Once you have diabetes, taking your glucose-lowering medication scientifically becomes one of the basics for patients. How to be scientific? There are at least four tips you must master. Tip 1: Pay attention to the timing of different glucose-lowering drugs Diabetic patients must be time-conscious, find out the schedule of the glucose-lowering drugs you take, and follow it strictly. The schedule of the five commonly used hypoglycemic drugs is: the first, taken 30 minutes before meals, mainly sulfonylurea pro-secretory agent hypoglycemic drugs such as eugenol, Damacam, Mepida, sugar, etc., in addition to proprietary Chinese medicine such as thirst pills. The second, 5~20 minutes before meals, mainly for non-sulfonylurea pro-secretory agent hypoglycemic drugs such as Novaluron, Tangli, etc.. These drugs are fast-acting, short-lived, and may cause hypoglycemia when given half an hour before or after meals, so they should be taken orally 5~20 minutes before meals. The third kind, taken after meal, such as metformin, etc. This kind of drug is to lower blood sugar by enhancing the uptake and utilization of glucose by peripheral tissues such as muscles and fats, plus the drug is irritating to the gastrointestinal tract, so it should be taken after meals to reduce discomfort. The fourth kind, taken during meals, is best chewed at the same time as the first bite of rice, and the aforementioned Bystolic belongs to this category, in addition to Bexin, Miglitol and so on. Its main role is to promote the post-meal blood glucose value down, if taken too early before or delayed to take after meals, will lose the effect of lowering sugar. The fifth, taken in the morning on an empty stomach, such as insulin sensitizers, including rosiglitazone, pioglitazone, etc.. Because of the long duration of action of such hypoglycemic drugs, a dose, the hypoglycemic effect can be maintained for 24 hours, so take the drug once a day before breakfast. Tip 2: Take glucose-lowering drugs to pay attention to calcium supplementation diabetic patients should be timely calcium supplementation. It is best to choose calcium tablets that are highly soluble, do not stimulate the stomach, easy to absorb, and taken at mealtime, which can increase the absorption rate by 20% compared to taking them after meals. Also adjust recipes to increase the amount of dairy, beans, green leafy vegetables and other foods with high calcium content to protect the bones. In addition, diabetic patients should also regularly go to the hospital to do bone density check, generally once a year, the purpose is to timely detection of bone loss, in order to adjust the prevention and control measures to prevent osteoporosis and the occurrence of fractures. Tip 3: drink health tea 2 hours after taking hypoglycemic drugs diabetic patients according to their condition, some health tea is really beneficial. Such as often dry mouth, red eyes, you can drink chrysanthemum tea, peppermint tea to quench thirst; constipation, you can drink cassia seed tea, hemp seed tea to laxative. Diarrhea, bloating, loss of appetite, can drink jujube tea; with high blood pressure, often feel dizzy, can drink chrysanthemum tea, peppermint tea or Xia Gu Cao tea to diarrhea and lower pressure. Skill four: adjust the dosage of hypoglycemic drugs according to the meal situation themselves. Such as taking postprandial blood sugar drugs non-sulfonylurea pro-secretory agent glucose-lowering drugs such as Novaluron, Tangli, etc. and glucosidase inhibitors such as Bystolic, Bexin, Miguel, etc. sugar lovers encounter a meal, a delicious meal, it is estimated that they have to eat more than usual, you can add half a tablet or a piece of drugs as appropriate to deal with the meal postprandial hyperglycemia.