If we ask in the forum what is the function of the pancreas 99% will answer that segregating the insulin and if we ask for a fast response is correct.
But we will try to see it with a little more prespective, it is clear that the Beta cells secrete insulin, peptide C and amiline, but ... how do they secrete it?
A fixed Piñon?
When the brain informs that you are eating 5 insulin units for saying an amount?
When have it spent 7 hours since the last food does the brain order to lower the insulin to the minimum and secrete glucagon?
The function of the pancreas is to measure continuously!and according to the situation to dosing the necessary insulin, or according to the amount of food in the digestive tract secreting the amiline.
That is, the function of the pancreas is to measure and dose continuously.
A diabetic does not have beta cells and has to be measured and dosing, but curiously the SS believes that a number greater than 6 strips of measurement per day should not be used and if someone claims more quantity they tell him that he does not need to be measured so much,Or even worse, that it is producing excessive expense.
In any case, if you notice hypoglycemia symptoms that take some glucose and wait until the time of the next analysis is coming or that is done at that time and then the next one is skipped.
This in the dependent insulin, in which they take oral antidiabetics, with an analysis per month already seems enough.
A diabetic does not have functional beta cells and it must be his brain who makes decisions about the amount of insulin to be injected and at what time.
But if the pancreas would continually measure it, is it logical that with 6 measurements a day there is enough information?
The SVS (the Valencian SS) had the "kindness" of sending me a document of "consensus" in which it was decided that the maximum was to facilitate 6 daily control strips as maximum:
Consensus?Among those who have reached that consensus? Among doctors and politicians? And what were the extreme points that were defended in that consensus?
Something must be taken into account that for a diabetic is too well known, but that for the population in general (and for too many doctors too) and that is that the amount of blood glucose changes in a matter of minutes both up and down.
The SS affirms that a continuous meter or the flash type is not necessary and in any case that it would be an excessive expense and ignores or does not want to look at the long -term damage that produces poor glucose control and the sensation it gives is that itsIdea is to save today and if tomorrow the expense is greater, the one that this morning that appeals with that expense.
The unnecessary suffering and disease that causes this lack of control today to diabetics (and the one that caused tomorrow) seems not to matter or want to give the idea that it is a complaint and insatiable collective.
Recently I had to explain to a non -diabetic relative because I want to have a continuous meter and because I am going to spend money on something that the SS covers.
As you have no formation I could not embark on complicated explanations so I had to use an analogy.
Let's place ourselves:
We are driving a car and we wear the eyes fixed on the road to move the steering wheel sometimes and sometimes abruptly according to the road to keep ourselves in the asphalt and not end up in a sown or worse even in a ravine.
Normally we do not carry the eyes fixed on the road without blinking, we can usually make small looks to the landscape or the indications of populations, but basically most of the time we look at the road.
Now, the SS tells me that it is not necessary to look at the road, that I must drive with my eyes closed and every minute open them for a tenth of a second, get an idea of what is there and continue to last another oneendless minute.
He also tells me that if I notice that the wheels begin to vibrate in a strange way it may be that he is stomping and that the steering wheel turns to get back into the asphalt ... but not everyone has sensitivity to notice it or the roadIt can be bachelor and be impossible to notice until it is in the middle of a sown or is falling to a ravine.
The road also is not always the same, there are days that it is a quiet highway where there are no turns and there are days that the road is a demoniadSuddenly we find a 90º curve that, to continue straight, leads us directly to the ravine without prior notice.
In any case I can reopen your eyes but in return I will have to have them closed for two minutes.
Would we accept that the DGT told us that nothing happens to close our eyes for a minute while driving?
Would we accept that the DGT told us that as it is expensive to bring open eyes we close them to save to the administration the expense that we carry them open?
Do we find logical saving in exchange for destroying cars, producing injured, invalid and dead?
Would we find a consensus to which we tell us that we risk our lives in exchange for saving?
Well ... this is the situation.
Damn is a thousand times
SS recommends diabetics driving with closed eyes.
