Four Principles of Anti-sugar in the Diabetes Era

To manage your blood sugar well, diabetic patients must spend time learning diabetes knowledge, receiving diabetes education, and doing self-management. These all take time, and controlling your diet also requires perseverance. Have you achieved these four new principles in the diabetes era? ?

Have diabetes knowledge
What people with diabetes need most is diabetes knowledge. Some people think that if you have diabetes, just go to the hospital and get prescribed some medicine. That’s what people who don’t understand diabetes say.

To manage diabetes well, you must learn about diabetes. For example: which foods are suitable to eat, which foods are not suitable to eat, which foods raise blood sugar quickly, which foods raise sugar slowly, which foods are high in calories, and which foods are high in sugar;

What kind of exercise is suitable, when is the appropriate time to exercise, how long should you exercise, and what should you pay attention to during exercise;

How to prevent hypoglycemia, how to measure blood sugar, how to buy test strips, which blood glucose meter is better, and which test strips are cheaper?

The action time of the drug, its characteristics, when is the appropriate time to take it, and what to do if there are adverse reactions;

Diabetes is a highly personalized disease, and doctors only play a supporting role. The only person who can truly control diabetes is our patients. There are 8,760 hours a year, and we need to use diabetes knowledge to manage diabetes ourselves.

Do you have knowledge about diabetes?

Have the ability to self-manage
There is knowledge about diabetes, but if you don’t act on the knowledge, it’s useless. If you can't keep your mouth shut, move your legs, or monitor your blood sugar, then no one can manage diabetes well.

Diabetes is a lifelong disease that cannot be cured, but complications can be avoided or delayed through self-management. The management of diabetes is a lifelong matter, which requires perseverance and persistence. It is easy to persist for a day, a month, or a year, but it is rare to persist for a lifetime.

People who do not have the ability to self-manage diabetes, or are unwilling to self-manage, will eventually be unable to avoid complications. This is a scientific rule, and no one is exception.

Do you have the ability to self-manage diabetes?

Have a doctor who is familiar with your condition
For diabetic patients, if there are no complications, there is no need for famous doctors and experts. What you really need is a doctor who can take care of you and be familiar with your condition.

Doctors in famous hospitals are very busy and have many patients. They have no time to follow up with you after diagnosis. After prescribing the medicine, the doctor doesn’t know how effective it is. The doctor will only see you when you go for follow-up consultation, but he basically doesn’t know. Can't remember either.

If you can't find such a doctor, you can find a diabetic friend who knows how to manage diabetes to be your peer support.

Diabetes is not an easy road, and controlling blood sugar is not that easy. If you have done all you can with diet and exercise, but your blood sugar situation is still not ideal, then ask yourself, do you have a doctor who is familiar with your condition? Do you have any diabetic friends who know how to manage diabetes?