Following are the treatments that doctors would prescribe if you have prediabetes:
Healthy food habits
This is essential so that you consume more healthy and nutritious food rather than junk and fried foods. This also ensures that you lose weight and manage a healthy number of kilos on your weighing scale.
Exercise
Again, once you have sorted your food habits, it is essential to start an exercise routine. Even though one may feel that it is not required, it is. In an environment where everyone is working on the desks and travelling in a seated position, it is essential that we keep out limbs going for flexibility and optimum weight management. Try to work out for at least 30 minutes every day. You can give yourself rest once a week. Try to stick to the routine.
Stop smoking and drinking
As harsh as it sounds, stop. Smoking and drinking, no matter how good the sensations may be, do more harm than good, and there is no antidote to reverse the effects. The best thing would be to entirely stop. This is not a day’s job. Hence, to avoid withdrawal symptoms, especially if you have been smoking and drinking for a long time, join communities that can help you quit. This will make sure your prediabetes symptoms go down drastically.
Check your blood pressure and cholesterol
As we said, prediabetes can be triggered by higher levels of cholesterol and hypertension. If you have both the conditions, make sure your lifestyle changes include countering these conditions as well. Additionally, go for regular checkups or conduct at home to know that your levels are under control. It will control the prediabetes symptoms.
Be punctual with your medication
This goes without saying. Whatever conditions you are suffering from, especially those that are risk factors for prediabetes, take your medicines on time. Remember, prediabetes is majorly higher levels of blood sugar and has not yet developed into type 2 diabetes. If you treat your risk factors right, prediabetes may never turn into diabetes, thus taking one thing off your plate.
Prediabetes is treatable. Prediabetes symptoms are familiar, and thus easier to treat because they have not yet developed into diabetes. It may be induced from various risk factors, most of which emanate from an unhealthy lifestyle, but can be treated by countering it by entering a healthy lifestyle phase. The treatment of prediabetes is in your hands, just like diagnosing it; though confirming it is still the work of a doctor.
Did we miss out on anything? Do share your prediabetes experience with us, if you have ever had it. Share more if you had it and cured it with your healthy habits and lifestyle. We’re all ears.
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