Diabetes is a chronic disease and at present, there is no cure available for it.
The current approach is on managing the disease and preventing the onset of both short-term and long-term complications.
Clinical managements are tailored to suit the needs of the patient and considers other medical problems, diabetes complications (if any), age and overall health.
If you are not cared for correctly from very soon after your diabetes is discovered then you can easily develop complications.
These complications can end up being very serious.
It was not uncommon until recently to see diabetics with limbs missing.
Another problem that has been very common is the loss of sight.
In patients with type 1 diabetes, a daily injection (or sometimes as many as 3 injections) of insulin is the most common form of treatment.
This is usually a combination both short acting and long acting insulin like lispro (Humalog), aspart (NovoLog) and glargine (Lantus).
As a diabetic you will have to learn how to give your own injections, this can be quite traumatic for children so the whole family will have to learn how to do it initially and gradually the child will take more responsibility for their own care.
Since injections are expensive and no one really enjoys them most medical care providers will try to lower blood sugar levels without medications.
Since this method requires increasing physical activity, reducing intake of saturated fats, sugar and carbohydrates, and maintaining a ideal body weight it needs total compliance from the patient to work.
Medications are prescribed if the blood sugar levels remain high even after a few months of changes to diet and weight loss.
Problems often occur when a patient changes from the exercise and diet regime to having injections, the problem isn't in the injections it is usually in the patients mind.
They often suddenly stop doing the exercise and eating the foods that were helping to keep their sugar levels low.
Just because you are having insulin injections you must not stop living the healthy lifestyle that has been helping keep your sugar levels down.
The current approach is on managing the disease and preventing the onset of both short-term and long-term complications.
Clinical managements are tailored to suit the needs of the patient and considers other medical problems, diabetes complications (if any), age and overall health.
If you are not cared for correctly from very soon after your diabetes is discovered then you can easily develop complications.
These complications can end up being very serious.
It was not uncommon until recently to see diabetics with limbs missing.
Another problem that has been very common is the loss of sight.
In patients with type 1 diabetes, a daily injection (or sometimes as many as 3 injections) of insulin is the most common form of treatment.
This is usually a combination both short acting and long acting insulin like lispro (Humalog), aspart (NovoLog) and glargine (Lantus).
As a diabetic you will have to learn how to give your own injections, this can be quite traumatic for children so the whole family will have to learn how to do it initially and gradually the child will take more responsibility for their own care.
Since injections are expensive and no one really enjoys them most medical care providers will try to lower blood sugar levels without medications.
Since this method requires increasing physical activity, reducing intake of saturated fats, sugar and carbohydrates, and maintaining a ideal body weight it needs total compliance from the patient to work.
Medications are prescribed if the blood sugar levels remain high even after a few months of changes to diet and weight loss.
Problems often occur when a patient changes from the exercise and diet regime to having injections, the problem isn't in the injections it is usually in the patients mind.
They often suddenly stop doing the exercise and eating the foods that were helping to keep their sugar levels low.
Just because you are having insulin injections you must not stop living the healthy lifestyle that has been helping keep your sugar levels down.