10 keys to maintaining good diabetes
Not easy to live every day with the stress of diabetes. Small reminder not to miss the essential controls.
When the disease appears to mature, many type 2 diabetics, consider their minor illness. "However, the long-term complications, ocular, cardiac and renal exist," said Dr. Tomy O'Sullivan, president of the International Diabetes Federation. The steps to limit risk.
1. Get involved in monitoring the disease
Eight out of ten diabetics wish. This means that we will not wait while the doctor and medicines, but we want to take charge. For this, we must be well informed.
2. Know glycated hemoglobin
If you are diabetic and you've never heard of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), you're probably not fully kept. This assay evaluates the average amount of sugar circulating in your blood the previous months. For hemoglobin fixed glucose.
3. Stabilize the rate below 7%
From a European country to another, the goal is not to exceed 6.5 to 7%. In France, the rule is to be below 7%. Each decrease of 1% reduces the risk of vascular complications by 25%.
4. Make a blood test every three months
To control the level of glycated hemoglobin in the blood, far more reliable than blood glucose (sugar in the blood).
5. Provide specialized consultation
Once a year, it is advisable to consult an ophthalmologist. Depending on your health, and if your disease is more or less balanced, see a diabetes specialist, a cardiologist ...
6. Exercise regularly
A healthy lifestyle reduces medical incidents in life. Perhaps more so in diabetics because their vessels are more fragile. Among the recommended activities: walking, biking, swimming.
7. Diet if overweight
Excess weight increases the risk of diabetes and makes it difficult to control once it is declared. In the survey, only four out of ten diabetics lost weight after diagnosis of the disease.
8. Know the limitations of oral treatments
Many medications must be combined to achieve adequate control of blood glucose. However, it happens that their action is blunted with age and that the insulin deficiency worsens.
9. Abandoning his fears about insulin
Seen as a constraint and loss of autonomy, taking insulin continues to fear. However, injections are no longer evil. The injection has become easy, and especially this treatment increases life expectancy.
10. Set goals with your doctor
Learn how you are diabetic forcing them to change their lifestyle, which is never easy. Setting goals helps motivate: lose five pounds, lowering his HbA1c of 1% working at least 30 minutes each day ...
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