LiveWell Diabetes Support Programme Puzzle No 1

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Across
  1. 3. Excessive urination
  2. 6. Tingling sensation
  3. 9. Specializes in problems that affect feet or lower legs
  4. 10. Pricking device
  5. 12. Presence of simple sugar in the urine
  6. 13. Carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness
  7. 16. Medication
  8. 17. Too little glucose in the blood
  9. 18. Body breaks it down into glucose
  10. 20. Found mainly in meat and beans
  11. 22. Responsible for making insulin
  12. 23. Too much glucose in the blood
  13. 26. By-product of fat broken down into energy
  14. 27. Adherence to medication and treatment plan
  15. 28. Damage to the kidney
Down
  1. 1. Excessive thirst
  2. 2. Fat
  3. 3. Organ in the pancreatic system that produces enzymes that break down sugars, fat, & Starch
  4. 4. Diet Specialist
  5. 5. Diabetes management centre
  6. 7. Occurs when an injection site is overused
  7. 8. Breakdown and uptake of food
  8. 11. It raises the blood glucose level
  9. 14. Allows glucose to enter the cells that need it
  10. 15. Excessive hunger
  11. 19. Damage of nerves in the eyes
  12. 21. 90 days average glucose measurement
  13. 24. Early sign of type 2 diabetes
  14. 25. Self monitoring glucose device