Preventing Disease Through Diabetes Counseling Beneficial For Patients

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.

Juvenile refers to patients who are insulin dependent usually developed during childhood and teenage years but develops at any point in life. However adult onset develops after age thirty five, but there is an increasing number of younger individuals developing type 2, and this is called non insulin dependent. Hence it is necessary for patients seek their general practitioner for diabetes counseling, so they can take action before the disease becomes worse.

Patients are classified under two categories. Patients who suffer from lack of insulin production and those who produce insulin, but their cells body are resistant to the insulin. Detecting it inside at an early time help prevent the development of increased risk for the patients.

There are at least four test that help determines a patient is a candidate. There is the A1C, OGTT, Casual, and FPG and all these must be conducted within a clinical setting that is private and sterile. More over a doctor often repeats these test again, but if two different test show that the clients sugar levels are very high then a second test is no longer needed.

Prediabetes symptoms often go undetected because they rarely appear. And most victims move on with life not knowing they have any of these. So regular symptoms might not show, but high risk complications such as numbing of the hands and foot, ketones and ketoacidosis, nephropathy, increased high blood pressure, gastroparesis, stroke, and HHNS occur instead.

Therefore the risk of having diabetes not only causes death, but involves other combinations of complications that if the main problem is not taken care of at an earlier period. Then later these will spread through other areas of the body, and it might worsen the disease. Thus it is essential that getting a medical assessment is better than nothing at all.

Understanding the diagnostic procedures and its purpose is important. Because determining the level of sugar in the body is one factor that tells a patient if they have diabetes or not. The A1C diagnoses your body through measuring the average blood glucose level from the last two to three months.

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.

And the casual test happens to patients who are diagnosed with severe diabetes. And this is often conducted any time of the day for several times. Consequently it is necessary for individuals to meet with their primary health carer to discuss these test.




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