How Patients Benefit From Diabetes Counseling To Improve Their Health

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.

Beside prediabetes symptoms do not always occur, so the disease goes undetected until such time that the patient can already feel these symptoms too much. However seeking out your primary health care practitioner will help you detect these ailments early on. And diagnoses are often repeated twice in a sterile clean environment such as a clinical laboratory or the office of a doctor.

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.

Four test that is conducted so a doubtful patient must undergo to determine the validity of their disease. These are FPG, OGTT, A1C, and Casual each of these have their own unique purpose to help doctors diagnose and determine if abnormal levels of blood glucose is present in the body. Furthermore individuals who have noticed differences in their body whether it is through their weight or eyesight consulting a health care professional would increase the chances of preventing difficult complications from occurring.

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.

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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