Reason Why Diabetes Counseling Improves The Well Being Of Patients

By Gregory Powell


Diabetes is one of the major cause that leads to death. In 2010 alone there were sixty nine thousand and seventy one deaths that were caused by it alone. And another hundred thousand estimated that listed it as one contributor to death.

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.

Patients are classified under two categories. Patients who suffer from lack of insulin production and those who produce insulin, but their cells body are resistant to the insulin. Detecting it inside at an early time help prevent the development of increased risk for the patients.

Furthermore these signs might not even appear especially for sufferers of type two. Another reason sufferers should check with a health care professional and undertake test to determine whether there is a high presence of blood glucose. However test are repeated to reconfirm the levels, but when two different test results to positive outcomes there will be no second test again.

Prediabetes symptoms often go undetected because they rarely appear. And most victims move on with life not knowing they have any of these. So regular symptoms might not show, but high risk complications such as numbing of the hands and foot, ketones and ketoacidosis, nephropathy, increased high blood pressure, gastroparesis, stroke, and HHNS occur instead.

Therefore the risk of having diabetes not only causes death, but involves other combinations of complications that if the main problem is not taken care of at an earlier period. Then later these will spread through other areas of the body, and it might worsen the disease. Thus it is essential that getting a medical assessment is better than nothing at all.

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.

In general these test measures the level of sugar present in body. However with A1C these studies the levels between the last 2 and three months. While the fpg test measures the glucose levels when you are fasting. And the OGTT test is done once you drink a special formulated drink that is sweet, but this test tells the doctor how body processes the glucose.

Because diabetes two does not develop immediately even if there is the presence of prediabetes in the body already. When early treatment happens then the levels usually return to normal. Losing at least ten to fifteen pounds would safely keep you away from developing diabetes in the future.




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