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How long do people with diabetic macula edema have to have treatment for? is it life long?
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This will depend on the effect diabetes control will have on your type of diabetes 1 or 2. Any high blood pressure. The Kempner-Rice Diet has been shown to reverse blindness in diabetes with severe high blood pressure. In 2 months. See 251. Klemmer P, Grim CE, Luft FC. Who and what drove Walter Kempner? The rice diet revisited. Hypertension. 2014 64:684-8 for detials.
Answered 6/12/2022
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