The Spring Festival is just around the corner, diabetics, is your blood sugar ready? During various Spring Festival gatherings, once you're at the big family reunion dinner table, the lively atmosphere can make your chopsticks get out of control. A bite of every "main course," and before you know it, you've exceeded your limit. Additionally, since people's activities during the New Year are almost all static—watching TV, playing mahjong, gathering and chatting—there is a lack of moderate exercise to burn off excess intake, which can easily lead to elevated blood sugar and worsening of the condition.
It is precisely for this reason that almost every year after the Spring Festival, the number of diabetic patients seen in major hospitals surges, even forming a small peak in diabetes onset after the holiday. Experts explain that these patients mainly include long-term patients whose condition has worsened and newly diagnosed cases. The cause of the disease is mostly due to long-term unhealthy lifestyles during the Spring Festival.
Even if you haven't noticed any physical discomfort for the time being, you must not be careless. Think carefully, have you been strictly controlling your food intake every day? Have you exceeded the limit on a few days? Has your daily morning and evening walk been squeezed, causing your exercise time to be severely shortened? Did you stay up late playing cards? Did you forget to monitor your blood sugar on any day? If your answer to any of the above questions is yes, you should pay attention. If necessary, you should go to the hospital for a comprehensive check-up.
As a necessary measure for blood sugar control, whether you are increasing your exercise or reducing your intake, you need a blood glucose meter to help you confirm the effectiveness.
Generally, choose two days a week to test a full set of blood sugar, which means testing fasting, post-meal, and bedtime blood sugar. Among these, the fasting, 2 hours after breakfast, and bedtime blood sugar must be tested. Especially after changes in living habits, the frequency of blood sugar testing should be appropriately increased. If the condition is stable, you can switch to testing once a week.
When using a blood glucose meter, pay attention to the following points to ensure the accuracy of the readings. First, the blood glucose meter must be used with test strips of the same brand; they cannot be mixed. Second, disinfect with alcohol before testing, and wait for the alcohol to dry completely before taking blood to prevent alcohol from mixing with the blood. Third, the amount of blood drawn must be sufficient to completely cover the test area of the test strip. If you find that the blood volume is low when taking blood, do not squeeze your finger, as this will mix in tissue fluid and interfere with the blood sugar concentration. Before taking blood, soak your hand in warm water for a moment, then let it hang down for 30 seconds. Fourth, test strips should be stored in a dry, place away from light, and it's best to use individually packaged test strips. Fifth, the lancet must be used for single use only.
Of course, in order to achieve blood sugar targets, in addition to adjusting diet and exercise, proper medication must not be ignored.
For patients with type 1 diabetes, intensive insulin therapy is key. For patients with type 2 diabetes, since 90% of them have varying degrees of insulin resistance during the course of their disease, the key to lowering blood sugar is to reduce insulin resistance, achieving long-term, stable control of blood sugar from the "source." Insulin sensitizers, such as Tai Luo, address this very problem.
Many fellow diabetics may have encountered this situation: when they first started taking hypoglycemic drugs like sulfonylureas and biguanides, the blood sugar-lowering effect was very good. However, as the duration of the disease lengthened and the drug dose increased, the effect became worse and worse. This is because traditional diabetes medications stimulate excessive insulin secretion in the body. Over time, the pancreatic beta cells are severely damaged, and naturally, the blood sugar control effect will decline. The insulin sensitizer Tai Luo is specifically designed to combat insulin resistance. It can reduce insulin resistance by increasing the body's sensitivity to insulin, protecting pancreatic beta cells, and enhancing the hypoglycemic activity of insulin, thereby achieving long-term and stable blood sugar control while delaying the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications in patients.
Of course, based on the specific condition of the patient, it is also necessary to rationally combine other diabetes medications when using an insulin sensitizer. For example, for those with high post-meal blood sugar, acarbose drugs should be used in combination; for those who need to quickly control excessively high blood sugar, insulin should be used in combination.