Diabetes

Diabetes is a disease that can be acquired through bad eating habits or by genetic factors in the case, people who are born with the disease. It is a disease that needs to have strict care, as there usually manifest only through examinations. Also, masking some diseases that may exist. It is a silent disease that is taking care of the whole body and all organs weakening.
Treatment
The individual with diabetes coexist with the disease throughout their lives. For this interaction occurs is adapted so important that he and the people that surround you seek to know as much as possible about the disease. It is also important that the individual seeks to develop their self-knowledge, not only in relation to the pattern of fluctuation and reactions of your blood glucose before the various factors that can change it, but also about the reactions of your body as a whole to the various demands of life daily.
The self-monitoring of glucose levels is the most important resource for obtaining self-knowledge in diabetes. It can be done through urine, but this method is limited. The most efficient way is by means of a drop of blood obtained from the fingertips. Several miniaturized systems composed of strips reagents, apparatus for the drop of blood, devices for reading the strip, gauges etc. Easily found on the specialized market, low cost and simple operation. Where to use the self-monitoring of blood glucose should be periodically confront the test result with a dosage made in the laboratory at the same time, to make sure the results are reliable. One should also remember that the rates of urine ketones are also monitorable by cops and that this is a feature that every diabetic patient interested in care should have on hand to use in special situations.
Prevention
The best way to prevent the complications of diabetes is to keep blood glucose levels as close as possible to the normal variation and maintain a healthy lifestyle. This is called primary prevention of complications.
There are tests capable of assessing whether the control of glucose levels is satisfactory in the long term: glycosylated hemoglobin, fructosamine or glycated proteins in the blood. If such dosages are within the normal range, it is concluded that the saturation of glucose in all areas of the body also is. However, if the perfect control of blood sugar level can not be maintained all the time for some reason, one should always keep in mind that any degree of effort in this direction will be helping to reduce the appearance of complications.
There is another way to prevent the complications of diabetes, exercising what is conventionally called secondary prevention. This includes a periodic monitoring of the sectors of the organism more prone to complications and corrective action at the slightest sign of trouble.
It is in this sense that the treatment of diabetes, besides efforts to maintain the glucose levels well controlled, should involve examination of the fundus to check the retina, kidney function, sensitivity and how to support the feet and the state of the circulation in various segments of the organism, among others. Some examples of preventive measures taken when one perceives the beginning of a complication of diabetes that periodic surveillance are: applying laser beams on the retina, the foot care (daily inspection, skin and nail care, proper footwear and socks, insoles Special etc.), the use of drugs for renal and circulatory, for hypertension or excess blood fats and even surgeries to redo the movement in a specific organ.
In short, to live a healthy and without problems, individuals with diabetes should exert all his efforts a task that everyone should fulfill, but which for him is even more important: look up!