When we treat diabetes, we all want to spend the least money to achieve the best therapeutic effect.
There are also many friends who think that they can cure diabetes with some special products without taking medicine or injections.
So, do these products that are advertised as hypoglycemic have hypoglycemic effects?
To treat diabetes, can how spend money on the cutting edge and achieve the best therapeutic effect?
Dr. Clove summed up the two-no-five recommendation to help everyone refuse to be trapped and understand sugar control.
Two Don’t
The most worrying thing for Dr. Clove is that everyone has been deceived by all kinds of false propaganda [hypoglycemia], spending money in vain, delaying formal treatment and bringing unnecessary pain and burden to himself and his family.
1. Hypoglycemic health products
Many friends have been asking Dr. Clove about the [curative effect] of various hypoglycemic health care products. Here, we will not analyze the effects of individual health care products one by one. As long as we understand the following truth, we can judge for ourselves.
According to China’s “Food Safety Law”, all health care products cannot publicize [curative effect], that is to say, if you see a [health care product] and say that you can [reduce blood sugar], this is an illegal act. I believe everyone can tell whether to buy such products or not.
The functions of health care products need to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration before they can be labeled, with a total of 27 items. The most relevant function of health care products is [auxiliary hypoglycemia].
Here, I would like to remind you in particular that the meaning of the word [auxiliary] is: it cannot replace drugs.
Moreover, there are many health care products now, and their efficacy research is mostly at the stage of animal experiments, lacking strong evidence of efficacy in population tests. In many cases, these health care products that have not been thoroughly studied have better [auxiliary] effects than none.
Therefore, even if it is a legal health care product approved for listing, we must not expect to control blood sugar simply through health care products. Moreover, these health care products are generally quite expensive, so we don’t need to spend this money to buy that is better than no [auxiliary] effect.
If there are sugar friends who insist on their [not bad money] and want [auxiliary] effects, they can spend money to buy a [peace of mind] under the guidance of regular doctors. However, regular diabetes treatment must not be neglected. Diet, exercise, medication and monitoring are all indispensable.
Otherwise, it is too late to regret becoming the following uncle.
2. Hypoglycemic [folk prescription]
Hypoglycemic [folk prescription] is a worse problem. Many hypoglycemic [folk prescription] play a marginal role in the law and never clearly say that they are drugs, food or health care products. Instead, they come up with a publicity campaign. I believe everyone is familiar with the following words:
This product is pure natural, has no toxic or side effects, protects liver and kidney, protects pancreas, reduces blood sugar, reverses complications, and curs diabetes.
It is not surprising to say that these [folk remedies] have been blown to heaven.
However, because they are worried about the possible side effects of regular hypoglycemic drugs, many sugar lovers prefer these [hypoglycemic folk remedies] and their friends, holding the lucky mentality, they want to [gamble] and hope to cure diabetes through these [folk remedies].
However, we should know that there is no cure for diabetes at the current medical level, and behind these [natural] [hypoglycemic remedies], unknown and uncontrollable risks are often hidden.
In order to achieve [immediate] hypoglycemic effect, these hypoglycemic [folk remedies] actually add western medicines that can quickly hypoglycemic, and these added western medicines have been eliminated due to large clinical side effects. In order to publicize its [pure natural] characteristics, these added western medicines will not be written in the formula.
If you take such [hypoglycemic prescription], your blood sugar will indeed drop, but it is likely to lead to hypoglycemia. I believe every sugar friend knows the harm of hypoglycemia.
This kind of danger, in fact, as long as you think about it carefully, you can avoid it.
5. Recommendation
So, where should we spend our money, which is the wise choice? Diabetes doctors recommend the following good things to add points to everyone’s diabetes treatment. Come and have a look at them quickly.
1. Blood Glucose Meter
Self-blood glucose monitoring is a very important [signpost] in the treatment of diabetes, and the blood glucose meter is our eye when looking at the road. Without the blood glucose meter, the treatment of diabetes is like [blind people walking]. Therefore, it is very important to choose a blood glucose meter with excellent quality and suitable for oneself.
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Step 2: Suitable shoes and socks
Diabetes mellitus may cause vascular and neuropathy, leading to foot pain and numbness. If you accidentally hurt your foot, the wound will be especially difficult to heal. Therefore, sugar lovers need to pay special attention to foot care, and appropriate shoes and socks are especially important.
Suitable shoes should be characterized by wide toes, no extrusion of toes, good air permeability, and flat heels and thick soles that can be tied up.
However, socks and socks should be made of good water absorption and air permeability, soft and warm, light-colored pure wool or cotton, and the sock barrel should be loose.
3. Salt limited spoon, oil control pot and food scale
Many sugar lovers, often troubled by hypertension, hyperlipidemia and overweight and obesity, need to control the amount of oil, salt and food. However, in the dietary treatment of diabetes, it is also necessary to control the amount of food.
The salt-limited spoon is a small quantitative spoon with many sizes. The common 2 g salt-limited spoon is not more than 2 g salt (a spoon refers to a flat spoon, and the part higher than the salt spoon should be removed), which is very intuitive.
Our daily salt limit is 6 g, while sugar lovers with hypertension should limit their daily salt to 5 g.
In this way, if this 2 g salt-limited spoon is used, the amount of salt used by a person for a whole day should not exceed 3 spoons, which can achieve more accurate quantification and is very convenient.
Oil-limited jugs are oil jugs with scales, and the usage amount is marked on the oil jugs according to the number of people.
We need to limit cooking oil to 25 ~ 30 g per day, so if it is a family of three, the amount of oil used for a meal should not exceed 75 ~ 90 g.
Needless to say, food scales can help us to quantitatively control our diet, truly shut up and stabilize our blood sugar.
4. Weighing Scale
Many sugar lovers have the problems of overweight and obesity and need to lose weight. However, some emaciated sugar lovers need to restore their normal weight through reasonable diet and exercise.
Weighing scale can be used to remind us of weight changes and help evaluate long-term therapeutic effects.
Does how evaluate whether his weight is normal? We often use body mass index to measure, body mass index = weight (kg)/square of height (m2). The range of healthy body mass index is 18.5 ~ 23.9, less than 18.5 is emaciation, 24 ~ 27.9 is overweight, and greater than or equal to 28 is obesity.
5. Regular medical examinations
As we all know, the most terrible thing about diabetes is not itself, but its complications.
There are many complications of diabetes, involving multiple organs and tissues, and they are generally irreversible. Therefore, our most important means is prevention. In addition to controlling blood sugar, blood pressure and blood lipid at ordinary times, regular physical examination can help us find the dangerous signals of complications, detect and treat them early, and reduce the pain and financial burden in the future.
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Here to remind everyone, in addition to our own regular to the hospital for a more comprehensive physical examination, everyone can enjoy the basic public health services provided by the state free of charge. These basic public health services are provided by township hospitals, village clinics and community health service centers (stations) around the country.
At present, the state provides the following services to patients over 35 years old with confirmed type 2 diabetes: 4 fasting blood glucose tests per year, at least 4 face-to-face follow-up visits, and 1 more comprehensive health examination per year.