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What tests you can have to monitor your diabetes condition? The following are the quick tips from America Diabetes Association:

• Get your A1c tested at least twice a year.
You may need it checked more often if you are not at your goal or if your treatment changes.
• Get a dilated eye exam every year.
Your doctor will use eye drops to see the back of the eye. If you’ve had normal exams in the past, you may need exams less often (every two to three years).
• Have your blood pressure checked at every diabetes visit.
High blood pressure damages your blood vessels. This raises your risk for stroke, heart disease, and kidney and eye problems.
• Get a blood cholesterol test at least once a year.
High cholesterol can cause heart problems. You may need frequent testing to reach your goal.
• Check your feet every day and get a complete foot exam at least once a year.
Your doctor should check your feet at every visit if you have nerve damage

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Diabetes is a silent killer. You never know what is happening in your body until you have reached critical point where your body starts to give you signals of diabetes. As a result, you will develop serious symptoms for diabetes.

Definitely early detection of diabetes is the best way to avoid its complication. The standard  tests for diabetes are the Fasting Plasma Glucose Test and the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test.

Besides, take note of the signs and symptoms of diabetes. Ask yourself these questions, are you visiting the bathroom much more lately? Does it seem like you urinate all day long? Urination becomes more frequent when there is too much glucose in the blood.

Another sign for diabetes is that you feel like can’t get enogh water and you’re drinking much more than usual. Due to the high concentration of glucose in the blood, your body is pulling extra water out of your blood and you are running to the washroom more, you will become dehydrated and feel the need to drink more to replace the water that you are losing.

Glucose from the food we eat travels into the bloodstream where your pancreas produces insulin to help in transition of the glucose into the cells of your body. The cells use it to produce the energy we need to live. In diabetes cases, the glucose stays outside the cells in the bloodstream. The cells cannot get the energy and you feel tired and run down.

When glucose gather in the bloodstream, it will blocks the micro nerves in the body especially micro nerves at retina, nerves ending and nerves in renal. As the results, your may feel tingling or numbness in your hands, legs or feet. 

Know these signs and symptoms of diabetes is important in the early detection of diabetes cases. Remember, diabetes is better to be treated earlier before it becoming worse and spoilt your health.

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During exercise, the blood pressure and heart rate will elevated. What is the normal level for blood presure during exercise?

Exercise hypertension is an excessive rise in blood pressure during exercise. Patients who with exercise hypertension will have spiking in systolic pressure to 250mmHg or greater.

In clinical setting, a rise in systolic blood pressure to over 220mHg needs to be controlled by the appropriate drugs.

For diastolic pressure, normally in healthy individuals, the ‘dynamic’ exercise (walking, running) of moderate intensity is to remain constant or to fall slightly (due to the improved blood flow), but in some individuals a rise of 10mmHg or greater is found.

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Certain hypertension patients will having a high blood pressure when they reviewed in doctors clinic. However, their blood pressure readings are normal at home. Researchers found out that this is what known as “white coat hypertension”.

White coat hypertension is a phenomenon in which patients exhibit elevated blood pressure in a clinical setting but not when recorded by themselves at home. It is believed that this is due to the anxiety some people experience during a clinic visit.

Recent studies (American Journal of Hypertension, May 2006) showed home blood pressure monitoring is as accurate as a 24 hour ambulatory monitoring in determining blood pressure levels. Hypertension patients should have a blood pressure monitoring set at home. Record the Blood Pressure at home regulary. Download your free Blood Pressure Monitoring Cart here to record your blood pressure daily.

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