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Preventing Disease Through Diabetes Counseling Beneficial For Patients

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.

There are many reasons why people die from this health ailment because they not have the proper knowledge behind the ailment. And most do not visit their doctors for diabetes counseling. Consequently the disease goes undetected for years until serious ailments suddenly show on the body.

As a result many patients go through several medical examinations. Undoubtedly imperative individuals who doubt they are suffering from this should check with their GP. In short sufferers from this do not know when they have the disease, but only after it is beyond prevention that they begin to take action.

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.

Other combinations of conditions and complications are hypoglycemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular diseases, heart attacks, stroke, eye problems and blindness, diseases in kidney, and amputation. Besides that there are four test that patient undergoes to determine whether they are a candidate. And these are A1C, FPG, OGTT, and Casual.

The first three test is used to measure and diagnose the presence of sugar in blood. Each of these test have unique ways of determining abnormal levels and processes in body. OGTT would determine how glucose is being processed. Patients are asked to fast for several hours or a day before the actual FPG test. And the A1C is used to understand the levels of glucose present from the last three months.

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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