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Respected Doctor,
My father's age is 62Years. He has lost he weight around 12Kg's (from 82kg to 70kg) in past two months without any diet control or any other extra physical regime. He is not feeling any weakness or any physical unfitness.
All is a noticeable change is he feels more hot in this summer. He used to avoid cold fridge water & sitting in A.C. but these days he drinks a lot of cold beverages & sits in A.C. for long hours.
He has high blood pressure since 15yrs no diabetes (checked 6 months back).
Kindly advice the reason of drastic weight reduction and feeling more summer.
Best Regards,
Ravish G. Chandwani
+ 91 90990 13176
E: revieraoverseas@gmail.com
Submitted:
4 Days
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Family Physician-GP
Hello,
Thank you for your medical query at DoctorSpring.com
I understand your concern.
12 kgs in past 2 months is significant weight loss, and complete set of investigations are required for a diagnosis.
Was any ultrasound abdomen done recently? Any history of coughing/ fever/ evening rise of temperature? How is bowel and bladder movement? Does he smoke/ drink?
Kindly give a list of investigations done recently or if any other investigations have been done in the recent past, please mention in the follow-up. I will also advise a thyroid profile for him.
Hope this was helpful,
Regards.
Respected Doctor,
Thanx for your mail. As to your query there is no dibetic history and my father does not smoke & drink.
Yesterday we did the sugar blood test of my father where the results has come as below:
Bl. Sugar F/P/R 388.8 Bl. Sugar F/P/R 601.0 S.Creatinine 1010 S. SGPT 20.90
Physician has started medicines for 15 Days and has told us to get the sugar test again after 15 days to decide if will contiue medicine or will switch to insulin injection.
Medicines for 15 days are as below:
1 Tablet- 20 Min before Breakfast: SITAGLIPTIN PHOSPHATE & METFORMIN HYDROCHLORIDE TABLETS (JANUMET) 50MG/500MG
1 Tablet - 20 Min before Lunch & Dinner: METFORMIN HYDROCHLORIDE (SR), GLIMEPRIDE AND VOGLIBOSE TABLETS (ZORYL-MV 2)
You are kindly requested to advise on the above and also advise us in this high sugar level till it get control what all precautions, diet etc we need to take and how to control it asap.
Kind Regards,
Ravish
He has Type 2 diabetes, and since it was not diagnosed before, the symptoms got so worse and he lost so much weight.
The medicines seem adequate for now, but he may need insulin therapy, so it depends on the sugar levels after 15 days.
Please avoid sugar, oily and fatty foods, and he should also try to exercise for 30 minutes daily. Just brisk walking will do considering his age. With adequate diet control and medicines, his sugar levels will come down.
Please update me his repeat sugar values once you have them.
Regards.