Living Well, life span is longer, the incidence of diabetes in the elderly has increased significantly. In diabetic patients, elderly patients with diabetes accounted for 30% of senile diabetes is a threat to the health of the elderly.
How to determine if they had diabetes? How the prevention and treatment of senile diabetes? With a number of issues of concern to the elderly, the reporter interviewed a provincial deputy director of the Chinese medicine doctor of internal medicine Dr. Zhao Quanlin.
Three types of diabetes in elderly
Basically, the elderly are type Ⅱ diabetes mellitus, there are three types: the elderly caused by obesity diabetes, lack of exercise-induced diabetes and the elderly family genetic history of diabetes caused by old age.
Most of asymptomatic diabetes in elderly
Hidden elderly onset diabetes, a relatively minor symptoms, no problem of "a little over 3" (polydipsia polyuria eat more weight loss) symptoms, and some will also appear in patients with mild fatigue, weakness, dry mouth, weight loss, etc. symptoms of diabetes in elderly general inspection body or in the diagnosis and treatment of other diseases when found. Wait until there are more obvious symptoms, the incidence of a long time already, and even has some asymptomatic patients.
How to determine whether the risk of diabetes
We determine whether the elderly suffer from diabetes, blood glucose mainly by check. When fasting blood glucose ≥ 7.0 mmol / L, or after a meal blood glucose ≥ 11.1mmol / L on the note had been suffering from diabetes. In early diabetes, the relatively short treatment time can be 23 days or a week or so check blood sugar, are relatively stable condition of the patients about half a month to check once a month, there are some patients once a day or two, or even a few day times, this is completely unnecessary.
Prone to complications of diabetes in elderly
Long course of disease in elderly diabetic, prone to complications, this is the inevitable old-age trend of development of diabetes, which led to the death of elderly patients with diabetes are basically the heart, brain and kidney complications of diabetes, diabetes complications in elderly diabetic heart disease, diabetic nephropathy, diabetes and so on dozens of cerebral complications. There have been a patient like playing mahjong, do not take medicine, and pay no attention to diet is often to drink, there have been kidney damage, leading to diabetic nephropathy, and later developed into a uremia, can only rely on life-sustaining hemodialysis.
The purpose of control in elderly diabetic complications is the control to ensure the health of the elderly. Better control of complications to control blood sugar, blood pressure and lipid control, control of high blood viscosity and so on.
