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Benfotiamine And Diabetic Retinopathy
Damage from diabetes can occur in different areas of the eye.
It can occur to the cornea, nerves controlling the muscles of the
eye, the lens, optic nerve and retina. The retina is the
complication that most people and medical professionals think of
first in terms of diabetic complications.
Diabetic retinopathy is simply damage to the light sensitive
retina. This damage is brought about by hyperglycemia, the
medical term for high blood sugar. Retinopathy is directly
responsible for approximately 12,000 to 24,000 cases of legal
blindness every year in the USA alone. It is reported that there
are over 200,000 cases each year globally.
Diabetic complications are even more insidious than these
numbers because there are several other types of diabetic eye
disease created wholly or in part by high blood sugar in
diabetics.
What Can Be Done To Prevent Eye Disease?
It stands to reason that the more informed a person is about a
particular situation the better equipped they will be to handle
it. Diabetic eye disease is just such a case in point. We need to
think of the whole person and not just the eyes when discussing
diabetic education because diabetic complications run from eye
disease, heart disease, nerve damage, kidney damage, etc.
Although benfotiamine has been found useful for all of the above,
for the sake of this article in terms of prevention, we will
discuss diabetic eye disease in terms of diabetic
retinopathy.
Diabetic retinopathy is a disease that every diabetic faces
the possibility of suffering from somewhere in the course of
their disease. The better patients of diabetes are equipped to
handle their disease, the lower their risk that they will develop
retinopathy. If retinopathy does develop in a patient who is
doing all he/she can do to lessen the impact of blood sugar on
their bodies, the better chance that they can live productive
lives despite the complications and the slower such complications
will progress.
What Works Best?
Unfortunately, there are very few options that are showing
much promise for the diabetic in terms of diabetic complications.
Benfotiamine has been suggested recently to be a strong deterrent
against the development of diabetic retinopathy and also shown to
slow its progression significantly if it develops. It is showing
great promise in the arena of retinopathy, neuropathy and
heart/circulatory conditions brought about by excess sugar in the
cells.
Benfotiamine, a lipid soluble derivative of water soluble
vitamin B1 (thiamine), has been used for the past 12 years in
Europe for the treatment of neuropathy, retinopathy as well as
heart and circulatory conditions and has shown no adverse
effects.
Much of the current research on benfotiamine can be discovered
by typing the term benfotiamine into a search engine such as
google, AOL, yahoo, etc.
Conclusion
Diabetic complications are a reality that must be an accepted
possibility for every diabetic. Diabetic education is highly
necessary so that the diabetic community is able to make informed
decisions as to their treatment and prevention methodologies.
There are few things that show great promise in preventing and/or
helping neuropathy, retinopathy, heart and circulatory problems
brought about by diabetes. Keeping blood sugar levels close to
normal along with adequate exercise in line with the abilities of
each individual has shown to help slow the onset of diabetic
complications.
Benfotiamine is a nutritional supplement that has shown to be
helpful in Europe over the past 12 years in terms of diabetic
complications and is now available in the United States, and
might be worth the time to investigate further. How about for the
diabetic who faces the insidious nature of diabetic
complications?
Zach Malott is CEO of Brentwood Health International, a
nutritional supplement company involved in distribution and
supplying wholesale, retail and end users.
Mr. Malott is available to discuss the research as it applies
to benfotiamine in the treatment and prevention of diabetic
complications such as neuropathy and retinopathy. He can be
reached at:
Phone: 505.354.0526
web site: http://www.emuhealthproducts.com/benfotiamine.html
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