Treatment of diabetes mellitus or type 2

Being a chronic disease, diabetes mellitus or Type 2 is not a disorder that can be cured, but they control; and how much greater is detected before you will be your chances of success and that no serious complications in the medium and long term occurrence.

Keep in mind that when detected in its early stages glucose levels in the blood can reach easily controlled without drugs, by adopting certain habits, such as a balanced eating plan that will eliminate excess weight, regular physical exercise and cessation of snuff if you are a smoker. Only by this way in order to normalize the presence of blood sugars have to adopt pharmacological measures is not achieved.

Currently there are available numerous drugs (oral agents) that maintain controlled diabetes mellitus, by using one or combining. One of the last to have been approved, metformin, even helps with overweight. But in any case, there are two factors that are essential to ward off type 2 diabetes The first is strict compliance with the treatment prescribed by the doctor.

The other measured daily at the same hour glucose levels in blood, in order to detect its elevation. In this case you must consult your doctor to adjust or modify the treatment. The importance of this lies in the fact that oral agents can fail to work and lead to a situation in which the pancreas can not produce more insulin, so that oversight be exogenously (with injections or insulin pumps ) and at this point the risk of serious complications is much higher.

Surgery for the treatment of diabetes mellitus

A recent development in the treatment of diabetes mellitus is that it has come to understand even better the mechanisms that trigger and where the small intestine seems to play an important role.

And it has been able to control the presence of glucose in the blood without drugs in 37.5% of patients treated with oral antidiabetic agents and more than 90% of those requiring insulin administration.