Current Treatment Of Diabetes

by Owen Jones⁽¹⁸⁸⁾ Red Star

http://the-real-way.com

Health experts are almost universally convinced that numerous populations in the world, not just in the West, are in danger from obesity and diabetes. Not only are more and more middle-aged and elderly people getting diabetes, but younger people are too.

The age groups developing diabetes are becoming younger, but there does not appear to be any national advice from governments or nation's environmental health departments. If these health authorities have produced recommendations, they are not well broadcast.

At one time most people who got diabetes came from families which had a history of diabetes. However, nowadays practically everyone has a chance of becoming diabetic.

The obese are at risk, opine the doctors, but they are not so certain why other, thinner groups are getting it as well.

Why are thin, dynamic, apparently healthy individuals becoming first unable to control the amount of sugar in their blood and thus entering the pre-diabetic stage? Lots of these people will become diabetic sooner or later.

The diagnosis of diabetes used to be a sentence to a slow, drawn out death with amputations and organ failure en route to an early death. Blindness, cataracts, kidney failure and the amputation of toes and feet were normal.

Luckily, this is no longer true because of advances in the understanding of the disease and medical break-throughs. Part of the treatment without medication involves a change in lifestyle meaning increased exercise and attention to diet.

However, for those unable to cure themselves through lifestyle changes, there are drugs, hormones and technology:

One solution, the traditional solution, is to inject insulin, because diabetes is caused by a lack of insulin. First, the diabetic has to work out how much insulin he needs and then provide it.

The insulin can be delivered by injection, but also by insulin pump, which measures the blood-sugar level and delivers the insulin automatically. There are also insulin inhalers which can provide instant relief with fast-acting insulin in the mouth.

Insulin tablets are new, because insulin is digested by the stomach because it is a protein. These new tablets are coated in a polymer to get it past the digestive acids of the stomach. There is also a assortment of fat-acting and slow-acting 'mixtures' of different insulins for different people and different conditions.

It is, obviously, necessary to know the condition of your blood before you take insulin and some other medicines and this has to be done with a monitor or a swab, but the latter is less reliable.

There are pain-free glucose test kits, which are not invasive and you can also get a wristwatch-type monitor that continuously tests your blood-sugar level and displays the results on the watch face

The drugs companies and the hi-tec firms are researching methods to make more money from the increasing number of diabetics, so there are promises of break-throughs on the technological and the medical fronts all the time.

If you are dissatisfied with the treatment you are getting, change your GP to one who is interested in diabetes and who follows the latest ideas.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a variety of subjects, and is now involved with Diabetes Cook Books. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Cookbooks For Diabetics.

Article submitted Tuesday, December 06, 2011 & read 170 times.

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» left by HyunSoung Kim (166 days 19 hours ago.)

Thank you Owen on sharing your information on this topic! I totally agree with the genes, lifestyle and unfortunately the drugs part, i think it is not good to use drugs, but we have to in the negative cases.
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» left by Christofer French (166 days 18 hours ago.)
This is a real service to all who read. People need undestanding with regard to this condition/disease. Thank you. Screwed up the Stars. I will give you a "5"
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