According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 537 million adults worldwide have diabetes, and one in 11 people has diabetes. But there is still no radical cure for diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common, accounting for 90% -95%. Diabetes itself is not terrible. What is terrible is the complications of diabetes. After diabetes has developed to a certain stage, it will cause many serious complications such as diabetes fundus disease, stroke, diabetes neuropathy, heart disease and diabetes nephropathy in the later stage.
Diabetes is a metabolic disease that causes hyperglycemia due to insufficient insulin or insensitivity of receptors in the body. The typical symptoms are "three more and one less", namely excessive drinking, excessive eating, excessive urination, and weight loss; It may also be accompanied by symptoms such as thirst, skin itching, and difficulty in healing wounds.
In addition to clinical standard treatment, diabetes patients should also pay attention to their own blood sugar control in daily life. Most diabetes patients have unstable blood glucose control, partly due to their own factors and treatment effects. In addition, there is a very important factor, which is the daily management of diabetes patients. Diabetes is a chronic disease in clinic. to control blood sugar well, patients need long-term persistence and regular monitoring to achieve a good improvement.
Improving diet: Maintaining stable blood sugar levels requires good habits; To develop good lifestyle habits, diet is essential. Even if you take too many hypoglycemic drugs, it will not improve your eating habits and ultimately lead to an increase in blood sugar, affecting your health. Therefore, people with diabetes must keep their mouths shut, eat meals reasonably, and it is best not to eat too much starchy, meat, and fruit foods that are high in sugar and too greasy, in order to avoid high blood sugar caused by excessive intake of food; Eat more vegetables and high fiber foods, which have a great effect on controlling blood sugar and protecting cardiovascular health. In addition, if people with diabetes want to eat sugar, we recommend foods like xylitol.
Moderate exercise: It is necessary for diabetes patients to maintain sufficient physical activity in their daily lives. Most patients are middle-aged and elderly, and do not require high-intensity exercise. As long as they take a walk after eating or have some free time, long-term persistence can greatly improve blood sugar levels.
Control your own weight: Accurately control your weight, which is more conducive to maintaining stable blood sugar levels. Patients with overweight body shape can also achieve a suitable weight target by measuring food weight, exercising more, and eating less and more frequently.
Ensuring sleep: Adequate sleep plays a crucial role in human health. When a person enters sleep, various organs in the body repair themselves, which is quite effective in controlling blood sugar. If patients with diabetes suffer from chronic sleep deprivation, it is easy to have unstable blood sugar. Therefore, try to ensure 8 hours of sleep every day.
Finally, I would like to remind you that diabetes does not happen in a short time, so it is a long journey to improve diabetes. What we need to do for diabetes is patience and persistence. Only in this way can we have a positive effect on the treatment of diabetes.