Diabetic Care: Guides to Diabetic Living
Part of diabetes living is understanding diabetes care. The more an individual understands what is involved in the care for the disease, the more involved they can be in their own treatment.
In addition to a diabetic diet and exercising with diabetes, medication plays a major role in helping to treat the disease.
The US Department of Health and Human Services has published guides on their Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality website, which they define as “comprehensive summaries of research reviews”. The guides are prepared for clinicians, patients and their care givers.The guide, Pills for Type 2 Diabetes is my personal favorite. It talks about the types of pills that adult type 2 diabetics might take. This guide gives some background information that the type 2 diabetic may not have known.
Things like combination of pills, possible side effects and benefits and comparative prices are covered. For many, even before the current economic crisis, medication prices have been a concern.
Generic equivalents of brand names are generally cheaper than their name brand counterparts. I take a combination of Glucophage and Glucotrol. However, the generic versions, Metformin and Glipizide are much cheaper for me. Prices vary by source. People with type 2 diabetes should compare prices. The difference could be considerable over a year’s time. Your doctor can prescribe drugs with generic replacements.
The 6 guide Diabetes Guides are:
- Comparing Oral Medications for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes
- Gestational Diabetes: A Guide for Pregnant Women
- Gestational Diabetes: Caring for Women During and After Pregnancy
- Pills for Type 2 Diabetes: A Guide for Adults
- Premixed Insulin Analogues: A Comparison With Other Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes
- Premixed Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes: A Guide for Adults
While I trust my doctors to give me information about my disease, it’s good to know that there is a reference that I can use to give me the information that I can use. The non technical, easy-to-understand style helps the reader to digest what might otherwise be a tough read.
