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Preventing Disease Through Diabetes Counseling Beneficial For Patients

By Gregory Powell


There is a growing number of young adults below the age of 20 that claims they have diabetes. There are at least eighteen thousand youths diagnosed with type one and at least five thousand diagnosed with type two. But the highest rate affects the American Indians and Alaskan Natives.

Diabetes is the leading cause of death and in 2010 alone there was a reported number of sixty nine thousand death certificates that claimed it was the cause of death. And another two hundred thousand more that pointed to this as a factor. As a result it is important for people to visit regularly their family doctors for diabetes counseling to detect early signs.

However if left untreated often increases the risk for serious health complications to arise. Also it is important to address the common signs and symptoms for early detection. The following is symptoms and signs of this such as frequent urination, feeling thirsty and hungry all the time, intense fatigue, foggy vision, open wounds take longer time to heal, weight loss for type one sufferers, and numbing and tingling sensation around the extremities for type two.

There are at least four test that help determines a patient is a candidate. There is the A1C, OGTT, Casual, and FPG and all these must be conducted within a clinical setting that is private and sterile. More over a doctor often repeats these test again, but if two different test show that the clients sugar levels are very high then a second test is no longer needed.

Symptoms for prediabetes always go undetected and patients who suffer from these do not often know it. But only after these high level complications such as gastroparesis, nephropathy, stroke, HHNS, and others develop in patients seek assessment from their doctors. Sometimes other complications develop in combination with main cause such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, hypoglycemia, CVD, problems with the eye and blindness, and sadly amputation as well.

Other combinations of conditions and complications are hypoglycemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular diseases, heart attacks, stroke, eye problems and blindness, diseases in kidney, and amputation. Besides that there are four test that patient undergoes to determine whether they are a candidate. And these are A1C, FPG, OGTT, and Casual.

Understanding the diagnostic procedures and its purpose is important. Because determining the level of sugar in the body is one factor that tells a patient if they have diabetes or not. The A1C diagnoses your body through measuring the average blood glucose level from the last two to three months.

Fasting plasma glucose exam is conducted after you have not eaten or drink other fluids except water for the last eight hours prior to the test. This test is usually conducted in the morning prior to breakfast. A normal FPG level often results to lesser than 100 mg per dl. Another is the oral glucose tolerance test which is a two hour test that examines the level of blood glucose before and within 2 hours once you drink a sweet special formula drink. This shows the doctor how the patients body can process glucose.

And the casual test happens to patients who are diagnosed with severe diabetes. And this is often conducted any time of the day for several times. Consequently it is necessary for individuals to meet with their primary health carer to discuss these test.




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