Sunday, February 28, 2016

How Patients Benefit From Diabetes Counseling To Improve Their Health

By Gregory Powell


Diabetes affects many people from all ages. There are two types of diabetes called type one and type 2. Type one is called juvenile while the other one is adult onset diabetes.

Diabetes is the leading cause of death and in 2010 alone there was a reported number of sixty nine thousand death certificates that claimed it was the cause of death. And another two hundred thousand more that pointed to this as a factor. As a result it is important for people to visit regularly their family doctors for diabetes counseling to detect early signs.

However if left untreated often increases the risk for serious health complications to arise. Also it is important to address the common signs and symptoms for early detection. The following is symptoms and signs of this such as frequent urination, feeling thirsty and hungry all the time, intense fatigue, foggy vision, open wounds take longer time to heal, weight loss for type one sufferers, and numbing and tingling sensation around the extremities for type two.

Complications such as foot numbing, ketoacidosis and ketones, disease in the kidney, elevated blood pressure, stroke, gastroparesis, and HHNS or hyperosmolar hyperglycemic and nonketotic syndrome. But typical symptoms such as slow healing of open wounds, foggy vision, acute fatigue, frequently peeing, constantly hungry and thirsty. But these signs do not always appear in many people especially for those who have type two diabetes.

Symptoms for prediabetes always go undetected and patients who suffer from these do not often know it. But only after these high level complications such as gastroparesis, nephropathy, stroke, HHNS, and others develop in patients seek assessment from their doctors. Sometimes other complications develop in combination with main cause such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, hypoglycemia, CVD, problems with the eye and blindness, and sadly amputation as well.

But if the results from the assessment test show that high levels of blood glucose is present in your test. And a 2nd test is not needed to reconfirm whether you have diabetes or not. But two separate test which both results in positive would dictate that you have one.

Four test that is conducted so a doubtful patient must undergo to determine the validity of their disease. These are FPG, OGTT, A1C, and Casual each of these have their own unique purpose to help doctors diagnose and determine if abnormal levels of blood glucose is present in the body. Furthermore individuals who have noticed differences in their body whether it is through their weight or eyesight consulting a health care professional would increase the chances of preventing difficult complications from occurring.

Fasting plasma glucose exam is conducted after you have not eaten or drink other fluids except water for the last eight hours prior to the test. This test is usually conducted in the morning prior to breakfast. A normal FPG level often results to lesser than 100 mg per dl. Another is the oral glucose tolerance test which is a two hour test that examines the level of blood glucose before and within 2 hours once you drink a sweet special formula drink. This shows the doctor how the patients body can process glucose.

The casual test or random plasma glucose test occurs several times in a day and only when patients have severe diabetes symptoms that this test is conducted. More over type two sufferers always have prediabetes symptoms that show abnormally high levels of glucose present in the blood. Hence patients should seek professional help before it is too late.




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