cold insulin can get before it proves unusable. Read on: you might just get chills hearing what he discovered!
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
 
Mary, type 1 from North Dakota, asks:…

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Diabetes and the Ice Age

By AmyT on November 29, 2010

Did you know that more people are diagnosed with diabetes in the colder months of the year? Also, type 1 diabetes is more common in European countries than in African or South American countries. And Finland has the highest rate of type 1 diabetes in the world.  What do these things have in common? Yes, it seems there’s a connection between diabetes and cold weather!
Would you believe that in the book Survival of the…

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