Your diabetes treatment must be a full-time commitment. Diabetes is a serious illness. At first, it will not be easy, but your efforts will be worthwhile. Carefully following the appropriate treatment for your type of diabetes can reduce your risk of severe complications, some of them life-threatening.

Oral medications and insulin may play an important role in controlling your blood sugar, depending on the type of diabetes you have. An option to consider may be a pancreas transplant as well. Nevertheless, no matter what type of diabetes you suffer from, following a healthy diet, including dietary supplements, exercising and keeping a normal weight, are all the keys to conquering your diabetes.

TREATMENT FOR PREDIABETES

Healthy eating and exercise can help attaining and maintaining a healthy weight, and that is paramount if you have prediabetes. Healthy lifestyle habits will help you keep your blood sugar at normal levels, keeping it from raising toward type 2 diabetes levels.

TREATMENT FOR GESTATIONAL DIABETES

Control your glycemia level if you want to keep your baby healthy and avoid complications during delivery. Besides following a healthy diet and exercising, your gestational diabetes may need the use of insulin, at least temporarily, in some cases. During labor, your doctor will also monitor your blood sugar level, because if it rises too much, your baby may release high doses of insulin and thus suffer a hypoglycemia right after birth.

TREATMENTS FOR TYPE 1 AND TYPE 2 DIABETES

The treatments for type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes include monitoring of your glycemia on a daily basis, along with insulin or other diabetes medications, or both.

INJECTED OR ORAL MEDICATIONS

Sometimes injected or oral medications are prescribed as well. Some of them provoke your pancreas to make and release more insulin. Others restrain the production of glucose from your liver, which leads to a decrease of insulin need to transport blood sugar into your cells. Finally, others block the action of the enzymes of your stomach that break down carbohydrates, and others make your cells more insulin-sensitive.

MONITORING YOUR GLYCEMIA

You may need to check your glycemia — blood sugar — level just several times a week or up to several times a day, depending on your diabetes treatment plan. Doing this carefully is the only way to ensure your glycemia level remains within a safe range.

When you self-monitor your blood glucose, it is recommended that you check out your levels frequently, for example before meals and at bedtime. Record the results in a logbook, including as well insulin or oral medication doses, what you ate, when and for how long you exercised, and any other relevant information.

YOUR DIET

Following a healthy diet is one of the keys to controlling your glycemia levels. It is one of the three fundamental pillars of any diabetes treatment to prevent diabetes complications, together with exercise and nutritional supplements.

If you are obese or have had trouble losing weight on your own, talk to your doctor. Ask them to recommend you a dietitian or just a weight loss program to reach a goal: your ideal weight. I always recommend diabetics to follow a low glycemic index diet (low GI), a consistent and well-balanced diet that is low in simple carbohydrates and saturated fats and high in fiber, proteins and complex carbohydrates. When I say “consistent” I mean eating roughly the same number of calories at about the same hours, to help your doctor prescribe the right dose of insulin or medication, to maintain your glycemia at a roughly even level. It is important to avoid excessively low or high glycemia levels, which can be very dangerous.

You may need medication as part of your diabetes treatment. Nevertheless, eating healthy foods, exercising regularly and taking the appropriate nutritional supplements surely go a long way toward conquering your diabetes.

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