Diabetes guidelines best practice
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For starters, changing lifestyle habits can go a long way in controlling type 2 diabetes. In my eyes, it's a must do. If you decide not to change, diabetes becomes a progressive disease only getting worse over time ending with neurothapy and amptutation. You and only you can control and manage this disease. Here's how.
These guidelines are adapted from the 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Canadian Diabetes Association. They do not imply they are normal or acceptable but only glycemic targets for most diabetics who home monitor I should have made that clearer in my post. Sorry...
avoid refined sugars, practice and adhere to weight control, do some sort of exercise 60 minutes daily, practice stress management, and get adequate sleep. These are all important in managing this illness, the most important, along with proper nutrition, is physical activity.
Besides watching sugar in your diet-- you also need to watch carbohydrates (starches) carefully too. For example-- things like breads, potatoes, pasta, crackers, etc.
Dec 18, 2013
The long-awaited update to guidelines for the management of hypertension -- from the panel appointed to the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC 8) -- raises the recommended blood pressure threshold to determine the need for drug therapy in many patients.
The following lab values are the American Diabetes Association practice guidelines for the diagnosis of diabetes:
# A random plasma glucose value of 200 mg/dl (11.11 mmol/L) or more (in the presence of diabetes symptoms).
# A plasma glucose value of 126 mg/dl (7 mmol/L) or more.
# An oral glucose plasma glucose value of 200 mg/dl (11.11 mmol/L) or higher at 2 hours post-glucose load.
taken from http://www.dlife.com/dLife/do/ShowContent/type1_information/diagnosis/diagnosis.
I concur with Super_Sally, blood test don't lie. Your 6.2% A1c results says you've become a diabetic.
I have posted this before to help others and hope you get something out of it too.
Changing lifestyle habits can go a long way in controlling type 2 diabetes. Restrict & avoid refined sugars, practice and adhere to weight control, do some sort of exercise daily, practice stress management, and get adequate sleep.
If you have an Endocrinologist, a diabetes doctor, or a diabetes nurse, or a nutritionist they can help you a lot with nutritional guidelines. [Serving sizes, and how many servings of each type food that's safe for you.
It is also a new practice (Joslin diabetes center - one of the world'sleading diabetes management and research centres) to start all persons with diabetes on insulin instead of oral meds.
Glipizide is a drug that makes your pancreas put out more insulin so it can cause lows. It can also make your pancreas burn out faster. So do research this and consider stopping this drug (in coordination with your Dr.)
Metformin does not have this effect. So you can ask your Dr.
"i checked my sugar, 4 hours after dinner and its 297"
Testing blood sugar four hours after a meal exceeds the postprandial testing time, should be between 2-3 hours maximum. If you had results of 297 mg/dl it's highly likely your postprandial was way higher than this and very dangerous level to be at. So, if you're thinking what should I do beside pop Victoza read on.
Diabetes certainly can be progressive, but only if you let it progress to your ruin.
My understanding of diabetes nutrition is that there are general guidelines, but no one right way. It is not rigid like "eat three servings of this at this time". Within the general guidelines of healthy eating you need to see what works for you. To me, the best way to do that is "test, test, test". When I was first diagnosed I was "required" to test two times: first thing in the morning and two hours after breakfast. But I tested more..
Hi..my mum has liver cirrhosis for the past 30 years and she also has Diabetes Type 2. Our Local MO has recommended Galvus 50mg for diabetes medication. However, after further reading on the net I found that Galvus 50mg is not for liver patients.. the problem is I can't seem to find any suitable medication for her diabetes which would NOT effect her liver condition. I welcome any suggestion or recommendation from members and medical practitioners here please..
Changing lifestyle habits can go a long way in controlling type 2 diabetes. India leads the world in diabetes. This is mainly due to poor diet/nutrition.
Things he must do: Restrict & avoid refined sugars, high carbohydrate foods, practice, avoid dairy products like milk and yogurt, avoid food made with white flour [breads, crackers, etc].
My 2 cents worth on diets; What your husbands must do is follow diabetes nutritional guidelines, aka proper nutrition. Proper nutrition means to accentuate the positive when it comes to food. I dislike the word diet. “Diet” implies a rigorous, self-sacrificial discipline that’s doomed to fail. Instead, focus on achieving food goals of what you should eat each day rather than what you shouldn’t eat.
t fast (have not eaten for 8 hours or more), you must had a random glucose test done. they do have guidelines to tell what number is high. if your glucose level came up to be a bit above normal then you might be considered prediabetic. prediabetes means you you have a chance of being diabetic if you didn't change your eating habits, exercise and so on. If you start to incorporate healthy lifestyles, then you would have a chance of being normal again. hope this helps!
A reading of 6.5 or higher is considered diabetes. Hope this helps. You seem fine by these guidelines.
avoid refined sugars, practice and adhere to weight control, do some sort of exercise daily, practice stress management, and get adequate sleep. These are all important in managing this illness, the most important, along with proper nutrition, is physical activity. The latter helps maintain proper blood pressure levels too.
Besides watching sugar in your diet-- you also need to watch carbohydrates [starches] carefully too.
You never had a risk of contracting HIV and didn't need testing.
The new guidelines were published in January of this year stating that 39-41 weeks is full term. That's from the ACOG who determine best practice guidelines for American medical care in obstetrics and gynecology.
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