Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Tipps for diabetes

You miss a tablet? Do not panic! Measure your sugar in the blood or urine. If it is too high, try to push it by eating less or skipped a meal can be. Take the tablet, not a later date.

If you are hypoglycaemic, and have no glucose available, you just drink a soda or a sugary soda. But no diet cola or juices diabetics: in such drinks put no carbs, but only sweeteners that can not increase your sugar content in blood.

Perhaps the diagnosis of diabetes new to you. Then you do not know what it feels like a hypo. Play this situation by the presence of your doctor - so you get a feel for the typical signs, while you lose the fear.
Do not drive hypoglycaemic!

Whether you need tablets or insulin: in the glove compartment of your car you should carry glucose and some biscuits to hand. How to survive a traffic jam or breakdown without hypoglycemia.

Check your car before each sugar in the blood. Immediately stop when you realize during the trip that you are hypoglycaemic. You should not drive more then control. Eat your emergency ration of glucose and wait until your blood sugar level is back to normal. Only then can you proceed. If you are taking only glucose-lowering pill metformin, you can not get hypoglycemia.

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