Effect Of Blood Tonic (Haematinics) And Other Supplements In Diabetes Patients

Diabetes supplements

Diabetes is a chronic disease. It is a disease characterized by excess sugar in the blood. This leads to complications that can lead to death if not properly manage. There is no known cause. Many theories have emerged on the possible cause or predisposing factors. It affects many persons. Many persons are diagnosed each year. Until the 1920, diabetes patients die gradually after some years. However, with the development of insulin and other drugs, patients on drugs, healthy lifestyle and strict diet can live long and a normal life. Strict diet include dietary supplements. This is a complex questions diabetes patients always ask. They are interested to know which dietary supplements is good for them. Even some drugs are not suitable for them except on patients under close medical supervision.
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Diets For Diabetes

Diabetes is a situation where the body regulation of blood glucose level is poor. This can happen when the level of insulin (the hormone responsible for the regulation of normal blood sugar level) in the body is low due to small production or non at all. The production happen in the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. It can also be cause by low sensitivity of body cells and tissues to the presence of insulin produce in the body. This can lead to excess sugar in the body. In other to eliminate this glucose from the body, the body start to experience diuresis, the elimination of water and other waste product from the body through frequent urination. Unfortunately, the glucose being eliminated will be lost with other important nutrients starving the body of such nutrients. This include vitamins and minerals that acts as the body antioxidants and immune booster. Eating more sugar can cause trouble. But still, the body needs glucose. That is why it is good to regulate it by drugs and what they eat.
In other to regulate the level of sugar in the body besides using drugs, one must avoid sugar and sugar containing drugs. Only food should be use as a source of glucose. Many diabetes patients avoid sugar but some fail to realise some drugs contain sugar. Besides sugar some of these drugs contain, they may also contain some minerals and vitamins that may make their condition worst. Let's take a look at this topic proper.

Drugs Diabetes Must Avoid

Sugar
Many diabetes patients walk into the community pharmacy for heamatinic (popularly called blood tonic) when they feel they lack blood. This action is bad. Hematinics contain iron. Iron is a mineral with a very bad metallic and somewhat bitter taste. To make the supplements palatable for consumers, the drug industry adds sugar or other forms of sweeteners to the product. This help to mask the task. Because of the extreme bad task, the quantity of sugar use is always very high. But it is never felt because the iron will mask the taste. For this, diabetes must stay of iron supplements syrups. But capsules are not design to be sweet. Drug industry don't add sweeteners to capsules. But that does not make iron supplements suitable for diabetes patients.
Besides iron supplements, there are many other syrups or even chewable tablets containing sugar. Many cough syrups, have been flavoured and must be avoided or use with strict monitoring of blood sugar level. However, many industries don't disclose all the ingredients in their product to the public because they fear others may copy them. They only disclose it to drug regulatory bodies. So always ask your health care expert for advise.

• Iron Supplements

When there is a lower amount of heamoglobin in the body, iron supplements can help build back the body in no time. However, normal healthy individuals can manage overdoasge of iron in there body when the level of heamoglobin is above normal. This is not the case with diabetes patients. Overdoasge of iron in diabetes can trigger type two diabetes or make complications worse. According to several research, people with a lot of iron in their body tends to suffer from type two diabetes (diabetes with low sensitivity of cells and tissues to insulin) and make worse their complication. This is cause by too quick oxidation of the iron in the body. Another research explain that the high figure of male diabetes type two patients than women is due to the facts that women lose iron during menstrual bleeding unlike men. But for diabetes who wants to dose on iron supplements, it is advise that they monitor the rate every year.

Dietary Supplements For Diabetes

Vitamin are dietary supplements that help to boost the effectiveness of your body's enzymes by acting as coenzyme. Each vitamin provides a different boost to the way the body deals with weight lose, fatigue and infection. The following vitamins and minerals have been shown to protect diabetes patients against the effect of the disease;

• Vitamin A, B6, B12 and folate

Diabetes neuropathy is one of the complications of diabetes. It make the extremes hands and legs less sensitive to all the senses like pain and temperature. This leads to development of injury that the sufferer may not even be aware of for years and very difficult to heal. This is because most of the nerve there are weak or damage. Vitamin B6, B12 and folate have been show. To support nerve health in the hands and legs. Vitamin A helps to support eye health in diabetes retinopathy, nerve damage to eye nerves due to diabetes.

• Alpha Lipoic Acid

Lots of oxidation going on in the body stressing out the cells. An antioxidant protect against cell damage resulting from oxidative stress. The use of this supplements in a research have shown it has properties to help reduce body mass index (B.M.I), waist circumference and HgbA1c levels and total cholesterol in patients. However, it must be noted that some other research are of a different opinion as to the effect of this on diabetes patients.

• Protein Powder

A good source of protein powder is whey containing amino acids and peptides. Adding it to diet help reduce glycemic index. The reduction is felt after eating reducing the after eating extreme rise in blood glucose level. Some claim it also stimulate insulin production.

• Glutamine

L-glutamine also have thesame effect as protein powder. Although studies have not be done on uncontrolled diabetes patients yet but only on patients with controlled diabetes.

• Biotin

Biotin improve insulin sensitivity and the utilisation of fats, proteins and carbohydrates.

• Vitamin C

This is an immune booster. It reduces glycation slows down diabetes progression offering antioxidant properties along with it.

• Vitamin D

Vitamin D encourage the absorption of calcium into bones promoting bone health. Besides that, it also supports the immune system and increase insulin sensitivity in cells.

• Vitamin E

One of the few vitamins that help fight free radical production in the body.

• Chromium

There is a theory that this element that is found in trace amounts in the body will help diabetes patients. This is because it aids in the utilisation of glucose. So far so good, few research done so far show conflicting results.

• Selenium

This element acts like insulin in the body. As a trace elements, we get it from the food we eat. However, some drug supplements contain it. But it must be noted that too high amount of this in the body can cause complications.

• Magnesium

Insulin regulates  magnesium metabolism in the body. Magnesium increases insulins ability to activate an enzyme called tyrosine kinase that is use in metabolism of glucose. When magnesium level in the body is low, it reduces the activity of tyrosine kinase in the body which cannot utilize the glucose within the cells. This leads to insulin resistance.
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Dietary Supplements For Preventing Diabetes

• Vitamin K

Studies have shown that people with good levels of either phylloquinone or menoquonone had a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

• Melatonin

Melatonin is a hormone that regulates and controls other hormones. It is produce more at night enabling us to sleep and less during the day for us to be active. It is produce from the pineal gland but a disturbance of this production leads to oxidative stress which can trigger type two diabetes. To prevent diabetes, bed time supplements with melatonin may reduce oxidative stress and improve blood sugar level.
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