Diabetes can be a real pain at times. However, there is a lot that one can do to minimize that pain. Everything a diabetic need is to get started properly with the things he must do to keep his disease under control.

The ten techniques I have discussed here are a major part of what excellent care for diabetes is all about. Other things need to be done as well, but if you follow through one these ten, whether you're the parent of a diabetic patient or diabetic yourself, the others will fall into place.

* The positive belief that what you're doing is helpful for you in the long-run. The power of positive thinking is an important tool that help diabetics to do everything knowing that their efforts will bear fruit in the form of a long and healthy life
* With modern methods available for management of the long term complications of diabetes, it's sad, unfortunate, and unnecessary for a patient with diabetes to lose his sight or his kidney function because he wasn't tested early. For every potential long-term complication due to diabetes, there is an excellent test or study that can discover it when it's still at a reversible stage.
* Diabetes is a "hot" disease right now, mostly because of the surge in cases of type 2 diabetes Diabetes journals that used to be thin are not thick with new information.Every day you will learn something new about diabetes. With proper knowledge diabetics can fight diabetes very easily.
* Careful management of the diet in diabetes has been shown repeatedly to lower the hemoglobin A1c by 1 percent or more. And every 1 percent drop in hemoglobin A1c causes a large decrease in the risk of micro vascular complications like retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy.
* The diabetics who do the most exercise gets least complications. Exercise has so many positive aspects to it and such a minimal downside that it should be your routine brushing teeth.
* Most of the time poor diabetic control has little to do with problems that are outside the control of the person with diabetes and has everything to do with not taking medications, not testing the blood glucose, not following a nutritional plan, and not exercising. There are all kinds of alarms and monitors you can set up to prompt yourself to take insulin.The bottom line is that the best treatments in the world are of little value if you don't use them.
* The eye is the one organ that allows doctors to see directly into the brain - what they see happening in the tissues of the eye is probably happening in the brain as well. Doctors have wonderful tools for viewing and photographing the eyes and for treating any damage that occurs to them. Make sure that you have yearly eye examinations from an eye doctor or optometrist. Abnormalities can be spotted early, and treatment preserves vision.
* Home testing of the blood glucose is a truly valuable tool that has made an enormous difference in the successful management of diabetes. It's truly amazing that you can know your blood glucose in 5 seconds with less than a drop of blood.
* One of the sad consequences of diabetes that should never occur is an amputation of the foot. Amputations are preventable, but they occur when relatively minor foot problems, especially ulcers of the foot, aren't caught and managed early. Ultimately, foot ulcers should never develop in the first place.
* Planning is the key if you're going to keep your diabetes under excellent control. Think about what you will be exposed to in advance, and smooth the way. Consider doing dry runs to prepare for potentially difficult situations. Practicing how you'll handle situations before they arise makes it a lot easier to function when you're faced with the real thing.