Why is Good Diabetes Management Important?
Good diabetes management comes from a good understanding of how your condition effects you.
Understanding diabetes is important for good diabetic control. And good control is essential if you are to minimise the risk of complications.
As we are all individuals it is important to get to know how your diabetes effects you. Does your blood sugar drop dramatically during exercise? Do certain foods make your blood sugar shoot up? Keeping a regular check on your blood glucose levels will give you a good guideline.
Why is this so important?
To remain healthy you need to keep your blood glucose within a certain range. The American Diabetes Association recommends a glucose level of between 5 to 7.2 mmol/l (90–130mg/dl) before a meal and one of less than 10 mmol/l (180 mg/dl) after a meal.
Nothing can take the place of good medical advice and regular check ups with your health care provider, but we hope that the information you will find on Gary's Diabetes Management will go a long way towards helping you understand how to control your diabetes and thus avoid many of the possible complications.
Your responsibility to yourself
Managing your diabetes is extremely important to your health. It is not our intention on this website to handle your diabetic management. You must always seek the advice of a qualified medical professional.
We can only give some advice guidelines related to general diabetic health care. For your specific treatment and medication you must seek the advice of your doctor.
Good management consists of monitoring your blood glucose levels, taking the correct medication, eating a healthy diet and getting regular exercise.
Get tested
If you are at all concerned that you may be diabetic consult your doctor or pharmacist for a blood glucose test. If you have any of the following go to your doctor for diabetes testing:
Feeling hungry all of the time or loss of appetite, excessive thirst and/or excessive urination. Unexplained weight loss (usually in type 1 diabetes) or weight gain (more common in type 2 diabetes.)
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