After
getting diabetes, do sugar pals often murmur in their hearts: How often should they check their blood sugar? Is there any progress in the disease? Don’t worry, let’s talk about how often to check blood sugar and how to judge the severity of diabetes.
First of all, let’s talk about how often sugar pals should check their blood sugar. This can not be generalized, but depends on the individual’s condition and treatment. If you have just been diagnosed with diabetes, or your blood sugar control is not stable recently, it is better to measure blood sugar several times a day, such as fasting blood sugar, pre-meal blood sugar, two-hour post-meal blood sugar, etc. If the blood sugar is well controlled and the condition is relatively stable, the number of measurements can be reduced appropriately, and fasting blood sugar and two-hour postprandial blood sugar can be measured two or three times a week. For sugar pals who use insulin therapy, blood sugar needs to be measured more frequently, especially when adjusting insulin dosage, blood sugar may need to be tested many times a day, even before and after each meal.
How to judge whether your illness has progressed? This needs to be observed from several aspects. On the one hand, the blood sugar value. If the blood sugar remains high or fluctuates greatly, it means that the disease is progressing. On the other hand, symptoms. If there are blurred vision, numbness of hands and feet, skin itching and other symptoms, it may be the manifestation of diabetic complications, if these complications occur, it means that diabetes is serious.
So, how to judge the severity of diabetes? First, it depends on the control of blood sugar. This is the most basic point. If blood sugar is not well controlled for a long time, the condition is bound to be more serious. Second, check for the presence and severity of complications. The absence of complications is naturally the best situation, and once complications occur, their severity needs to be assessed, for example, the development of diabetic nephropathy to the stage of dialysis, which indicates that the condition is very serious. Third, observe the general state of the body. For example, whether there are other risk factors such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity and so on. If there are these risk factors, the condition of diabetes will be more serious.
Sugar pals should pay close attention to their blood sugar and physical changes, go to the hospital regularly for examination, follow the doctor’s advice and actively treat them. Only in this way can diabetes be better controlled, complications be reduced and quality of life be improved.
