Intensive diabetes therapy is a medical way to impersonate the way a normal pancreas responds to the body's need for insulin. This therapy involves repeated monitoring of blood glucose – normally four to five times a day and eventually the subsequent adjustment in insulin dose and meal plan, i.e. according to the results of blood glucose test. It has often seen with this therapy that the insulin dose and meal plan change almost every day.

If you feel uncomfortable with intensive therapy, most people feel, don't go for it rather talk to your doctor and follow the directions given by him properly in order to keep your diabetes under rigid control.

Unlike conventional therapy, which usually focuses on anticipating the insulin needs for next few hours depending on what you plan to eat, intensive therapy based on the fact that eating habits, metabolism, general health and physical activities cannot be same every time. It is important to test your blood glucose frequently, devise your insulin dose according to test results or your future needs, in order to deal with such fluctuations properly. In this way this therapy pretty much works like a pancreas that evaluate the amount of glucose in blood and release the proper amount of insulin accordingly.

According to DCCT results, intensive therapy is more beneficial for Type I diabetics, but diabetes specialists are of the view that Type II diabetics can also take advantage of intensive therapy, as this therapy mainly focus on controlling blood glucose rather than type or medication of diabetes. Normally, Type II diabetics fulfill their needs through diet and physical activity, but there are Type II diabetics that require oral hypoglycemic agents or even insulin to control their diabetes. Research shows that both the Type I and Type II feel better with intensive therapy.

Intensive therapy as like any other therapy require so much attention, you need to be fully committed to your therapy to achieve the best results from it. Although a little bit of hard work is required, it is has its vital role to in the treatment of diabetics with higher complexities, with unpredictable or unusual lifestyles, for those who are or want to become pregnant.

Precision is the main goal of intensive therapy. Precision in the sense that it foremost task is to keep the blood glucose level normal and maintain it to this level for as long as possible. Although, it seems quite easy at first instance but in fact it is not. There are few things about which a diabetic may often unsure, such as what is normal level of blood glucose? And how can one interpret his daily lifestyle to maximum precision. You need to be certain about these two things before moving along with any therapy.

Intensive therapy isn't for everyone. There are few people who may feel uncomfortable with intensive therapy like those with severe complications, having history of severe hypoglycemia, cardiac patients, those who abuse drugs and alcohol, or children under seven and adults more than seventy years old.

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