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Preventing Disease Through Diabetes Counseling Beneficial For Patients

By Gregory Powell


Diabetes affects many people from all ages. There are two types of diabetes called type one and type 2. Type one is called juvenile while the other one is adult onset diabetes.

Juvenile refers to patients who are insulin dependent usually developed during childhood and teenage years but develops at any point in life. However adult onset develops after age thirty five, but there is an increasing number of younger individuals developing type 2, and this is called non insulin dependent. Hence it is necessary for patients seek their general practitioner for diabetes counseling, so they can take action before the disease becomes worse.

Patients are classified under two categories. Patients who suffer from lack of insulin production and those who produce insulin, but their cells body are resistant to the insulin. Detecting it inside at an early time help prevent the development of increased risk for the patients.

There are at least four test that help determines a patient is a candidate. There is the A1C, OGTT, Casual, and FPG and all these must be conducted within a clinical setting that is private and sterile. More over a doctor often repeats these test again, but if two different test show that the clients sugar levels are very high then a second test is no longer needed.

Beside prediabetes symptoms do not always occur, so the disease goes undetected until such time that the patient can already feel these symptoms too much. However seeking out your primary health care practitioner will help you detect these ailments early on. And diagnoses are often repeated twice in a sterile clean environment such as a clinical laboratory or the office of a doctor.

Therefore the risk of having diabetes not only causes death, but involves other combinations of complications that if the main problem is not taken care of at an earlier period. Then later these will spread through other areas of the body, and it might worsen the disease. Thus it is essential that getting a medical assessment is better than nothing at all.

Understanding the diagnostic procedures and its purpose is important. Because determining the level of sugar in the body is one factor that tells a patient if they have diabetes or not. The A1C diagnoses your body through measuring the average blood glucose level from the last two to three months.

Fasting plasma glucose exam is conducted after you have not eaten or drink other fluids except water for the last eight hours prior to the test. This test is usually conducted in the morning prior to breakfast. A normal FPG level often results to lesser than 100 mg per dl. Another is the oral glucose tolerance test which is a two hour test that examines the level of blood glucose before and within 2 hours once you drink a sweet special formula drink. This shows the doctor how the patients body can process glucose.

Because diabetes two does not develop immediately even if there is the presence of prediabetes in the body already. When early treatment happens then the levels usually return to normal. Losing at least ten to fifteen pounds would safely keep you away from developing diabetes in the future.




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