Diabetes mellitus in our country has been rising linearly with the improvement of people’s living standard, the incidence rate is as high as 11.6%, and the number of people suffering from the disease has reached 113.9 million, which is very scary. What is even more horrible is that many diabetic patients do not know enough about the disease or there are misunderstandings, resulting in the original control of the disease due to their own mistakes and delay the best time for treatment. Highlighted in the following aspects: 1, will diabetes simply recognized as caused by eating sugar or eating too much sweets. In fact, diabetes is a chronic systemic metabolic disease caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors over a long period of time. Risk factors for diabetes include heredity, high-calorie, high-fat diet, too little physical activity, obesity, increasing age, psychological stress. 2, diabetes is a disease of middle-aged and old age, young people are unlikely to get diabetes. Nowadays, the age of onset of diabetes has significantly moved forward, and the incidence of young people is increasing. All people must re regular life, develop a healthy lifestyle. 3, eat a hypoglycemic drug can not control the diet. 4, fasting blood glucose normal means that diabetes control is stable. In fact, fasting blood glucose only represents no dietary load state of the basic blood glucose level, can not fully reflect the situation of blood glucose control, must be combined with postprandial blood glucose, glycated hemoglobin and other indicators of comprehensive analysis. 5, some health products can cure diabetes. Health products can not replace the therapeutic role of drugs to effectively control diabetes, not to mention cure diabetes. Health products are only a kind of food, with the commonality of general food, can regulate the body’s functions, adapted to the use of specific groups, but can not be used to treat the disease for the purpose. 6, blood glucose control is normal, there is no need for blood glucose monitoring and drug treatment. The correct approach is that diabetes is currently incurable and requires lifelong treatment. There are 382 million diabetic patients worldwide, with an average of one diabetic passing away every six seconds, and China’s diabetic patients have reached 113.9 million. In China, the number of people with diabetes has reached 113.9 million. Nearly half of all deaths in adults under the age of 60 are due to diabetes. Diabetes is a “lifelong disease”, once diagnosed with diabetes, you have to carry this “sweet burden”. However, many people do not know enough about diabetes and are easily confused by rumors. They may make mistakes without realizing it, which is not conducive to the control of the disease. Today, we have compiled a list of 10 common mistakes in the treatment of diabetes, to see if you have been hit! Mistake one, in order to control the diet, do not eat staple food Diabetes treatment, you need to keep your mouth shut, but dietary control is definitely not to let people eat less, do not eat staple food, but to ensure that the basic physiological activities required under the premise of the appropriate restriction of the total energy of the food, while maintaining a balanced nutrition. Mistake 2: Believing that diabetes can be cured Some people are so eager to cure the disease that they believe in advertisements, “traditional Chinese medicine has no side effects”, “traditional Chinese medicine can cure diabetes”, and believe in the so-called “secret prescriptions” and “traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions”, and abandon the original regular treatment program, which results in not only unsatisfactory glycemic control, but also many toxic side effects. Mistake 3: Refusing medication Those who have just been diagnosed with diabetes often find it hard to accept that they have the disease. Often take a chance, or have unnecessary fear of hypoglycemic drugs, hoping to control blood sugar through diet and exercise, rather than accepting medication to lower blood sugar. In fact, at any stage of diabetes, oral hypoglycemic drugs or insulin can be used to provide intensive hypoglycemic treatment, which can help to slow down the development of complications. Mistake 4: Taking medication by feeling and neglecting condition monitoring If you only take medication by feeling and do not monitor your blood glucose, you will not be able to detect poor blood glucose control in time, and you will not be able to adjust the dosage of medication in time, and there is a possibility that your blood glucose will fluctuate, which will bring about the risk of more complications and aggravation of your condition. The frequency of blood glucose monitoring is different for different patients: 1. Insulin therapy: when blood glucose does not reach the standard or when glucose-lowering therapy has just started, the frequency of blood glucose monitoring should be ≥5 times per day, and 2-4 times per day for patients who have reached the standard. 2. Non-insulin therapy: the frequency of blood glucose monitoring should be ≥5 times per day. Non-insulin therapy: When blood glucose does not reach the standard, blood glucose should be monitored 3 days a week, 5-7 times a day; after blood glucose reaches the standard, blood glucose should be monitored 3 days a week, 2 times a day. Mistake five, eager to lower sugar, frequent changes in medication Glucose-lowering drugs with the extension of the drug time, the effect of the drug can only gradually appear. Many people with diabetes, in order to quickly bring down blood sugar, not a few days of medication, unauthorized increase in dosage, and even add other hypoglycemic drugs. Such a practice is very dangerous, easy to overkill, causing hypoglycemia, and even the danger of hypoglycemic coma. It is important to know that some hypoglycemic drugs should be taken for half a month to one month to achieve the maximum effect of lowering sugar. Error six, that the lower the blood sugar the better Many friends with diabetes, only focus on high blood sugar, but ignore the danger of low blood sugar, that the lower the blood sugar the better. In fact, the danger of hypoglycemia is higher than that of hyperglycemia, especially for older diabetic patients. A sugar patient with blood glucose lower than 3.9 mmol/L is considered hypoglycemia. Frequently occurring hypoglycemia, the brain and heart will be affected, and even induced myocardial infarction, stroke. Therefore, blood glucose control is not the lower the better, the control target should listen to the doctor, the doctor will be based on age, condition, complications and other circumstances, choose the appropriate range of blood glucose control. Mistake 7, playing insulin, needle not taken without replacement Some sugar users did not remove the needle after each insulin injection, thus establishing a channel between the quill and the outside world, leading to bacteria in the air and on the needle tip to enter the quill through the needle, increasing the chance of local infection of the injection. In addition, if the needle is not removed, air will enter the cartridge, resulting in inaccurate measurement of the insulin pen and causing blood sugar fluctuations when it is used again. Mistake 8: Improper storage of insulin Unopened insulin refills should be stored in the freezer of the refrigerator (about 2℃～8℃). But do not put it in the freezer, otherwise the frozen insulin will appear particles or crystals after thawing and can not be used again. Mistake 9, stopping medication without authorization At present, there is no cure for diabetes. Generally speaking, after a period of treatment, the clinical symptoms of diabetes will disappear and blood sugar will drop to normal, which does not mean that diabetes has been cured. Sugar lovers should continue to use drugs to maintain, dietary control and exercise must not relax, do not stop taking drugs without authorization. Mistake 10, slow-release tablets broken or chewed eat Some slow-release tablets, such as gliclazide extended-release tablets, glipizide extended-release tablets, etc., the volume of each tablet is larger. When taking these medications, many sugar users often break or chew the tablets in order to make them easier to swallow, but this practice is wrong. The active ingredients of extended-release tablets are wrapped in a special membrane, which is 2 to 3 times higher than that of ordinary tablets, and the active ingredients can be released slowly after eating. Therefore, many extended-release tablets should be taken only once a day.