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When they first sprang out at their time, drugs were the marvelous choice for diabetes treatment. Many diabetics have used them, and they could lower their blood sugar levels.
But, there were seen some severe side effects of all these diabetes drugs, from hypoglycemia (the most common side effect) to irreversible liver damages.
The great machinery of pharmaceuticals has done its best to come up with new diabetes medications as a choice for the old drugs side effects. But, even with these new drugs, other severe side effects appeared. As a consequence, most of them such as alpha glucosidase inhibitors are not used anymore as a diabetes treatment.
Anyway, basically diabetes treatment depends on the type of diabetes you have. For type 1 diabetes, insulin remains the only drug prescribed, although it has side effects.
Meanwhile, for type2 diabetes, at first it is recommended to use oral hypoglicemiants of one of the following three main groups:
1 Sulfonylurea (Chlorpropamide) - these drugs stimulate beta cells in pancreas to produce insulin.
2 Biguanides (Metformin) - it improved the use of glucose from body cells; and reduce the amount of sugar produced from the liver
3 Thiazolidinediones - they improve the intake of glucose by your fat and muscle tissue
One other group remains Alfa glucosidase inhibitors that inhibit the enzyme alfa glucosidase in intestine. In this way, glucose is not absorbed and gases may be formed and cause many digestive problems.
This is one part of medallion for diabetes treatment using the drugs. There is one other part consisting in changing your everyday lifestyle habits, or even using the all kind foods your body needs.
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