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Diabetes is treated mainly by two factors: by medication and by diet. Irrespective of the medication chosen in your case, you must be preoccupied to have an optimal weight. There are people who, at the beginning lose a lot of weight. They are thin, skinny, and they appear to be always ill. They are rare cases. Most often diabetes appears in the case of people who are too fat.

Treatment of type 2 diabetes

In the case of type 2 diabetes, after a meal, the insulin secretion is slow and insufficient, and it determines an exaggerated and extended growth of sugar level. In some cases these problems can be solved without medication, only through diet. In most of the cases the treatment of type 2 diabetes consists in taking pills, associated with diet and physical exercise. Oral treatment is efficient as long as the pancreas secretes insulin. In time, in the case of some patients it becomes inefficient and the only optimal treatment is insulin.

Oral treatment in the case of type 2 diabetes

Pills used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes can be divided in more groups:

- Based on sulfonylurea

- The first substance in a new class of oral medication against diabetes: lunch sugar level regulators.

They stimulate the insulin secretion by the pancreas during short periods, thus protecting the pancreatic cell against overcharge. Medication based on sulfonylurea has as main effect the pancreas stimulation in order to produce more insulin. There are some pills, too which increase the absorption of glucose by the cells.

Treatment with insulin in type 2 diabetes

Treatment with insulin remains the last hope when diet, physical exercise and oral therapy don’t succeed to assure an acceptable control of sugar level. Treatment with insulin will determine a general improvement of metabolism, with normal values of sugar level and fats, a better mood, from the physical and psychical point of view, preventing diabetes subsequent complications. A lot of persons suffering from type 2 diabetes are afraid of the change from pills to insulin and they are worried by the fact that they must inject insulin themselves. Modern injection devices permit a safer insulin injection, so that more people accept the treatment with insulin now.

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