The best way to stay healthy with diabetes is to control the level of sugar in your blood. The medical word for sugar in the blood or blood sugar is glucose. Your goal is to keep your blood sugar as close to normal as possible without having high or low blood sugar problems.
Down’s syndrome (DS) was first described in detail by an English doctor, John Langdon Down, in 1866. It is a congenital condition which randomly affects about 1 in every 700 babies born throughout the world, male and female alike. A ‘syndrome’ means a group of recognisable characteristics occurring together. A ‘congenital’ syndrome is one present at birth, one which cannot be ‘caug…