Treatment for Adult-onset Diabetes

26 May, 2009 No Comment

Exercising Regularly

Everybody should perform exercises for keeping fit all the time. It is all the more important for diabetics, as it helps keep their blood glucose levels under control. Prior to starting your exercise, you must prepare a plan detailing the exercises that you want to perform and get your doctor’s approval for this plan.

There are a large number of exercises such as aerobics, swimming, walking, biking, etc. available for you to choose. It is important that you choose the ones that you enjoy the most. It is also important that stretching as well strength training be a part of your exercise regimen. If you have been inactive for a long time, start exercising slowly and build up over a period of time. Physical exercises lower the blood glucose levels; check your sugar levels before you start exercising.

Diabetes Medications/Insulin Therapy

Some diabetics manage to control their blood glucose level only through diet and physical exercise. Others require medications/ insulin therapy.

Diabetes medications

Diabetes medicines function in the following ways:

1. Some medicines excite your pancreas, thereby producing more insulin and releasing it.

2. Some other medicines suppress the glucose production as well as release from your liver, thereby reducing the sugar to be transported to the cells.

3. Others stop the enzymes in your stomach from breaking down the carbohydrates or make the tissues insulin-sensitive.

Since there is a direct correlation between diabetes and heart disease, you might have to take a small dose of medication to prevent diseases connected with the heart and blood vessels.

Insulin therapy

Some people having adult-onset diabetes require insulin therapy in addition to medications. This is mainly due to the fact that the stomach enzymes meddle with the insulin taken orally. Such people have to be given insulin through injection.

The following are the options available for injecting insulin into your body:
1. Diabetic insulin syringes
2. Diabetic insulin injection pens
3. Diabetic insulin pumps

The insulin syringe consists of a syringe and fine needle, whereas an insulin injection pen resembles an ink pen having insulin cartridges.

The insulin pump looks like a cell phone and contains a reservoir of insulin.

From this reservoir a tube is connected to your abdomen with a catheter.

The pump automatically supplies the body’s required quantity of insulin. This can be programmed to deliver as per your requirement.