What to do about type 2 diabetes

Type 2 diabetes requires a combination of dietary therapy, exercise therapy and drug therapy. 1. Diet therapy: patients need to ensure balanced nutrition, daily diet ration, but also to adjust the food structure, a reasonable combination of meals, mainly cereals, a reasonable intake of high dietary fiber, low salt, low sugar, low fat food. 2. Exercise therapy: you need to strengthen physical exercise, you can choose to play Tai Chi, cycling, badminton and other sports, which can increase insulin sensitivity, and is conducive to stabilizing blood sugar. 3. Medication: Diabetic patients can take oral metformin, acarbose and other drugs to control blood glucose as prescribed by the doctor, and if the blood glucose is still not controlled, insulin injection is needed under the guidance of the doctor for treatment. Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong disease and cannot be cured. Patients need to cooperate with doctors to control their blood sugar for a long time and go to the hospital for regular checkups.