Tag: Insulin

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Measuring blood sugar and pricking fingers hurt? I will teach you seven small ways to handle it easily.

Self-blood glucose monitoring is an important part of diabetes management. Finger blood collection through blood glucose meter to monitor blood glucose has gradually been accepted by people and has become an important part of daily life of diabetes patients. However, the pain caused by repeated finger pricking and the fear brought to diabetic patients often make patients feel at a loss and even have resistance, unwilling to insist on blood sugar monitoring. Is there a what method to relieve this pain? Today Dr. Clove will teach you a few practical methods. 1. Choose the appropriate blood glucose meter On the premise of comprehensively considering accuracy, price and personal special needs, choose a blood glucose meter that requires less blood collection. Read More …

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Please don’t miss the honeymoon without injection or medicine.

Xiao Gao, 36, has just been diagnosed with [type 2 diabetes]. Because of his high blood sugar, I suggested that he take insulin treatment for a period of time. However, he refused to accept insulin treatment because he was afraid that he would not stop using insulin and would be [addicted]. The 40-year-old Liu also suffered from [type 2 diabetes] recently. Different from Xiao Gao, he cooperated with the doctor’s treatment advice very much. After 3 months of insulin treatment, he only needed to control his blood sugar by controlling diet and exercise. After that, Liu entered the honeymoon period of diabetes. What is called “honeymoon period”? Will everyone have a honeymoon? Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes can Read More …

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To Solve the Worries of Elderly Diabetes Patients

Often hear sugar friends sigh: Very not easy to retire, want to enjoy the happiness of their children and grandchildren, but I didn’t expect diabetes to find the door. Don’t be melancholy first, you know, you can also enjoy family happiness as usual if you have diabetes. Today, Dr. Clove invited Lao Wang, a senior patient of diabetes, to tell us about how and diabetes [peaceful coexistence]. Lao Wang, who is it? Lao Wang, who has just passed his seventieth birthday, is a retired professor who has suffered from diabetes for 10 years. Lao Wang’s hobbies are playing chess, walking and Taijiquan. He can sing Beijing opera, compose gymnastics and dance, and is warmly welcomed by the community aunts. He Read More …

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Teach you how to deal with these 6 side effects of insulin injection hand in hand.

Since its inception in 1921, insulin can effectively reduce blood sugar, significantly reduce and delay the occurrence and development of diabetic complications, and has become an essential drug for many sugar lovers. Although insulin has many benefits, there are also some adverse reactions. These adverse reactions are the short board of insulin, which may cause harm to the life of sugar lovers and even their lives. Facing the short board, will you [supplement] it? I. Hypoglycemic Reaction If the blood sugar of diabetic patients is lower than 3.9 mmol/L, it is considered hypoglycemia. This is one of the common short boards of insulin. In most cases, the insulin dose is large, or the insulin in the body is not used Read More …

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Standardize Insulin Injection to Reduce Injection Pain

When insulin is mentioned, the first reaction of most diabetics may be a sharp needle and the accompanying injection pain. In fact, with the exception of a very small number of patients who may feel pain due to abnormal sensitivity, or due to improper operation, needle touching nerve endings and other rare circumstances, most insulin injections are not as painful as everyone imagined. Mastering the correct insulin injection method is helpful to reduce the pain of skin and flesh during insulin injection. Today, Dr. Clove will teach you some tips to relieve the pain of insulin injection. Relax! Relax! Some diabetic patients are nervous and tense before injection. Under such circumstances, they will certainly feel pain. Therefore, we need to Read More …

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Forget to take oral medicine, insulin missed hit, how to do?

For many diabetics, the use of hypoglycemic drugs is a long-term or even a lifetime thing. The fight against diabetes is a protracted war, and it is normal for occasional mistakes. There are always a few times when we may suddenly think of it after dinner, alas, I forgot to take my medicine! It is also possible to find that when your blood sugar rises after meals, you only think of missing insulin. What should I do at such times? Can we mend the fold after a sheep is lost? This requires a flexible response. Today, Dr. Clove will tell you how to forget to take medicine and injections in the treatment of diabetes. Biguanides Representative drug Metformin Drug characteristics Read More …

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Watch out! Hypoglycemia, which is more dangerous than hyperglycemia, these 10 truths must be known.

Many diabetics are very concerned about their blood sugar rise, but they do not know much about hypoglycemia. Today, Dr. Clove sorted out 10 [truths] of hypoglycemia to help people really understand hypoglycemia. Truth 1: Different people have different diagnostic criteria for hypoglycemia, Diabetes patients, especially elderly diabetics, are at greater risk of hypoglycemia than people without diabetes. Therefore, the diagnostic criteria for hypoglycemia in diabetic patients and diabetic patients are different: For non-diabetic patients, the standard of hypoglycemia is blood sugar < 2.8 mmol/L; In diabetic patients, blood sugar < 3.9 mmol/L is hypoglycemia. Truth 2: Hypoglycemia is often more dangerous than hyperglycemia, For the harm of hyperglycemia, everyone is relatively clear and attaches great importance to it. In Read More …

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Some diabetes can not take medicine? What’s going on?

As we all know, diabetes is a [lifelong disease]. With diabetes, many friends will have to deal with various hypoglycemic drugs and insulin needles from now on. However, there are also some sugar friends who are relatively [lucky] and can control their blood sugar well without taking medicine or injections. Who can take no injection or medicine? Come and have a look with Dr. Clove. Some diabetics may not take drugs. Indeed, some diabetics do not take medicine or injections, and their blood sugar is well controlled. Generally, the following situations are included. 1. Type 2 diabetes patients who have just acquired diabetes and adjusted their lifestyle to reach the goal of blood sugar control. If diabetes is mild and Read More …

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Can diabetics eat fruit?

As an extremely harmful and deceptive pseudoscientific conclusion, [diabetic patients cannot eat fruits] is widely circulated in the society. I once received a representative diabetic patient who has not touched fruits for more than ten years. His logical deduction is very simple: cannot eat sweets + fruits are very sweet and cannot eat fruits. The poor ten years or so are personal tragedies and dereliction of duty in diabetes health education. In the Internet era, the high-speed dissemination of information is a double-edged sword. As a doctor, one must use this sword well to make and transmit scientific voices. Glycemic index (GI) Assuming that we organized all the food to take an examination, The test question is the ability of Read More …

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Can [100,000] Insulin Pumps Save Little Girls Who Inject Needles into Them?

On the evening of November 28, 2014, @ CCTV News Released Such a Microblog: [[Girls Suffer from Diabetes Inject Drugs for 3 Years] Avoid Students, Use alcohol to disinfect needles, lift clothes, prick needles… 11-year-old girl Xiaoyu injected four needles of insulin every day after finding out diabetes 3 years ago. Small belly is a needle eye. Doctors said Xiaoyu if you can take advantage of the insulin pump installed during development, you don’t need to give injections every day, and it may be cured, but poor families can’t afford more than 100,000 installation fees. Help children! ] Soon, the media forwarded it one after another, attracting everyone’s attention. In this news, the reporter hopes to let more people know Read More …