Many people will probably say, “Take medicine and injections,” because diabetes can’t be cured anyway, and you can only rely on medicine and injections for the rest of your life. In fact, to know how to treat diabetes, we must first know that diabetes is divided into type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, of which type 2 diabetes accounts for more than 90% of people with diabetes, so in general we refer to type 2 diabetes. In the case of type 1 diabetes, the pancreatic islet function is completely lost and can only be treated with insulin for life. However, the ability to produce insulin in the body of type 2 diabetic patients is not completely lost, some patients even produce too much insulin in the body, but the effect of insulin is poor, so the insulin in the body of patients is only a relative lack, which can be relieved or even cured by medication or surgery. Medication for diabetes: 1. Oral hypoglycemic drugs The preferred treatment drug for patients with type 2 diabetes is metformin. If there are no contraindications, metformin should always be kept in the treatment regimen of diabetic patients. If there are contraindications and metformin cannot be used, you can choose a proinsulin secretagogue or an alpha-glucosidase inhibitor. 2.Insulin drugs If you still can’t control your blood sugar well by changing your lifestyle and using oral hypoglycemic drugs, or if taking other drugs will bring you adverse effects, your doctor may suggest you to use insulin. Currently, insulin cannot be taken orally and can only be injected through the skin using a device such as a syringe or insulin pen. Whether oral hypoglycemic drugs or insulin injections, patients need to adhere to them every day and cannot stop. Once the drugs are stopped, blood sugar will rise, so medication can only control the rate of development of diabetes and delay the occurrence of complications, but cannot cure diabetes. Surgical Treatment of Diabetes Gastric diversion surgery was first used in bariatric surgery. Westerners have been consuming high fat and high calories for a long time, and their weight has been rising, many people accept this kind of bariatric surgery in order to pursue beauty and make themselves healthy again. After several years of clinical practice, doctors accidentally found that this kind of surgery can effectively treat diabetes, thus gastric diversion surgery, which has brought a new gospel for diabetic patients. One comprehensive analysis of 22,094 patients showed that 84% of type 2 diabetes was completely reversed after the procedure, and most patients stopped taking oral medication or insulin therapy before being discharged from the hospital. Francesco Lupino of the Catholic University of Rome, Italy, reported similar results in Mexico, Peru, the Dominican Republic and India in diabetic patients who did not reach pathological obesity after gastric diversion surgery. Some other countries, such as China, Japan, Italy and Belgium, have also done some clinical trials.