Patient Diet And Exercise

Diet and Exercise: Having a good understanding of your diet and your nutritional intake is one of the most important ways that you could manage your diabetes because the food you eat will affect your blood sugar and your weight.

Medication compliance: The adherence to your medication regimen is absolutely crucial for the management of your diabetes. It is essential for you to have a full understanding and knowledge of what medication is prescribed to you as well as what the indication is for taking them. You need to be in control your diabetes and the only way to gain that control is to develop a full understanding the medication that is prescribed to you, keep to the medication regimen and learn how your medication effects and interacts

in your body. Educating yourself will help keep you compliant with your medication will make the difference of what could be a potentially unsafe situation to improving your diabetes outcome as well as your overall quality of life.

Often patients with diabetes end up having multiple comorbidities which require them to take many different pills causing them to feel that they don't what to deal with it or keep track of them so they just don't take them or assume that their providers communicate with each other about their medication and leave it up to the doctors to figure it out for them.

Blood sugar monitoring: Keeping a daily log and controlling your blood sugar within a healthy range is an absolute must and the best way to reduce your changes of any long term complications which occurs from diabetes.

Eyes: Diabetes causes your vision to go bad by damaging the small blood vessels within the eye, this is called retinopathy. This can lead to blindness. Consequently, having your vision compromised can lead to functional deficits, medication errors, as well as falls.

Women with diabetes they lose the ability to have what would normally protect them from heart disease so by keeping your blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure as close as you can to a normal range through healthy eating and regular exercise will help reduce the risk of heart disease.

Kidney disease: eating a low salt diet, maintaining a healthy weight, and blood pressure will help prevent the possibility of kidney disease and reduce the need for blood pressure

medication.

Diabetes can and will cause damage to your nerves which consequently cause loss of feeling and weakness in your lower extremities called peripheral neuropathy. This could increase your risk for falling and/or balance deficits. The tingling or numbness occurs because of the decreased amount of glucose in the cell. This will increased your chance of foot infections so it is essential to check your feet everyday as well as routine doctor visits to examine your feet to check for any cuts or early signs of infection.

Signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia: Hypoglycemia is when your blood sugar drops below 70mg/dL. You may start to feel her heart beating fast, your feel jittery and begin to sweat. It will affect your thinking and you'll have trouble making simple choices with moments of confusion. To help avoid the possibility of low blood sugar you need to mindful of how you eat for instance the timing of your meals throughout the day, you active and on a routine schedule as well as testing your blood sugar often. Know your symptoms of low blood sugar, and keep a blood sugar trend.
Hyperglycemia is harder to detect when it is happening except for when the blood sugar is severely high. When blood sugar rises too quickly may not think clearly or as fast as you would normally. You have less energy and make more mistakes. And blood sugar that stays high for long periods of a time you consequently are at higher risk for heart disease, kidney disease, loss of vision, stroke as well as other long term medical problems. To help avoid spikes in your blood sugar you will need to keep your blood sugar within a healthy range prior to eating your meals, test your sugar right before you eat your meal and then again two hours after.