Tag: Endocrinology Department

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If you want good blood sugar, these practical skills should be known!

1. Drink less sugary drinks. 2. Fruit can still be eaten, just eat it in moderation. 3. It is recommended that you eat fresh fruits instead of freshly squeezed juice. 4. Snacks other than the main meal are recommended to be eaten two hours after or before the meal, not next to the meal time. How and how much do you eat common foods? Try to choose [glycemic index] < 55, higher than this number, you should eat less. Recommended foods include vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans and dairy products. Please see the following articles for details: > > > Calculate your blood sugar load and eat at ease < < < 6. Cooking oil, vegetable oil is better than Read More …

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Are diabetics addicted to insulin?

In the treatment of diabetes, there are too many misconceptions about insulin, and many advertisements for ill-intentioned drugs even sell “farewell to insulin”. Today, Dr. Clove answered all the questions that everyone cared about. Is insulin addictive? Many patients will ask: Will insulin be dependent and addictive? Dr. Clove can responsibly tell you: Insulin itself is a hormone normally secreted by the human body. There is no dependence on insulin. Also not addictive. In some patients with acute pancreatitis, insulin secretion is also affected, and insulin is also needed to control blood sugar during treatment. After the pancreatitis recovers, insulin is no longer needed, which is the best evidence that insulin is not dependent. Insulin is only used in the Read More …

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Top 10 Risks of Poor Control of Blood Glucose

Many people think that controlling blood sugar is only a matter for diabetics. In fact, whether diabetics or not, it is very important to control blood sugar level and avoid large fluctuations in blood sugar. If you eat and drink all the time and let your blood sugar level fluctuate, there will be many adverse effects on your health-these risks will probably exceed your imagination! Hazard 1: Increases the risk of developing diabetes. Measuring the body’s blood sugar level, In addition to the blood glucose level that can reflect the real-time body blood glucose level, There is also glycosylated hemoglobin. Glycosylated hemoglobin can reflect the blood sugar level of the body within 2-3 months. If the postprandial blood sugar level Read More …

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Uric acid is high, what should I do?

Don’t be nervous, don’t be afraid, when we get more familiar with strange things, we will be suddenly enlightened and the feeling of nervousness will disappear. Next, I will introduce hyperuricemia to patients’ friends. Why is uric acid high? If the human body is compared to a factory, Uric acid is like waste from industrial production. How much garbage is piled up in the factory, There are no more than two factors: The rate of waste generation, As well as the speed of garbage disposal. Uric acid is produced from two sources: exogenous and endogenous: Exogenous uric acid is decomposed from purines and the like in food. Eating foods with high purine content, Such as animal viscera, seafood, chicken, duck, Read More …

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How should gout patients exercise?

Long-term persistence in exercise, gout patients can lose weight, return to the ideal figure, blood uric acid also drops. In addition, gout patients through reasonable exercise, not only can enhance the physique, enhance the body’s defense ability, to relieve joint pain, prevent joint contracture and muscle atrophy is also of great benefit. Which exercises are suitable for gout patients? Choose Aerobic Exercise Aerobic exercise is characterized by long duration, It can enhance endurance, Exhaust excess fat, It is not easy to fatigue. Low intensity, long time exercise, It’s basically aerobic exercise, For example, fast walking, jogging, long-distance slow swimming, cycling, dancing, Taijiquan, etc. Avoid anaerobic exercise. Anaerobic exercise is mainly a high-intensity and large-amount exercise in a short period of Read More …

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How does diabetes hurt the kidney?

Kidney is an extremely important organ of human body. There are millions of small blood vessels with filtering function in the kidney, which are jointly responsible for removing metabolic wastes from human blood. Diabetes can damage the function of this filtration system, resulting in renal insufficiency. The damaged kidney can no longer effectively filter out metabolic wastes in blood, eventually leading to kidney disease. How does diabetes cause nephropathy? When we eat and digest protein foods, we will produce a large amount of metabolic waste. In the kidney, a large number of capillaries and small holes in the wall of blood vessels are natural filters, which can effectively filter out metabolic waste and retain beneficial components in blood. As blood Read More …

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Why can’t gout patients drink?

Many patients with gout have such experience: drinking heavily is good, and the toe joints should suffer the next day. After finding out that uric acid is high, doctors will also suggest abstaining from alcohol. Many patients do not understand: arguably, the purine content in wine is not high, why do you need to abstain from alcohol? Declare War on Alcohol Alcohol, especially beer, is the last thing gout patients should provoke. Why does drinking lead to gout attacks? Alcohol enters the body, It needs to be metabolized in liver tissue, Will use a lot of water in the blood, Increases the concentration of uric acid in the blood, Causes uric acid in blood to enter tissues to form crystals, Read More …

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Start the battle to defend blood sugar and let sugar friends move.

As we all know, the [five carriages] of diabetes treatment include diet control, exercise therapy, drug therapy, blood sugar monitoring and diabetes education. In the journey of [blood sugar defense], these treatment measures are indispensable. Among them, exercise therapy is economical and environmentally friendly, and sugar lovers also know the importance of exercise to sugar control. However, not every sugar friend knows how to make a sports plan [private order] according to his own conditions, and even is confused about many details of exercise. In the endocrinology clinic, when I talk about exercise with sugar friends, they always say: “I have to look after children and cook. How can I have time to exercise?” Doctor, I also have coronary heart Read More …

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Hypoglycemia before meals? Could be a sign of diabetes

The onset of type 2 diabetes is slow and the symptoms are hidden. The vast majority of patients do not have typical [hyperglycemia] symptoms such as polyuria, excessive drinking, excessive eating and weight loss. Some patients even see a doctor because of [hypoglycemia] before meals, showing recurrent hypoglycemia symptoms such as hunger, palpitation, shaking hands and cold sweat before meals, which can be relieved after eating. Why do diabetics suffer from preprandial hypoglycemia? Under normal circumstances, After eating, Blood sugar rises, Stimulate insulin secretion. Elevated insulin will quickly shut down the production of endogenous glucose in the liver. At the same time, it also promotes the intake and utilization of glucose by peripheral tissues, so the postprandial blood sugar will Read More …