Type 1 diabetes treatment
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Treatment for type 1 diabetes includes:
- Having one or more insulin injections daily or usage of an insulin pump.
- Have to check the blood sugar levels many times every day with the use of a home blood sugar meter.
- Taking healthy balanced diet which distributes carbohydrate all through the day, this will very helpful to prevent high blood sugar levels after regular repasts.
- Doing regular exercise or daily workouts helps to use more insulin powerfully and also lower you’re the high risk for blood vessel and heart disease.
- Visit the health clinic regularly to check and regulate the treatment as required by your body health.
- Screening tests are very useful and doing it regularly will help to prevent the signs of health complications that include heart, eye, kidney, blood vessel, and even nerve diseases.
- Stop smoking if you are a smoker.
- Avoid alcohol as it results in low blood sugar in your body.
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If the symptoms of type 1 diabetes are severe, the patients are mostly treated in an intensive care unit by giving fluids through a vein. This treatment is used to treat dehydration and, to lower the blood sugar level and balance electrolytes and to stop the production of ketones.
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