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11-24-2007, 04:29 AM
Treatment
There is no cure for diabetes. The immediate goals are to stabilize your blood sugar and eliminate the symptoms (http://www.healthfactsinfo.com/category/diseases-symptoms) of high blood sugar. The long-term goals of treatment are to prolong life, relieve symptoms, and prevent long-term complications such as heart disease and kidney failure.
Diet
Type 2 diabetics should follow a well-balanced and low-fat diet. Weight management is important to achieving control of diabetes. Some people with type 2 diabetes can stop medications after losing excess weight, although the diabetes is still present.
Oral Medication
The bodies of people with type 2 diabetes make insulin but cannot use it effectively. type 2 diabetes may respond to treatment with exercise, diet, and/or oral medications. There are several oral hypoglycemic agents that lower blood glucose in type 2 diabetes.
Oral hypoglycemic agents are not known to be safe for use in pregnancy; women who have type 2 diabetes and take these medications may be switched to insulin during pregnancy and while breast-feeding.
type II diabetes mellitus ( http://www.healthknow.info/diagnostics_diabetes.asp)
There is no cure for diabetes. The immediate goals are to stabilize your blood sugar and eliminate the symptoms (http://www.healthfactsinfo.com/category/diseases-symptoms) of high blood sugar. The long-term goals of treatment are to prolong life, relieve symptoms, and prevent long-term complications such as heart disease and kidney failure.
Diet
Type 2 diabetics should follow a well-balanced and low-fat diet. Weight management is important to achieving control of diabetes. Some people with type 2 diabetes can stop medications after losing excess weight, although the diabetes is still present.
Oral Medication
The bodies of people with type 2 diabetes make insulin but cannot use it effectively. type 2 diabetes may respond to treatment with exercise, diet, and/or oral medications. There are several oral hypoglycemic agents that lower blood glucose in type 2 diabetes.
Oral hypoglycemic agents are not known to be safe for use in pregnancy; women who have type 2 diabetes and take these medications may be switched to insulin during pregnancy and while breast-feeding.
type II diabetes mellitus ( http://www.healthknow.info/diagnostics_diabetes.asp)