Although there are two types of diabetes, the common type of diabetes in life is type 1 diabetes, which differs from type 2 diabetes in that the onset of type 1 diabetes is related to HLA antigens while type 2 diabetes has nothing to do with it; type 1 diabetes requires daily insulin injections to live a normal life while type 2 diabetes does not depend on insulin injections to maintain life, which is why type 1 Type 1 diabetes is also called insulin-dependent diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes generally occurs more in children and adolescents. Patients with type 1 diabetes will have obvious symptoms such as thirst, polyuria, polyphagia, lethargy and general weakness, etc. If you see a stranger with these symptoms, you can generally tell that the person is suffering from type 1 diabetes. If it is your friend or classmate, you should pay more attention because the onset of type 1 diabetes can be very fast and may catch people off guard.
What medication should be used for type 1 diabetes? Due to the characteristics of type 1 diabetes, it is easy to know that people with type 1 diabetes must have insulin injections every day for life to lower and control the blood sugar level in their bodies in order to live a normal life. So, to a certain extent, type 1 diabetes has only one medicine, and that is insulin. type 1 diabetics can’t live without and can’t leave the supply of insulin from outside. Otherwise, it can lead to life loss.
Type 1 diabetes brings more or less impact to the life of the patient, the quality of life of the patient to ensure that in addition to the patient should be injected insulin every day on time, but also depends on the patient’s own mentality, maintain an optimistic and positive attitude towards life, diabetes can actually become part of your life will not have too much impact on you, just need to inject insulin this step. Patients should also pay special attention to their diet, sugar, chocolate and other sweetness as much as possible do not touch, do not eat too much at one meal, it is best to eat less and more meals. High cholesterol and high fat food should not be consumed too much, nutrition with balanced daily calorie intake should not be too high, moderate exercise to improve physical fitness and so on. May people with type 1 diabetes become the ones who control it rather than the ones who are controlled by it.