Tips for healthy diabetes management

Posted by Arvi Rizvi Roy on July 31st, 2019

You need not worry when you hear, “Your blood sugar level is a little high!” It is very common tofeel astounded, miserable, or annoyed when you are living with diabetes.You are the one who is responsible for your own health. You can always learn to manage it. Read on to learn more about diabetes symptoms, complications, healthy tips to manage diabetes and diabetes treatment.

Diabetes symptoms

Diabetes symptoms that can be commonly seen are as follows.

• Have less energy
• Being tired and thirsty
• Need to pass urine more often
• Slow healing process
• Increased skin or bladder infections

Complications

The following complications may arise out of diabetes.

• Cataract
• Glaucoma
• Blindness
• Non-healing wounds
• Boilswhich is a severe boil or multiple boil in the skin
• Loss of sensation – tingling and numbness
• Cellulitis – an inflammation of body tissue especially below the skin
• Gangrene (localised death and decomposition of body tissue)
• Candidiasis (infection with candida, especially causing oral or vaginal thrush)
• Decreased sexual drive or libido
• Renal failure (kidney failure)

Healthy tips to manage diabetes

Keep your diabetes under control which will eventually help you to prevent heart, nerve and foot problems. Let’s have a look at some of the healthy tips which you can use to help you manage your diabetes.

• Cut down on added sugar: Cutting down sugar can be really hard at the beginning. So small practical swaps are a good starting point when you are trying to cut down on excess sugar. Trading off sugary drinks, energy drinks and fruit juices with water, plain milk, or tea and coffee without sugar can be a good start.
• Choose healthier carbohydrates: All carbs affect blood glucose levels so it’s important to know which foods contain carbohydrates. Pick out the healthier foods that contain carbs and be aware of your portion sizes.
• Lose additional weight: Moving toward a healthy weight helps control blood sugars. Choose recipes with less saturated fat. Perhaps skip that cream sauce and look for thin cuts of meat, low-fat dairy and vegetable sources of protein like beans or nuts.
• Regular exercise: Exercising regularly can help you reach or maintain a healthy weight. Exercise also cuts stress and helps control blood pressure and cholesterol.
• Get enough sleep: When you are sleep-deprived, you tend to eat more and you can put on weight which leads to health problems.
• Havea smaller amount of salt: Eating lots of salt can increase your risk of high blood pressure which in turn increases risk of heart diseases and stroke. And when you have diabetes, you are already more at risk of all these conditions.
• Manage stress: Stress and diabetes don’t mix at all! Excess stress can elevate blood sugar levels.

Diabetes treatment

Homeopathic diabetes treatment, along with the intake of hypoglycaemic drugs and insulin, can prevent the progression and complications of diabetes. Homeopathic medicines administered on time help maintain insulin levels and taking conventional anti-diabetic drugs at the minimum dosage possible could allow one to gradually taper the dose and also discontinue them later.

Conclusion

Take care of yourself and your diabetes which will help you feel good today and in the future. When your blood sugar level is close to normal, you are likely to have more energy, be less tired and thirsty, need to pass urine less often, heal better, and have decreased skin or bladder infections. You will have less chance of having health problems caused by diabetes such as heart attack or stroke, eye problems that can lead to trouble seeing or going blind, pain or numbness in your hands and feet which is called nerve damage, kidney problems that can cause your kidneys to stop working, and teeth and gum problems.