Learn how to control your diabetes-How to supervise your glycemia

Learn how to control your diabetes-How to supervise your glycemia

The Canadian Association of the diabetes (ACD) suggested recently with the people reached of a diabetes of the type 1 or 2 to follow themselves their glycemia. According to the ACD, the same recommendation applies to the majority of people reached of a diabetes of the type 2 and whose treatment is limited to the catch of drugs or with those which simply deal with their diabetes by means of their food mode and of the physical exercise.

Thanks to the readers of glycemia, on sale in the majority of pharmacies, you can follow yourselves your glycemia without leaving on your premise. You can thus take an active share with the management of your diabetes. Moreover, by using a reader of glycemia, you will be able to determine the effect of certain food on your glycemia, which will be able to guide your food choices more judiciously.

To know some more about the model of reader of glycemia best adapted to your situation, consult your specialized educator in diabetes or your pharmacist. Before using a reader of glycemia, you will have to receive a formation allowing you to measure your glycemia adequately.

Consult your specialized educator in diabetes to know some more about:

the dimension of the blood drops necessary,
the type of strips which you will need,
the way of checking if the reader functions adequately (it should be checked at least once per annum),
the way of coding the reader,
the way of cleaning the reader.
In the event of symptoms of hypoglycemia (insufficiency of sugar in blood), to check the glycemia immediately. If you do not have a reader of glycemia under the hand, follow the following directives nevertheless to treat the symptoms:

Consume glucids with fast absorption (15 grams):
5 compressed glucose
¾ cup (175 ml) of orange juice
8 Life Savers® OR 5 candies
1 C. with table (15 ml) of honey
Await 10 to 15 minutes, then test your glycemia again. If it is still too low:
repeat the treatment
so more than one hour must be passed before your next meal or if you intend to be physically active, take a collation, for example, a half-sandwich or cheese with craquelins without salt (the collation must comprise 15 grams of glucids and a source of proteins).
On the occasion, the doctors suggest with the people predisposed with episodes of hypoglycemia to carry on them 1 glucagon Mg, ready to inject in the event of urgency and easy access. This drug makes assemble the sugar rate from 3,0 to 12,0 mmol/L in one hour.

The cases of self-analysis of urine are useful in the event of disease or of diabetes gestationnel (associate with a pregnancy). The ketonic bodies are potentially dangerous acids which accumulate in blood when the quantity of insulin is insufficient there. Ketonic accumulations of body are especially associated with the diabetes of the type 1.

To measure the concentration of these bodies, you must take a sample of urine, to deposit a diagnostic stick and withdraw it there when it changed color. Compare then the stick with a scale of colors to know your results. If your concentration of ketonic bodies is raised or average, call your doctor immediately. A weak concentration can reveal the beginning of an accumulation; you should thus test another sample a few hours later.