When you get type 2 diabetes at a young age, you can be treated reasonably through general treatment and medication.
1. General treatment: including diabetes education, diet therapy and exercise therapy.
Diabetes education: For young diabetic patients, it is important to pay attention to learn and understand as much knowledge about diabetes as possible, understand the complications, and improve the awareness and ability of self-management.
Diet therapy: It is the basic management measure of diabetes, which helps patients to restore and maintain their ideal body weight by formulating a nutritional plan and forming good eating habits.
Exercise therapy: young patients presenting with diabetes, part of the population is accompanied by obesity, can be under the guidance of the doctor, weekly exercise of appropriate intensity, such as jogging, swimming and so on.
2. Medication: For patients with poor blood sugar control, medication should be used for control under the guidance of a doctor.
Oral drugs: commonly used drugs are sulfonylureas such as glibenclamide, gliclazide, etc., which can promote the secretion of insulin by pancreatic islet cells to control blood glucose; Glargine drugs such as Repaglinide and Nagelenide, which have faster onset of action and shorter duration of action.
Injectable drugs: such as insulin, can be divided into short-acting, long-acting and other types, which can be selected according to the patient’s demand for lowering sugar.
In addition, diabetes is a kind of incurable disease, which is relatively harmful. In order to avoid serious complications, it is recommended that patients go to the hospital regularly for follow-up and active treatment.