People with diabetes can stay healthy and prevent severe complications by keeping their blood sugar levels within a normal range. The best way to manage blood sugar is through education, support, and guidance from experienced Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists. At MNT Associates, LLC in Longview, Texas, our team offers telehealth appointments for adults throughout Texas, making expert care accessible from anywhere. Contact us today or use our online booking to learn how to live well with diabetes.
Book OnlineWhy do I need diabetes education?
Keeping your blood sugar level steady is the only way to stay healthy when you have diabetes. You can’t put it off or occasionally watch your carbohydrates. Every day requires consistent lifestyle decisions that work to prevent high blood sugar levels.
Diabetes education teaches you everything you need to know to navigate life with diabetes. Kit teaches you how to maximize wellness and create a lifestyle that stabilizes blood sugar and prevents diabetes-related health complications.
What does diabetes education cover?
Kit meets with you one-on-one via telehealth, ensuring that you get the comprehensive information you need to feel confident about managing your diabetes. She collaborates with each person, developing treatment plans tailored to their preferences, lifestyle, and schedule.
In addition to teaching you about your type of diabetes, Kit covers essential concerns, including:
Healthy eating
Eating well is essential to managing blood sugar. Kit offers nutrition counseling (medical nutrition therapy), including planning meals and choosing foods that maintain healthy blood sugar levels. Healthy eating also includes learning to monitor carbohydrates (foods that convert into sugar in the blood) and following a special diet if needed for an existing health condition.
Activity balancing
Exercise lowers your blood sugar, supports weight loss, and helps you stay at a healthy weight. Being overweight and having diabetes dramatically increases your risk of health complications like high blood pressure (hypertension), high cholesterol (hyperlipidemia), heart disease, and kidney disease.
Diabetes monitoring
Everyone needs to learn about monitoring their blood sugar. That includes understanding the basics about A1C blood testing for blood glucose levels, what the numbers mean, and how frequently you need to be tested. Diabetes education also includes learning about monitoring your blood sugar and injecting and storing insulin.
Kit has years of experience teaching people how to use insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices.
Self-care routines
Self-care is critical for people with diabetes. For example, following a daily foot care routine prevents dangerous diabetic foot ulcers. You must also practice diligent dental hygiene because diabetes increases your risk of gum disease.
Does diabetes education include medication?
During diabetes education, Kit helps you manage the medication your physician prescribes. She’ll discuss the necessity of taking your medication as prescribed, teach about potential side effects, and find ways to overcome problems interfering with taking or getting your drugs.
Call MNT Associates, LLC, today, or request a telehealth appointment online to start your diabetes education.