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Alternative Treatment of Diabetes

Treatment of diabetes can include many items. Traditional treatment can be combined with complementary and alternative therapies.

Treatment, which was not classified as standard, is considered an additional and alternative. These treatments cover a variety of disciplines, which include everything – from diet and exercise to mental health and lifestyle changes. Examples include acupuncture, relaxation by placing the image, chiropractic, yoga, hypnosis, clinical monitoring, aromatherapy, Continue reading »

When switching to insulin in diabetes mellitus type II

On insulin therapy of type II diabetes become subject to the following indications:

The ineffectiveness of diet and maximum dose glucose-lowering medicaments, resulting in recording the following parameters: НbА1с > 7,5 %.

Fasting glucose> 8 mmol / liter.

The appearance of acute complications of diabetes.

On insulin also mapped by the need for surgery (this is usually Continue reading »

Advantages and disadvantages of different methods of insulin therapy

INTENSIVE INSULIN THERAPY.

Advantages of intensive insulin therapy:

Achieved with the most effective compensation of diabetes mellitus;

Increases significantly during the disease, which takes place without complications, increase life expectancy;

Reduced risk of cardiovascular complications compared with conventional treatment;

Basal-bolus method simulates the activity of the pancreas. At the same basal insulin provides a permanent body’s need for insulin, bolus – peak loads associated Continue reading »

Diabetic foot Syndrome

Diabetic foot syndrome – is a collective term that represents the totality of foot disease in diabetes mellitus. All these diseases are associated with lesions of the skin, soft tissues, bones and joints. They are manifested in the form of venous ulcers, skin-articular changes and necrotic processes. This is due to arise on the background of diabetes and neurological disorders, reduced trunk blood flow in the arteries of the lower limbs of varying severity.

This syndrome occurs in each 8-10th of a patient with diabetes mellitus, and every second is at risk. In diabetes mellitus type II, this syndrome develops in 10 times more frequent than in type I diabetes and may occur at the outset of the disease (and sometimes the first sign of Continue reading »

Where to inject insulin

inject-insulinSubcutaneous insulin injections are doing in those parts of the body where there is subcutaneous fat: the abdomen, anterior thighs, posterolateral surface of the shoulders, upper buttocks, posterolateral surface of the back above the waist.

WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO CHANGE PLACES INSULIN INJECTION.

If you do the injections in the same place, because of the constant micro-trauma tissue you can form scars, areas of hypo-or hypertrophy of subcutaneous fat. Doctors call these changes lipodystrophy. In order to avoid lipodystrophy need injections at least 1.5 centimeters from each other, and rotate injection sites. One month inject insulin into his shoulder, the next – in the thigh, then – in the stomach and so on. Continue reading »

Popular treatments for diabetes and their development prospects

in treatment of diabetesDepending on the complexity of diabetes can be treated by two basic methods – individual diet and diet in combination with drugs (medication tablets or insulin).

The first major disadvantage of any method of treating diabetes is the inability to cure. In this patient with diabetes almost can not be insured against the occurrence of serious complications, which tend to affect the cardiovascular system bodies.

Scientists are constantly doing research, have significant experience in improving the treatment of diabetes. In the long term this could lead to complete recovery and restoration Continue reading »

Diabetic Nephropathy

Diabetic-NephropathyNephropathy - a disease in which kidney function is disturbed.

Diabetic nephropathy – a kidney, developing due to diabetes mellitus. Renal disease are in the renal tissue, which leads to loss of kidney health.

Diabetic nephropathy is one of the most frequent and dangerous complications of diabetes. Occurs with insulin (40%) and insulin dependent (20-25% of cases) types of diabetes.

Feature of diabetic nephropathy is a gradual and almost asymptomatic development. The first phase of the disease does not cause any discomfort, so often a doctor has already treated in the last stages of diabetic nephropathy, Continue reading »

Hemodialysis Treatment

Hemodialysis-TreatmentHemodialysis Treatment – the process of extrarenal blood purification patients treated for acute and chronic renal failure.

When hemodialysis is removed from the patient’s blood substances with low and medium molecular weight (urea, creatinine, phosphorus, potassium) by diffusion through a semipermeable membrane. A substance with high molecular weight, for example, proteins that do not pass through the membrane and remain in the blood.

The essence of Hemodialysis Treatment.

The method is that the patient’s blood and the dialysis solution is pumped through a semipermeable membrane, with toxic substances from the blood pass Continue reading »

Laser Coagulation

Laser-Coagulation2Laser coagulation is the most effective method of treating eye problems in diabetes.

If laser coagulation is eliminating the causes of retinal detachment, accompanied by a decrease retinal edema, improves blood supply to the retina.

The essence of laser coagulation is that by using a laser retina “welded” to the underlying membranes. This stops its further delamination.

This procedure is carried out-patient, alternately on each eye Continue reading »

Diabetes particular course of chronic disease

Diabetes-particular-course-of-chronic-diseaseTo treat patients with chronic disease diabetes mellitus diet exclusively possible only in those cases where a patient does not lack in weight, with no symptoms of ketosis (the emergence of tangible smell of acetone in the breath) and there is no evidence or records in a card that in the past there were cases of sugar-coma.

When the lung (primary) forms of diabetes, patients need to adjust supply and a small amount of insulin or other sugar-lowering drugs (for a short period of time). Keep in mind one simple rule – the total caloric content of food intake should not exceed the amount of energy Continue reading »

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