Diabetes Mellitus Blog

The main goal of diabetes treatment is to maintain the values of blood sugar within normal values as much as possible. Although it is difficult to maintain completely normal values, try to be as near normal as possible to be less likelihood of complications, either temporary or long term. The main problem in trying to tightly control the values of blood sugar, is that there is a decrease unwanted thereof (hypoglycemia).

Treatment of diabetes requires control of weight, exercise and diet. In many cases of type II diabetes, administration of drugs would not be necessary if obese patients lose weight and make orderly pursuit. However, reducing weight and increasing exercise is difficult for most diabetics. Therefore, it is often necessary to resort to either replacement therapy or oral hypoglycemic medication. Exercise promotes the direct descent of the concentrations of blood sugar and reduces the amount of insulin.

The diet is very important. In general, diabetics should not eat too many sugary foods and regular meals would have a uniform program. However, eating a snack before bedtime or during the afternoon sometimes prevents hypoglycemia in people who inject intermediate-acting insulin in the morning or afternoon. Since people with diabetes also have tendency to have high cholesterol values, dietitians generally recommend limiting intake of saturated fat. However, the best way to reduce cholesterol values is to control blood sugar levels and body weight.