The Tips for Diabetes Patients

The incidence of diabetes is rapidly increasing. Each year, thousands of people are newly diagnosed with diabetes. Besides the medications, people also need to learn self-care to keep healthy. This article aims to provide some tips for diabetes patients.

1. Choose a good doctor with rich experience of diabetes. You need to keep close contact with your doctor often telling him your illness condition and then receiving the proper treatment.
2. Learn more about diabetes. You need to learn some information about diabetes by the books or lectures so that you can improve your ability to prevent the diabetes.

3. Keep the reports of illness. When you go to see a doctor, you had better to tell the doctor your illness history and present condition and present the reports so that doctor can get the general information about your condition, which is helpful for you and your doctor to give a better diagnosis and treatment.

4. Often go for tests. You had better to buy a machine for glucose to monitor the blood sugar by yourself. You need to monitor the fasting blood-glucose and blood sugar after the meals. According to the change of blood sugar, you need to adjust the diet and the dosage of medicines. The treatment of diabetes is lifelong thing. The good cooperation between patient and doctor is a guarantee of good prognosis.

5. Regular physical examination. You can do a physical examination each year or half a year. The early detection of diabetic complication can effectively delay the aggravation of diabetes. Control blood sugar to make sure that blood sugar can be at the normal level. In daily life, protect liver and kidneys and do not take the medicines which are toxic to the kidneys and liver. Skin and foot is also the focus you need to pay more attention to. Prevent infection and complications.

Diabetes is not serious but the complications like kidney disease, eye problems, heart problems, nerve disease are life-threatening. So the self-care is very important for diabetes patients. If you have any other questions about diabetes, you can consult the experts online. We are glad to help you!