How To Cope with Diabetes

Diabetes – A Global Epidemic

Diabetes has become an epidemic and it is not just affecting one country, but it is affecting people from the entire globe. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the total number of diabetics will touch a 240 million worldwide by 2010.

• If Diabetes is left uncontrolled, it can lead to the following complications: · Retinopathy· Renal failure

  · Nervous disorders

  · Diabetic coma

  · Caludication

  · And lot more.

Types of Diabetes

Diabetes can be classified as:

• Type 1 diabetes: Due to the inability of the body to produce insulin.

• Type 2 diabetes: Due to discontinuity in the production of insulin.
• Gestational diabetes: Manifests in pregnant woman but disappears after child birth.
• Juvenile diabetes- Type 1 is usually diagnosed at a younger age, mostly during childhood. This is because the pancreas stops to function at an early age.

Symptoms

• Urinating frequently
• Extreme hunger
• Weakness
• Irritability
• Nausea and/or Vomiting
• Blurred Vision
• Tingling or Numbness in Legs, Feet, or Fingers
• Frequent Infections
• Itching of Skin or Genitals
• Slow Healing of Cuts and Bruises.

Management of Diabetes

In Type I diabetes patients are administered insulin artificially by hypodermic needle syringes.

Type II diabetes- Diabetic medications along with modification in life style and diet is used. In advanced cases of Type II diabetes, artificial insulin administration could be prescribed.

Diabetics and Nutritionist

In both cases of diabetes, high-fiber low-carbohydrate diet is prescribed. Starvation in diabetic patients can be life threatening leading to hypoglycemia or even hypoglycemic shock. They are always recommended to carry a candy with them so that they can consume it when they are fatigued due to sudden decline in blood sugar.

Diet is the most important aspect of Diabetes. Diabetics require a balanced diet and the combination of recipes will be provided by the nutritionist. Starving is never a healthy way to bring down blood glucose. The body still requires its dosage of glucose.

The following points are helpful in controlling diabetes:

• Regulate your meals with a high-fiber low-carbohydrate diet.
• Vitamin A, D, E, K and B complex vitamins appropriate dosage.
• Do not binge; eat lot of fruits and vegetables, and not burgers and fries!
• Stress increases the blood glucose level, therefore practice mind relaxation techniques.
• Some of the alternate treatment methods like acupressure and related reflexology treatments are said to be of some benefit in controlling diabetes.
• Increased intake of vegetable soups and salads. A soup or salad before a meal quenches your appetite and it will reduce your craving for sugar.
• Avoid tobacco and alcohol.
• Have 8 hours of sleep a day.

The first thing that can affect anyone who has been diagnosed with diabetes is psychological shock and depression. Diabetes is manageable with diet and proper care. The disease can seem alarmingly fearful and coping with diabetes can be scary when you are diagnosed for the first time. It is better you talk to a psychiatrist so that you feel you are not trapped by an uncontrollable disease condition. After you are convinced, with some lifestyle and dietary changes you are back to normal. No panic.

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