Diabetic Seniors

“Keep on moving. Keep on grooving. Keep on doing till the doing’s done.” As a diabetic, living with guidelines is a part of life; however, it doesn’t mean that life as you once knew it must come to a halt. Rather, you can go about your daily you just need to make a few implementations such as diabetes treatment and some diabetes management guidelines. These 2 changes can be done through the use of diabetes management tips that will be mentioned later.

Depending on how advanced your diabetes are when “discovered”, your lifestyle, and other assorted factors, your doctor has  several diabetes treatment options to choose for you to follow. What these treatments are and the goals of each diabetes treatment are as follows:

Now comes the next step of living with diabetes—management guidelines. As Diabetes is one of the few diseases where daily treatment is primarily up to the patient, it means that you are given much of the diabetes management routine.

There are several options available when it comes to diabetes management—insulin, oral diabetes medication, healthy eating, exercise and even having a positive attitude. Your personal diabetes management guidelines will vary from those set for another diabetic and can change based on age and physical problems. However, there are for main diabetes management guidelines that will be a constant:

1. Eating healthy foods
2. Getting plenty of exercise/physical activity
3. Regularly checking your blood glucose
4. Taking your medicine(s) as prescribed

Two additional diabetes management guidelines that can enrich your life are being sure to have your doctor check your average blood sugar for a 3 month period (aka A1C) and, if applicable, quit smoking.

Tips for Diabetes Management:

Even with all the resources available—books, internet, diet friendly foods, etc. – Diabetes management can be a bit overwhelming. To help out with the daily “ins and outs” of make as many as necessary of the suggestions below a standard part of your days routine.

Diabetes Management Tips

Eat with intentionality-have the same amount and type of carbohydrates at about the same time in relation to when you take your insulin/medication

• Take action if your blood glucose is over your ideal range—skip a snack, eat a smaller meal, get more exercise
• Anytime you think your blood glucose is low, check. If it is, eat 15 grams of carbohydrates then check your blood glucose 10-15 minutes late. If it is still low, repeat. This will ensure that your blood glucose levels do not get too high after being too low.
• Save some of your daily calories so you can have a snack before going to bed. This will help prevent overnight hypoglycemia as well as morning time highs which can result from overnight lows. Some people find protein snacks to be beneficial.

Diabetes management can be achieved by following your doctor’s diabetes treatment/guidelines and successful use of the diabetes management tips. You just have to “keep on doing…”

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