Sugar brother: I say, sister, I have taken oral hypoglycemic drugs, but also used insulin, how can not control blood sugar? Sugar sister: you can not control your mouth, can not move your legs, and do not regularly monitor blood sugar, can control well? Sugar brother: you say I get some health care products or prescriptions or something, what do you think? Sugar sister: I pooh, head into the water what, if that line, the hospital has long been made, on your fine, come I give you a lesson. 1, the diabetes health products sold on the market can replace the drugs? Health care products include health food and health care drugs. Health food such as fiber-rich food can delay and reduce the absorption of glucose and cholesterol in the gastrointestinal tract, so that the blood sugar rises slowly, and is therefore conducive to blood sugar control. Trace elements such as organic chromium can also play a supportive role in diabetes and can improve glucose tolerance. Therefore, health supplements that are really beneficial for diabetes can be used if conditions are available, but health supplements cannot replace medicines. For patients with mild diabetes, it is not necessary to use medication, as long as they control their diet and exercise properly, and health supplements can be used as an auxiliary treatment at this time. However, diabetic patients with high blood sugar must be treated with drugs, and cannot use health supplements instead of drugs. Now there are many sugar-free foods for diabetics on the market, and many patients think they can treat diabetes or eat more without harm, but this is actually not true. The main dietary control for diabetics is to control total calories and limit saturated fatty acids, and eating more sugar-free foods is also not good for blood sugar control. Some health products may have hypoglycemic drugs in them, because there have been cases of hypoglycemia in Shanghai from eating hypoglycemic health products. 2. Is there a “prescription” for curing diabetes? Most diabetics must take medication or insulin injections for life, so some people may wonder if there are “ancestral prescriptions” that can completely cure diabetes. Modern pharmacology has proven that the hypoglycemic effect of traditional Chinese medicine has not been found to exceed that of western medicine and insulin, so there is no “prescription” that can cure diabetes. Of course, many herbal medicines can relieve the symptoms of diabetes and insulin resistance, enhance the effect of insulin, and mildly lower blood sugar. Therefore, it is important to understand and treat the role of herbal medicine in treating diabetes correctly, and use herbal medicine as an adjunct to diet, exercise and western medicine. You should never stop using oral hypoglycemic drugs and insulin by just taking “prescriptions”.