Saccharin: A sweetener with no calories and no nutritional value.
Secondary Diabetes: A type of diabetes caused by another disease or
certain drugs or chemicals.
Self-Management: In diabetes, self-management means the ongoing
process of managing diabetes. The management includes meal planning, planned
physical activity, blood glucose monitoring, taking diabetes medicines, the
handling episodes of illness and of low and high blood glucose, managing
diabetes when traveling, and more. The person with diabetes designs his or her
own self-management treatment plan in consultation with a variety of health care
professionals such as doctors, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, and others.
Sharps Container: A container for disposal of used needles and
syringes; often made of hard plastic so that needles cannot poke through.
Short-Acting Insulin: A type of insulin that starts to lower blood
glucose within 30 minutes after injection and has its strongest effect 2 to 5
hours after injection. See regular insulin.
Sliding Scale: A set of instructions for adjusting insulin on the
basis of blood glucose test results, meals, or activity levels.
Split Mixed Dose: Division of a prescribed daily dose of insulin into
two or more injections given over the course of the day.
Starch: Another name for carbohydrate, one of the three main nutrients
in food.
Stroke: Condition caused by damage to blood vessels in the brain; may
cause loss of ability to speak or to move parts of the body.
Subcutaneous Injection: Putting a fluid into the tissue under the skin
with a needle and syringe.
Sucralose: A sweetener made from sugar but with no calories and no
nutritional value.
Sucrose: A two-part sugar made of glucose and fructose. Known as
table sugar or white sugar, it is found naturally in sugar cane and in beets.
Sugar Alcohols: Sweeteners that produce a smaller rise in blood
glucose than other carbohydrates. Their calorie content is about 2 calories per
gram.
Sugar Diabetes: Former term for diabetes mellitus.
Sugar: A class of carbohydrates with a sweet taste, including glucose,
fructose and sucrose. Or a term used to refer to blood glucose.
Sulfonylurea: A class of oral medicine for Type 2 diabetes that lowers
blood glucose by helping the pancreas make more insulin and by helping the body
better use the insulin it makes.
Syringe: A device used to inject medications or other liquids into
body tissues. The syringe for insulin has a hollow plastic tube with a plunger
inside and a needle on the end.
