It must take a realistic view towards treatment and complications of diabetes to minimize these expressions and improve the quality of life.
Diabetes is a disease that has several aspects. First, there are different ways of presentation and body’s response to treatment. Also, and especially today, there are multiple treatment options alone or in combination with each other. We refer to oral therapy or injection (syringes, pens, infusion pumps) that can be used by a patient at various stages of the disease and at different stages of his life. It is therefore necessary to clarify and demystify some popular beliefs. These misconceptions include:
“The worst thing about diabetes is having to follow a diet, suffer hardship (to me with what I like to eat!), Spend much on food and feel that one must eat differently from other people.”
This belief is often one of the main obstacles for diabetics follow a healthy eating plan and balanced, because if you have the idea that diet is synonymous with deprivation and suffering hardly understand it’s nothing more to give an order to supply . In fact, there are many people who at the time be diagnosed diabetes do not require more than a couple of dietary patterns in their daily lives because they have an orderly power. In most cases, particularly in large cities, the usual diet of diabetics and non diabetics is usually messy, often excessive in certain foods and deficient in others, and anarchy on the distribution of food to over day. The only limitations of the diet would apply to people who are overweight or obese as “inseparable companions” of diabetes type 2. In these individuals will be necessary to limit calories, as any individual to be losing weight, diabetic or not. The current food trends in diabetes provide for the inclusion of virtually all food, medication adjusting to each food choices.
“No problems with this food: it is for diabetics, so I can eat whatever you want”
More than a belief in this claim is currently indicating a degree of denial of the diabetic to himself or to their environment. First we need to know what it means to “diabetic”: Refers to the content or absence of sugar? You mean some special nutrients? Currently, the trends suggest the desirability of not adopting this type of food at once, emphasizing the importance of reading labels carefully lettered or packaged nutritional products, and consulting the doctor or dietitian if there is doubt.
“Now they told me I neglected insulin in the diet.”
While insulin for diabetics given much freedom to vary their intake, it is always advisable to follow an order in their diet so as to avoid sudden drops or promotion of blood glucose.
“The doctor told me to put myself but I resist insulin. While I respect your opinion, I do not think so bad, and if I start to use insulin and will never be able to leave her, get used and it’s going to need more of it ”
This comment seems more suited to someone who is instigated to receive an illegal drug sale to a person who your doctor is proposing the need for insulin. It is not a drug or medicine, but a substitute for insulin your pancreas is not itself able to produce in sufficient quantities. The people starting insulin treatment and maintained over time, not doing it for an addiction problem but genuine need. If you talk to them you will notice that they feel much better and not have to skip meals to keep blood glucose levels rise excessively. If your doctor tells you to take insulin, accept this indication and will soon notice the benefits.
“When I feel good I will take some of the pills that the doctor told me to cut more spending”
While medications have an undeniable cost, currently the topic of costs should not be a barrier to limit the use of pharmacological agents that allow you to control the disease. If you’ve reached a good control of their disease would not be logical to back eliminating or reducing the dose used. Health systems have an obligation to assist with the costs of treating diabetes, a subject on which you should talk to your doctor or health care provider system.
Think about these issues, talk with your family and forward all your concerns with your doctor.
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