1. Learn about diabetes.
The Diabetes Foundation, the Spanish civil society, stresses the importance of the role of educator of diabetes and is an essential tool for self-management as an instrument to facilitate treatment and metabolic control.
2. Adapt power.
Eating is a key part of diabetes control and helps prevent or prevent complications from occurring. It's similar to any person: 3 and 5 shots, according to personal characteristics and treatment (breakfast, mid-morning, lunch, snack and dinner), with carbohydrates or foods that absorb rapidly, glucose increases significantly. You do not need to talk about food and quantity types, without taking any physical activity, whether you have medication, whether you suffer from cholesterol or other hypertension, so you should be personalized.
3. Maintain proper hydration.
People with diabetes have dehydrated their risk because of high blood glucose levels in the kidneys. Therefore, when hyperglycaemia occurs, it is more thirsty. Water must be based on people's hydration in diabetes. Other drinks include natural juices or sugar derivatives, sugars with "sugar" or "zero" sugars instead of sugar, and therefore do not increase blood glucose, sports drinks or infusions, but occasionally.
4. Exercise regularly.
Physical exercise practice combines complications such as blood pressure, cholesterol and cardiovascular function. Exercise and type of intensity must be adjusted according to the age and physical condition of each diabetic person.
5. Make glucose checks frequently and structurally.
A person or a family member can study blood glucose levels to detect at any time the level of blood glucose and detect possible acute complications such as hypoglycemia (low blood glucose) or hyperglycaemia (glucose uptake). It is recommended to carry out controls of 5 to 6 days before each meal and, in general, to relate insulin or treatment in a convenient way and, if necessary. If you do exercises, it is recommended to take a study before starting the activity, while some additional measurements are performed during long term exercise and once it has finished.
6. Get fast in the face of hypoglycaemia.
It is common to eat hypoglycaemia without control and without attitudes. This means that carbohydrates are more than those indicated in grams, that is, because it is later a recovery or hyperglycemia cause.
7. Avoid Diabetes Complications.
It is important to keep blood glucose levels in the best possible way before and after meals. Also, blood pressure and cholesterol levels should be monitored.
8. Do ophthalmological reviews.
It is imperative that people with diabetes perform periodic checkups, especially in the retina, to predict, detect and treat any type of rule.
9. Take care of your feet.
People with diabetes may have changes in sensitivity and circulation. It is important that you check your feet daily for the absence of injury and visit the podiatrist.
10. Do not let or change medication intake.
Medications are another basis for treatment, so the recommendations you have to follow. Insulin type 1 is a pharmacological basis for treating diabetes and oral drugs and / or type 2 diabetes insulin.
More information on fundaciondiabetes.org