mercredi 24 février 2016

How Patients Benefit From Diabetes Counseling To Improve Their Health

By Gregory Powell


Diabetes affects many people from all ages. There are two types of diabetes called type one and type 2. Type one is called juvenile while the other one is adult onset diabetes.

Diabetes is the leading cause of death and in 2010 alone there was a reported number of sixty nine thousand death certificates that claimed it was the cause of death. And another two hundred thousand more that pointed to this as a factor. As a result it is important for people to visit regularly their family doctors for diabetes counseling to detect early signs.

However if left untreated often increases the risk for serious health complications to arise. Also it is important to address the common signs and symptoms for early detection. The following is symptoms and signs of this such as frequent urination, feeling thirsty and hungry all the time, intense fatigue, foggy vision, open wounds take longer time to heal, weight loss for type one sufferers, and numbing and tingling sensation around the extremities for type two.

Furthermore these signs might not even appear especially for sufferers of type two. Another reason sufferers should check with a health care professional and undertake test to determine whether there is a high presence of blood glucose. However test are repeated to reconfirm the levels, but when two different test results to positive outcomes there will be no second test again.

Prediabetes symptoms often go undetected because they rarely appear. And most victims move on with life not knowing they have any of these. So regular symptoms might not show, but high risk complications such as numbing of the hands and foot, ketones and ketoacidosis, nephropathy, increased high blood pressure, gastroparesis, stroke, and HHNS occur instead.

Other combinations of conditions and complications are hypoglycemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular diseases, heart attacks, stroke, eye problems and blindness, diseases in kidney, and amputation. Besides that there are four test that patient undergoes to determine whether they are a candidate. And these are A1C, FPG, OGTT, and Casual.

The first three test is used to measure and diagnose the presence of sugar in blood. Each of these test have unique ways of determining abnormal levels and processes in body. OGTT would determine how glucose is being processed. Patients are asked to fast for several hours or a day before the actual FPG test. And the A1C is used to understand the levels of glucose present from the last three months.

In general these test measures the level of sugar present in body. However with A1C these studies the levels between the last 2 and three months. While the fpg test measures the glucose levels when you are fasting. And the OGTT test is done once you drink a special formulated drink that is sweet, but this test tells the doctor how body processes the glucose.

Because diabetes two does not develop immediately even if there is the presence of prediabetes in the body already. When early treatment happens then the levels usually return to normal. Losing at least ten to fifteen pounds would safely keep you away from developing diabetes in the future.




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