Does diabetes require lifelong medication?

Patient's question:

Grandma has diabetes, several of them have started eating, but she is very thin now. The market has no strength all over her body, and she doesn't want to take medicine. Do three diabetes need to take medicine for life?

Doctor's answer:

Hyperglycemia is caused by a deficiency in insulin secretion or its biological action, or both. It mainly includes five aspects: patient education, self-monitoring of blood glucose, dietary management, exercise therapy, and drug therapy. Currently, there is no cure for diabetes, but various treatment methods can effectively control it. In diabetes, the long-term presence of high blood sugar leads to chronic complications, particularly affecting the eyes, kidneys, heart, blood vessels, and nerves, causing dysfunction.

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