Diabetes self-monitoring and self-care

Diabetes is a life can not cure the disease, diabetes self-management is very important. Daily life, patients with diabetes should avoid the emotional tension of anxiety, but also the establishment of law, good life, eating habits, do not smoke, do not drink, eat salt and rich in carbohydrates, fats and calories of food.


As litter urine in patients with metabolic disorder, physical weakness, poor immunity, and easily merge various acute and chronic infections. Once infected, not only intractable, but it will also make diabetic condition deteriorated, diabetics should pay particular attention to personal hygiene. Qin bathing, Qin Huanyi, pay attention to oral hygiene. Particularly female patients, it is necessary to maintain regular genital cleansing.


In particular to pay attention to foot health. Diabetic foot is common complication of diabetes, is a loss and nerves, blood vessels, skin, tendons and bones, so to necrosis of a chronic disease. It may even be inspired infection treatment of amputees, to the great majority of patients suffering. Therefore diabetic foot protection is very important. Because diabetes frequently have peripheral neuropathy, patients with the cold, heat, pain, pain felt Insensitive, shoes before check for foreign bodies, daily foot inspection, found a blister, skin cracking, grinding injury , Corn, the corpus callosum, a ditch-yan, Jia Xuan, and so should be promptly dealt with. Can not be used on its own sharp Daojian Xiujiao. Paojiao daily with warm water, the water temperature can not be overheating, to be relaxed comfortable shoes, socks should be soft, breathable and good. Do not cut a toenail too short.


In order to keep blood sugar close to normal levels, diabetic patients should also learn self-monitoring methods. Self-monitoring than the simple method is the determination of urine sugar, using urine sugar test paper on three meals a day ago, before bed check the urine, blood glucose indirectly understand the situation. But the longer course, renal damage or merger of the patients taking certain drugs speaking, this method is not reliable and should be measured regularly to the hospital for blood sugar. In addition to fasting glucose, postprandial glucose monitoring is also important. Conditional can buy Meter, monitoring their meals before and after two hours before bed and the blood glucose fluctuations, blood sugar levels and understanding the relationship between the symptoms and more reasonable to adjust the treatment programme. When accompanied by other acute or a loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms, they should use Niaotong of paper or to the hospital for testing positive Niaotong of whether or not, whether the incidence of diabetes ketosis, in order to receive timely treatment.