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November is the month of national awareness of diabetes. Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death (fifth leading cause of death by disease) in America. According to the American Diabetes Association Diabetes affects over 20 million Americans, That € ™ s 7% of the population! Another 41 million Americans suffer from diabetes mellitus. This means that for every 5 people that at least one of them has either diabetes or prediabetes. This includes the likelihood of someone you know. Each day approximately 2,200 people diagnosed with diabetes, and the statistics getting worse every year.

Local fitness consultant, Katrina McKenna MetamorFitness, believes that we can reverse this trend through education and awareness. Katrina offers 7 things you can do to reverse the trend and eliminate the need for Diabetes Awareness Month.

1. Tell your doctor if you have diabetes or are at risk for diabetes need to know as much as possible from your doctor as soon as possible.

2. If you are diabetic, you learn to manage blood sugar levels. This is of vital importance in reducing the risk of serious complications such as heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and amputation of limbs.

3. If you do not have diabetes, check if you are at risk. Learn how you can reduce your risk factors to prevent or delay the diagnosis.

4. Make a donation to the American Diabetes Association, directly or sponsor someone in Diabetes Walk or the Tour de Cure. You can participate or volunteer for one of these events. Learn more from the American Diabetes Association at http://www.diabetes.org

5. Maintain or achieve a healthy weight. If you have diabetes, weight loss will improve control of blood sugar, and if you are at risk, reduces the risk of becoming diabetic.

6. Eat a healthy diet. A healthy diet will also help to maintain the stability of blood sugar and helps you maintain a healthy weight. Moderator calories helps maintain or lose weight and control the amount of carbohydrates you eat and when to check blood sugar levels.

7. Exercise regularly. Exercise is very important in controlling blood sugar and even preventing diabetes. The moderate exercise most days of the week improves insulin resistance and helps weight loss or maintenance. Exercise is vital tool for a long and healthy life if you have diabetes or not.

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Many patients with diabetes who need insulin and often develop insulin deficiency. However, they should just take a syringe or pen device. This keeps your insulin, glucose or sugar to normal levels, maintaining a healthy person.

Unfortunately, in countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc., where ambulance support is poor, insulin treatment becomes more difficult. Most doctors prescribe insulin, but did not have time to educate patients about taking insulin injections. Very often, a person without patient trains.

And if the insulin bite problems are common in these countries. Problems such lipohypertrophy, marks the injection, infections are more common Indian and Asian patients.

Injection sites and the angles
One of the most important aspects of the technique of injection of insulin. Insulin must meet the subcutaneous tissue is the layer of fat under the skin. Thus areas such as the abdomen [except around the navel], outer thighs and arms are considered good sites. Unfortunately, many patients still injecting in the arm or in the calf, which is incorrect.

Besides the location, the important thing is the angle of injection. Previously, the needles over 12 mm were available and, therefore, was recommended to inject at 45 degrees so as to avoid intramuscular injection, especially in people with a slender. But today, the needles shorter 5 to 6 mm are available. With these needles, it is preferable to inject insulin at 90 degrees.

Injection site is another important concept. If insulin is injected in the same spot as the area of skin becomes Ollier and this is called lipohypertrophy. Insulin injected in this area is absorbed slowly and unevenly, making it difficult to control sugar. Since the bite in this area is painless, the patient prefers, but is also in trouble due to fluctuations in blood sugar. It is therefore very important that the patient should be injected at various points and should continue to rotate injection sites.

The absorption of insulin
Another emphasis should be placed on the site of injection and the rate of absorption of insulin. Most studies show that absorption is more rapid in the abdomen. It is therefore important that the morning insulin or rapid acting insulin can be injected into the abdomen during the night, the insulin can be injected into the thigh. Otherwise, all the morning you can shoot on the abdomen during the evening on the thigh plans to make more consistent absorption of insulin. This would avoid unexpected fluctuations in insulin levels due to the change of the injection site.

Reuse needles

How many times the reuse of syringes is also an important issue. Even if the needles are disposable, in India, many patients are re-used needles because of cost factors.
Ideally, a patient should not reuse a needle, but if we then consider some points. Better not to reuse a needle more than three times or four times. Do not boil. In fact, do not touch the needle. Maintain good personal hygiene and wash their hands before injecting insulin.