What to do if your hands and feet are numb, relief methods for diabetic patients

There are more and more diabetic patients nowadays. Diabetic patients are prone to numbness in their hands and feet, so they must control blood sugar in time, treat it with diet, and do some appropriate physical exercise. They can also consider insulin treatment.

1. Control blood sugar. To control and treat numbness of hands and feet, diabetic patients should first control blood sugar and ensure that blood sugar is normal and stable. Blood sugar control includes diet therapy, oral hypoglycemic drugs and insulin application.

2. Appropriate physical exercise Appropriate physical exercise can reduce weight, improve insulin sensitivity (that is, a unit amount of insulin can lower blood sugar more), and relieve numbness in the hands and feet caused by diabetes. Therefore, exercise is an indispensable auxiliary treatment for diabetics. Patients with cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases or severe microvascular lesions should arrange exercise according to their actual personal conditions.

3. Insulin treatment: Diabetic patients can also use insulin treatment to stabilize blood sugar and relieve numbness in hands and feet caused by diabetes. Patients with type 1 diabetes have impaired pancreatic beta cell function and absolutely insufficient insulin secretion. They need insulin treatment when the disease occurs, and they need lifelong insulin replacement therapy to maintain life and living. It accounts for about 5% of the total number of people with diabetes. For patients with type 2 diabetes, if their blood sugar level still does not reach the control target based on the combined treatment of lifestyle and oral hypoglycemic drugs, they can start combined treatment of oral drugs and insulin. Generally, when HbA1c is still greater than 7.0% after combined treatment with larger doses of multiple oral medications, you can consider starting insulin treatment.

4. Medication and infusion to relieve numbness of diabetic hands and feet is due to long-term unstable control of blood sugar, which can easily lead to chronic complications and diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Generally, in clinical practice, oral Chinese medicine is combined with intravenous drip of vasodilation, blood circulation improvement and nerve nutrition drugs to repair neuropathy and relieve numbness of hands and feet.