Diabetes is an ever-growing problem that affects the wellness of millions of people. Though your loved one can still enjoy a full and healthy life if you look after their wellbeing and properly manage the disease, sometimes caring for someone with diabetes can feel like a full-time job. Thanks to daily blood sugar monitoring, supporting lifestyle changes, and careful calibration of medicines, as well as the resistance your loved one may make to doing all that is necessary to manage the disease, you have to be more vigilant than ever to ensure that the situation is controlled even while your loved one is having trouble complying with his or her medications and sticking to new lifestyle changes.
Years of high blood sugar levels are what causes nearly all diabetes-related complications, as your organs and tissues are exposed to this sugar, which results in kidney failure, blindness, heart damage, and more. According to says William H. Herman, M.D., MPH, the director of the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Centre at the University of Michigan, ‘It’s now well proven from scientific studies that diabetes control matters, and that better glucose control over years and decades is associated with a reduced risk of complications affecting the eyes, the kidneys, the nerves, and the heart and blood vessels’.
Therefore, you need to help your loved one find the right treatment that will keep his or her blood sugar levels low enough to prevent or delay long-term complications.
The array of medications to choose from come in the form of pills, inhalants, and injected insulin, or you might consider the benefits of a combination of these. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, over half of adults with diabetes take pills or other oral medicines to treat their disease, 12% take pills and inject insulin and 16% take insulin alone. Healthy eating and regular exercise can also help, even if the patient doesn’t lose any weight, and these measures can sometimes even reduce or eliminate your loved one’s dependence on medication. 15% of people with diabetes don’t use any medications at all, perhaps for this reason, though this may be due to a lack of access to good diabetes care and medication. However, Herman says that in most cases, the good news is that there are many choices available and almost anyone who has diabetes should be able to find a treatment that works for them.
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