Learn how to control your diabetes-How to manage your diabetes

Learn how to control your diabetes-How to manage your diabetes

The diabetes of the type 1 and 2 are not managed in the same way.

To manage a diabetes of the type 1, it is necessary:

to receive insulin injections so that your body can stabilize your glycemia and use sugar;
to follow the recommendations of your doctor as for the food and to the exercise;
to supervise your glycemia regularly. For this purpose, the personal readers of glycemia who analyze only one blood drops are very useful;
to pass from the tests of HbA1c hemoglobin, which follow the evolution of your glycemia. Your doctor will prescribe this test all both or three months to check the stability of your glycemia.
The treatment by insulin depends on the quantity of insulin which produces your pancreas and of your sensitivity to this hormone. It is indeed a question of maintaining your glycemia on a normal level all the day by imitating the production of insulin of a healthy pancreas. The lifestyle, the exercise and the food can also assign the passage of the insulin of the pancreas to the blood system.

To manage a diabetes of the type 2, it is necessary:

to take drugs (managed by oral way),
to be made insulin injections (in certain cases),
to modify its food mode,
to control its weight and to make exercise,
to follow closely its glycemia,
to pass from the tests of HbA1c hemoglobin.
If you are reached of diabetes of the type 2, it may be that your doctor prescribes you drugs, like seals or capsules. There exist several kinds of drugs taken by oral way to treat the diabetes. They act all differently, but each one of them lowers the rate of glycemia. To know which drug or medicamentous association would be appropriate to you best, address you to your doctor.

Your plan of management must include a regular program of exercises and a healthy and balanced food. More on this subject, read the section “Diabetes, nutrition and exercise”.