Advanced Treatment Of Diabetes
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: beverages, cooking, diabetes, diet, disease, drink, food, gourmet, health, illness, lifestyle, other, recipes, self help, UncategorizedHealth professionals are almost universally convinced that many populations in the world, not just in the Developed World, are in danger from obesity and diabetes. Not just are more and more middle-aged and elderly people becoming diabetic, but younger people are as well.
The age groups getting diabetes are becoming younger, but there does not appear to be any national advice from governments or nation’s environmental health agencies. If these health authorities have produced recommendations, they are not widely transmitted.
At one time most people who got diabetes came from parents which had a history of diabetes. However, these days practically everyone has a risk of becoming diabetic.
The obese are at risk, say the doctors, but they are not so sure why other, thinner groups are developing it too.
Why are thin, active, apparently healthy individuals becoming first unable to regulate the amount of sugar in their blood and thus entering the pre-diabetic stage? Lots of these people will be diabetic sooner or later.
The diagnosis of diabetes used to be a sentence to a slow, lingering 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.
Fortunately, 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 heal 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 deficiency of insulin. First, the diabetic has to work out how much insulin he requires and then supply it.
The insulin may 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 as it is a protein. These new tablets are covered 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 situations.
It is, of course, necessary to know the condition of your blood before you take insulin and some other medications and this has to be done with a monitor or a swab, but the latter is less accurate.
There are pain-free glucose test kits, which are not invasive and you can also buy a wristwatch-type monitor that continuously checks your blood-sugar level and shows the results on the watch face
The drugs companies and the hi-tec companies are researching methods to create more money from the growing 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 piece, writes on a variety of topics, and is now concerned with Diabetes Cook Books. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Cookbooks For Diabetics.
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