The Full Treatment List for Diabetes
At this time, there is no cure for diabetes, but with careful, medically monitored management, diabetes can be successfully managed, minimizing complications and allowing people with diabetes to live a normal active life.
At this time, there is no cure for diabetes, but with careful, medically monitored management, diabetes can be successfully managed, minimizing complications and allowing people with diabetes to live a normal active life.
Treatment of all types of diabetes includes regular monitoring of blood sugar levels, following a well-balanced healthy diet and regular aerobic exercise program recommended by your health care provider. It is also important not to smoke and to follow your health care provider's advice on preventing, monitoring, and treating any coexisting medical conditions, such as hypertension and high cholesterol.
Type 1 diabetes is always managed with injected insulin.
Type 1 diabetes is always managed with injected insulin.
A new treatment that may be an option for some people with type 1 diabetes is pancreatic islet transplantation.
This experimental surgery transplants insulin-producing beta cells from a donor into the pancreas of a person with type 1 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is often managed with oral antidiabetic drugs, such as glipizide, glyburide, and metformin.
Type 2 diabetes is often managed with oral antidiabetic drugs, such as glipizide, glyburide, and metformin.
Pregnant women with gestational diabetes may be treated with glyburide, and some people with type 2 diabetes or gestational diabetes may need insulin injections.
The list of treatments mentioned in various sources for Diabetes includes the following list.
Always seek professional medical advice about any treatment or change in treatment plans.
* Diet changes
* Weight loss
* Exercise - with care and under medical advice; take extra care if using diabetes pills or insulin.
* Diabetes control - ongoing monitoring and control of diabetic blood sugar levels:
o Diabetic blood sugar control
o Self monitored blood glucose testing
o Finger-prick blood glucose tests
o Urine glucose testing
o Urine ketone testing
o Diabetic blood sugar control
o Self monitored blood glucose testing
o Finger-prick blood glucose tests
o Urine glucose testing
o Urine ketone testing
* Diabetes treatment strategies
o Diet changes - usually part of any diabetes treatment plan
o Lifestyle changes only - i.e. the use of diet, exercise and weight loss only without medications.
o Diabetic blood sugar control - this is an important aspect of all diabetes treatment plans
o Diabetes pills
o Insulin
o Diabetes pills and insulin combined
o Brief insulin use then diabetes pills only - a "hit early" research strategy to normalize blood sugars quickly with insulin and then stop insulin after a few weeks; mainly for Type 2 diabetes
o Diabetes pills during honeymoon phase then insulin later - for early-stage treatment strategy for newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes
o Regular checkups for diabetes complications
o Treatment of any diabetes complications
o Checkups for associated conditions of diabetes
* Diabetes pills - i.e. diabetes medications; mostly for Type 2 diabetes rather than Type 1 diabetes
o Sulphonylureas
o Metformin
o Sulphonylureas
o Metformin
* Combined diabetes pills and insulin
o Bedtime insulin daytime sulphonylureas (BIDS) - a combination of insulin and diabetes pills
o Bedtime insulin daytime sulphonylureas (BIDS) - a combination of insulin and diabetes pills
* Insulin - and there are various types of insulin:
1-Very rapid acting insulin
2- Short-acting insulin
3- Long-acting insulin
4- Animal insulin
5- Insulin combinations
1-Very rapid acting insulin
2- Short-acting insulin
3- Long-acting insulin
4- Animal insulin
5- Insulin combinations
1- Very rapid acting insulins - usually acting within less than 30 minutes and not lasting long
o Insulin lispro
o Humalog
o Insulin lispro
o Humalog
2- Short-acting insulins - usually acting within 30 minutes and lasting a few hours only
o Regular insulin
o Humulin R
o Novolin R
o Rapidact insulin
o Regular insulin
o Humulin R
o Novolin R
o Rapidact insulin
3- Long-acting insulins - usually acting for 12 to 24 hours
o NPH insulins
o Lente insulins
o Ultra-lente insulins
o NPH insulins
o Lente insulins
o Ultra-lente insulins
4- Animal insulin - rarely used in modern days
o Beef insulin
o Pork insulin
o Beef insulin
o Pork insulin
5- Insulin combinations
o Combined insulin R and insulin NPH
o Combined insulin R and insulin NPH
6- Insulin delivery devices
o Insulin syringes
o Insulin pens
o Insulin automatic injectors
o Insulin pumps
o Insulin jet injectors
o Insulin syringes
o Insulin pens
o Insulin automatic injectors
o Insulin pumps
o Insulin jet injectors
* Diabetes complication prevention treatments - there are numerous products claimed, often dubiously, to prevent diabetes complications; some such possibilities are:
o Vitamin E - some studies have shown some small benefits.
o Vitamin C - some studies have shown some small benefits.
o Antioxidants - because Vitamin C and Vitamin E are antioxidants.
o Low-dose aspirin - the preventive benefits against heart disease may be worthwhile in preventing diabetic heart disease
o Chromium - in our opinion probably of dubious benefit.
* Potassium - possibly used for treatment of potassium deficiency
* Vitamin A - to prevent vitamin A deficiency
* Zinc - possibly used for treatment of related zinc deficiency
* ACE inhibitors - good evidence that they provide renovascular protection in both hypertensive and non-hypertensive diabetic patients
* Statins - recommended in patients with and LDL> 3.4 for prevention of cardiovascular disease
* Diabetes pills - i.e. diabetes medications; mostly for Type 2 diabetes rather than Type 1 diabetes
o Sulphonylureas
o Metformin
o Acarbose
o Repaglinide
o Thiazoldediones
o Metformin
o Acarbose
o Repaglinide
o Thiazoldediones
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