Some tips to help control diabetes while keeping values below 130 mg / dl fasting and below 180 mg / dl after meals may be:
- Record on a paper the blood sugar values before and after each meal;
- Eat little amount of sweets and always after a meal, making a walk then;
- Do not eat fruit alone, but accompanied with other food, such as yogurt;
- Take walks after meals;
- Do not stay for more than 3 hours without eating.
These tips are simple ways to control type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and even gestational diabetes by preventing sugar from falling too low causing hypoglycaemia or increasing too much causing hyperglycemia.
Learn more about hypo and hyperglycemia in: Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia.
How to control diabetes
Generally, until you regularize your blood sugar values you need to check your fasting blood sugar before and after each meal. When the values are regularized, the doctor, according to the medication, indicates how many times it is necessary to check the blood sugar values, it may be necessary to do so only in the morning or morning and afternoon, for example.
To know what the value of blood sugar is necessary to do a blood test that can be done at home with a device called a meter, which is very important for the health of the diabetic.
To control blood sugar values, the diabetic patient, in addition to feeding with few sugars as the nutritionist advises and taking the medication or insulin according to medical prescription, also has to practice some physical activity, such as walking or swimming, for example.
To learn more about what to eat in diabetes see: What to Eat in Diabetes.
How to control hypoglycemia
To control the hypoglycemia that appears when sugar lowers excessively in the blood, getting below 70 mg / dl, it is necessary to give the patient water with sugar or a glass of orange juice, for example. These foods will make the sugar rise and the individual feel better.
To learn more about what to do to control hypoglycemia see: Hypoglycemia, what to do?
How to control hyperglycemia
To control hyperglycemia, which is excess blood sugar, it is necessary to give the patient the medicine indicated by the doctor to regulate the amount of sugar in the blood and prevent the blood sugar from rising again by decreasing or eliminating the sweets such as cakes, soft drinks, puddings or ice creams from the diet and engage in physical activity such as walking after meals.
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