Diabetic patients need to become doctors who manage themselves

  Diabetic patients (mostly type 2 diabetes) generally have mild symptoms at the beginning of the disease, some show dry mouth, polyuria, and no other discomfort, so most people think they don’t need to mind with some drugs, but they don’t know that uncontrolled high blood sugar is eroding the microcirculation, blood vessels, and nerves of your organs, causing subtle effects, and after many years, cardiovascular disease, eye and kidney damage, peripheral neurovascular disease, gangrene of the lower limbs, and other painful results. Peripheral neurovascular disease, gangrene of the lower limbs and other traumatic results, causing incalculable damage to individuals, families and society.  For diabetic patients, excessive contempt and frustration are undesirable. After learning about the disease, they should become doctors who manage themselves well and persist for a long time.  Medication: choose insulin treatment early if the blood sugar is out of control or there are complications; choose insulin treatment as early as possible if there are heart, liver and kidney underlying lesions; choose oral medication if mild diabetes patients fail to meet the standard by diet control and exercise, but regular endocrine clinic review is required to adjust the treatment plan in time, to know that one or two fingertip blood glucose can not indicate the treatment effect, need to March once the The glycated hemoglobin should be determined once every three months.  Exercise: As a diabetic patient, we should develop good habits of exercise, which can lower blood sugar and improve insulin sensitivity, and exercise after meals can reduce the dosage of drugs.  Self-testing: Diabetic patients should learn to self-monitor their blood sugar, adjust the amount of food and the reasonable choice of food varieties according to the blood sugar situation, and be more active in testing while suffering from other diseases to understand the changes in blood sugar, which provides a guarantee for the healing of the disease. Adjustment and replacement of medication can be done when necessary.  Diet control: Diabetic patients should estimate the amount of food they eat to decide their daily diet, and eat under the allocation of the hospital dietitian if necessary. Overweight patients should lose weight in time and have a reasonable diet to control their blood sugar.  Diabetic patients psychotherapy: diabetic patients due to the disease caused by psychological depression is not a minority, as patients should know that diabetes is preventable, controllable and curable disease, control, and normal people are no different, while diabetic patients themselves become a qualified nutritionist and health experts.  In short, the above five aspects will be done well, and then communicate with endocrinologists often, control of diabetes is just around the corner.