How is Diabetes Treated?
The answer to the question, “How is diabetes treated?” which is asked by many individuals who are newly diagnosed with diabetes is a common question. It first depends on what Type of diabetes you have and how severe it is. If you have Type 1 diabetes it’s thought to be an autoimmune disease which destroys your insulin producing cells within your pancreas. That means you need insulin injections every day. Whereas the treatment of Type 2 diabetes can fluctuate from controlling it with your diet, taking pills or needing insulin injections.
Treating Type 1 Diabetes involves injections of insulin to bring the blood sugar levels down to a healthy and normal level. With Type 1 Diabetes a person may take insulin shots daily for the rest of their life. Treatment also involves self-monitoring of your insulin and blood sugar levels.
Treating Type 2 Diabetes “can be” much simpler. While medications may be prescribed, it is possible to lower your blood sugar levels naturally by exercising and eating healthy foods. Which in turn causes you to loose the weight and gain control over your blood sugar levels. Now in the case of my dad who is naturally skinny, he had to learn to control what he ate to stop his high sugar levels.
If you do need insulin injections, the needle is very tiny and injecting yourself everyday is manageable. All my aunts and uncles on my dad’s side have to do it everyday!
How is Diabetes treated, is now a question you have to ask your doctor. Like I said, it all depends on the type of diabetes you have and how well your body is responding to different treatments.
It can also be noted that exercise and diet is also another factor that is important in maintaining health for people with Type 2 Diabetes. However in the case of Type 1 Diabetes it is extremely rare that diet and exercise is all you need. More often than not you need your insulin shots no matter what, because the issue is not that your body is producing too much glucose, it is that your insulin producing cells are being destroyed and needs to get that insulin from an external source. Hence the treatment of insulin shots.
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