Diabetes Treatment - Management Of Type 2 Diabetes
By editor | August 23, 2007
For some adults with mild elevations of blood sugar, redistribution of calories throughout the day (just as insulin dosages are distributed throughout the day) keeps the body from being challenged at anyone time of day or may smooth out the blood,sugar levels. If weight loss or choices of food do not aid the person in maintaining an average blood sugar below 150 mg/dl (8 mmol) , then the person will need some oral hypoglycemic agent to assist the body in functioning more appropriately. If an illness occurs in which a person cannot keep food down or the beta cells decrease their functioning, the person might temporarily need to go on insulin. Often, the oral agents will no longer work after five to ten years (this is called secondary failure of oral hypoglycemic agents), and the person will need to start using insulin. Especially if it is determined that the person is insulin resistant and thus actually requires high doses of insulin, some physicians find that they need to combine dosages of insulin with an oral agent given once or twice a day.
Exercise becomes a very important part of the adult’s management program. While children usually have planned exercise in school, the adult must exercise on his or her own. Exercise offers many benefits, one of which is a greater sensitivity to insulin by the receptor sites of the cells.
As the adult ages, the management program changes again. And if a complication of diabetes develops, many changes occur. If the problem involves the eyes, treatment will be needed to stabilize them. Adjusting to this treatment will likely cause changes in the person’s activity pattern; emotions will thus be involved. If the problem involves the kidneys, blood pressure will need to be controlled.
The use of medication to treat blood pressure may alter blood, glucose levels. If kidneys are affected by the aging process or by disease, the body will retain the insulin or oral, agent chemicals longer than is desired. There may thus be a need for lower doses of insulin or less of an oral agent, or a change from an oral agent to insulin.
As adults adjust to having diabetes and learn more about their own care, their diabetes control can truly be fine, tuned. The word diabetes does not need to be in neon lights all the time Changes of life may seem like obstacles to the diabetic, but a better way to see them is as challenges that happen to accompany the diagnosis of diabetes.
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