When you want to learn about your diabetes, the best place to start is by going straight to the experts. The American Diabetes Association has long been involved in helping diabetics understand and learn how to manage diabetes.
By knowing how to take care of your disease, you can expect to live a happy and healthy life. The American Diabetes Association Complete Guide to Diabetes: The Ultimate Home Reference from the Diabetes Experts shares all of the newest information on dealing with the disease.
The guide covers a wide range of information that you can use to successfully treat your condition. It explains all of the details about what living with diabetes is like and how the disease can affect you.
The book explains diabetes in a tone that offers hope and a positive message toward striving to thrive with the disease. You’ll learn what glucose is, how your body uses it and what happens within your body when it’s not used the way that it should be.
Understanding glucose is the first step toward bringing your levels down into a normal range. You’ll learn how to monitor your blood glucose and why it’s important that you frequently check your numbers.
The book breaks down the three most often diagnosed types of diabetes so that you can learn the important differences between them. These three are type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes.
You’ll learn how having gestational diabetes can raise your risk of developing diabetes later in life. The equipment that you need to monitor your diabetes is discussed in the book.
You’ll need things like meters, lancets, lancing devices, testing strips, control solution, and a diabetic organizer to carry your supplies to start with. There are companies that offer free meters, but there are reasons to beware.
While these meters might be top of the line, the testing strips can be quite expensive. You’re better off choosing to pay for a less expensive meter so that you can use affordable testing strips.
The book talks about the warning signs that you need to be on the lookout for such as high glucose warning signs or low glucose. You’ll learn what to do in an emergency.
It can helpful to wear medical alert jewelry. The book talks about the right eating plan for you as well as the need for exercise and medication – whether you need oral pills or insulin.
The long term complications of diabetes, if it’s not controlled, are also discussed in the book. The impact of diabetes is also broken down according to gender – how it affects men or women.
Also talked about are those professionals that you need as your medical providers such as a family doctor, an endocrinologist, a podiatrist and a nephrologist. This 576 page book is packed full of helpful information to help you learn how to deal with diabetes in your everyday life.