For people with diabetes, taking hypoglycemic drugs may not necessarily help you prevent diabetes complications.
Aunt Li is an example.
She took insulin for more than ten years, but she still failed to avoid blindness. Because she hadn’t seen a doctor for more than ten years, basically never had her blood sugar measured, nor had she adjusted her insulin regimen.
As you can imagine, her blood sugar has been rising for so many years.
Today, I would like to talk with you about what to do to prevent diabetes complications apart from using hypoglycemic drugs?
1. Be sure to have regular follow-up visits
Follow-up visits can be Helping people with diabetes test the quality of disease control can help you control your diabetes well, not just prescribing medicine.
How to properly follow up with diabetes?
- Write the questions you want to ask the doctor in a notebook, so as not to forget when you see the doctor;< /span>
- The day before the follow-up visit, measure blood sugar before and after three meals, measure blood pressure in the morning and evening, and show it to the doctor during the follow-up visit to assess whether the treatment plan needs to be adjusted ;
- Take the initiative to tell the doctor about the changes in your condition, if there is any special discomfort, whether there is hypoglycemia, etc.;
What are the follow-up checks?
- Monthly: fasting blood glucose, postprandial blood glucose, blood pressure; < /li>
- 3 months: glycosylated hemoglobin;
- 3-6 months: liver and kidney function, Blood lipids;
- 6 months: neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease, foot examination;
- 6-12 months: urine routine, urine microalbumin-to-creatinine ratio. If you have already had diabetic nephropathy, you should be screened once every 3-6 months. Have a fundus examination at least once a year.
The frequency of the above examinations is not fixed, and the doctor will adjust it according to the needs of the condition.
2. Be sure to measure blood sugar
I don’t know how much sugar is in the blood by accident. It’s not reliable by feeling! This is why many people find abnormal blood sugar during an accidental physical examination, rather than feeling it themselves.
- If a diabetic does not measure blood sugar, it is impossible to control blood sugar because you do not know if your diet, exercise, and medication are appropriate ;
- If you don’t measure your blood sugar, you won’t find potentially risky blood sugar values, such as 3.9, 13.9, 16.7, etc. switch on acute and chronic complications of diabetes.
- If you don’t measure your blood sugar, you don’t know how long your blood sugar will reach the target and whether your daily blood sugar fluctuations are acceptable.
So, if you have diabetes, you must test your blood sugar, but most In this case, it is not necessary to test every day, but it must not be tested once a year or half a year. The specific screening frequency, listen to the doctor!
Diabetes is dynamic, and it is impossible for one treatment plan to go all the way. Diabetic patients can avoid serious complications like Aunt Li by doing regular follow-up visits and monitoring blood sugar. Have you done it?
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Author: ysy