Non-pharmacological treatment of diabetes.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 16 Non-pharmacological treatment of diabetes Keywords: Diabetes mellitus;,, non-drug;,, treatment According to WHO reports, diabetes has become the third largest threat to human chronic non-communicable diseases [1], both developed and developing countries, its prevalence rate Juncheng year upward trend. In 1997 diabetic patients worldwide, 135 million by the year 2000 there are about 175 million in 2025 will surge to 300 million [2] preliminary estimate, China’s current diabetic patients is about 3 000 million, of which type 2 diabetes accounts for about 90% of the ~ 95%, diabetes has become a major public health problem [3]. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) proposed a comprehensive diabetes treatment (diet therapy, exercise therapy, medication, blood glucose monitoring, diabetes education) [4], where non-drug therapy for 4 parts. Is a non-drug treatment for diabetes research are outlined below. 1 Diabetes Education 1.1 The object of diabetes education diabetes and their families, as well as family history of diabetes, the majority of medical workers and the general population. 1.2 Diabetes Education in the form of an object due to education, age, occupation, culture and different levels of diabetes knowledge, acceptance, understanding different, so diabetes education can take many forms, such as: ① diabetes knowledge distribution of manuals and subscribe to the relevant books, newspapers, magazines ; ② outpatient counseling, individual education to patients at any time to answer patient questions; ③ open forums, patients talk with each other to explore the form of exchange treatment experiences; ④ the use of wall newspapers, comic books, lectures and other user-friendly form of regular missionary. In short, according to different content, different levels of various forms of health education [5]. 1.3 ① diabetes, diabetes education content-based knowledge, and use straightforward la