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Sensitivity in Diabetic Foot
One of the major complications for diabetics is the deterioration of the nervous system, which may lose sensation in the feet and not notice a wound or injury. The exercise, however, is extremely beneficial to these patients, so finding the right shoes is vital.
Diseases such as diabetes and / or arthritis should not be an impediment to exercise. Exercise has many benefits for these patients because it improves the circulation of the limbs, maintaining joint mobility, and weight control. But we also need to pay attention to find the right footwear. They must follow certain basic rules, how to avoid shoes that are too loose, too tight or too small.
The diabetic patients also should check your feet every day, wash with warm water and mild soap, dry them gently, especially between the toes, and if you find an injury visit to a doctor immediately. It is also important to add moisture cream with good quality, without applying it between her fingers. The nails can be cut in a straight line without touching the fingers, and ideally do with a file, not a nail clipper.
Best avoided at all costs going barefoot or in sandals or shoes with very high peak and how to purchase shoes in the afternoon when feet are most swollen. Read the rest of this entry »
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Take care of feet, skin, teeth and eyes for diabetes
It is important to schedule regular appointments with specialists to check the health of your eyes, your teeth, your feet and your skin. You could detect early problems related to diabetes as sores or dry skin. Diabetes affects the smaller blood vessels in your body. These smaller vessels are most often in your eyes, kidneys and nerves.
People with diabetes are more likely than the general population of blindness, cataracts and glaucoma, but can minimize their risks by managing their blood glucose. In addition, detection and early treatment of eye problems can save your sight.
Diabetics are also more likely to gum problems, because a poor control of glucose in the blood increases the risk to suffer from gum problems. A simple dental hygiene, like brushing twice a day, use floss, take regular visits to the dentist, will help avoid problems.
About half of diabetics have some form of nerve damage or neuropathy. Nerve damage can make you insensitive, and therefore, you ignore pain or other problems, especially in your feet. It’s not as if your feeling lost in your feet. But it is just lighter than it should be. So a person who has a diabetic nerve damage can walk with a wound on a foot long, and it can cause infections and amputations. Make a routine inspection of your feet will help.
In addition, the nerves of the legs and feet can not get the message to sweat, which is necessary to keep the skin soft and moist. Keep your skin well hydrated when you have diabetes is one of the easiest ways to prevent skin problems.
Other tips for managing your diabetes
* Avoid alcohol,
* Keep up to date vaccinations,
* Do not smoke,
* Monitor cholesterol,
* Monitor blood pressure.
Male sexual dysfunctions
Diabetes can cause if you do not have a control and monitoring of the same, many diseases and related problems. Among these there are multiple problems that affect both sexes, but one of those problems directly affect people with diabetes, especially a “bad diabetes.” We refer to male sexual dysfunctions.
Male sexual dysfunction can be caused by disorders of erection, ejaculation, orgasm, tenderness and sexual desire. Diabetes that is not properly controlled will gradually damage the blood vessels, arteries and veins to increase the options of having a male sexual dysfunction due to physical reasons.
In this regard the patient with diabetes should control their disease in order to avoid, as far as possible, this type of diseases, among others. However, we must not forget that many men suffer from sexual diseases without having poorly controlled diabetes, so you can not do a strict relationship between dysfunction and diabetes, although between diabetes and dysfunction.
Of the various sexual dysfunctions listed above the most common and feared are erectile dysfunction and impotence. In addition, this type of disease increases the chance of psychological problems due to the nature of the disease and the mood of a patient with poorly controlled may be suffering depression or other similar problems.
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Balanced diet to prevent heart disease and blood vessel
Specialists in atherosclerosis have focused on Saturday at Oran, on the need to follow a balanced diet to protect against various diseases and cardiac arteries.
Professor Malika Bouchenak researcher nutritionist at the University of Orana, stated during the proceedings of the 4th congress on arteriosclerosis, that this health problem has grown in Algeria in recent years because of alteration of nutritional mode. Diet plays an important role in prevention against this disease that requires a balanced diet, “she said. She also called Anglo-Saxon as’eloigner plan known as “Plan westerns. The speaker noted that diet adopted in the Mediterranean region is based mainly on vegetables dishes whose virtues contribute fully to reduce heart disease and arterial sclerosis as arteriole, saying that Algerian society still seems to preserve scheme. Lunch said the nutritionist, is crucial for the human body especially for patients suffering from these diseases and diabetes, before turning to preventive nutrition practices of arteriosclerosis. Participants at the meeting called for coordination between cardiologists and nutritionists to better care for patients while providing a psychological interest looks like, considering the stress one factor triggering the disease that can lead to death. Participants further stressed the need for a regular sports, insofar as it constitutes a balanced diet, a complementary medical treatment. The Association of Physicians for the Prevention of Oran has organized the fourth edition of this congress which was attended by experts during two days in Algeria, Germany and France.
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Diabetes can affect adolescents’ sexual maturity
Diabetes can have serious implications for adolescents who suffer, because if not controlled during this stage, they risk among others, failure to achieve proper sexual maturation.
The Institute for Diabetes Prevention and Education in Peru, warned that teens who do not control diabetes are not only at the risk of being small in stature, but also risk failing to achieve adequate maturity and keep the voice and body of a pubescent.
At this stage of life is at best should beware, advises Dr. Olga Nunez, of the Institute. However, in this period is usually when the children prefer to do what their contemporaries are as consuming junk food and go to bars or cafes.
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Diabetes and Blood Pressure
Diabetes increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (affecting the heart and blood vessels). Therefore, your doctor may have made the following recommendations:
* Monitor cholesterol levels and treat them if they are high (it may be that your target rates are lower than for people without diabetes);
* Taking drugs against heart conditions (ACE inhibitors or antagonists, angiotensin) to protect your arteries;
* Are taking aspirin low dose every day – with your doctor determine if you should AAS;
* Monitor yourblood pressure and treat it if it is high (your target blood pressure is probably lower than for people without diabetes).
What can you do to help control your blood pressure?
Ask your doctor about your blood pressure target. Monitor your blood pressure regularly as recommended by the doctor. Many pharmacies sell blood pressure monitors that you can easily use at home. If you find that your blood pressure numbers are higher than normal, tell your doctor. There would need to adopt some changes in lifestyle (see below) or take medication (or combination of drugs) to lower your blood pressure.
Some measures that help control your blood pressure:
* Follow a diet low in fat and salt (eg. The DASH diet);
* Exercise regularly;
* Maintain a healthy weight;
* Reduce your consumption of alcohol;
* Try to give up smoking.
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Diabetes Type 1
There are two main types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes cause blood sugar levels are higher than normal. However, both can cause this effect in different ways. Type 1 diabetes (formerly called insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes) occurs when the pancreas loses its ability to produce the hormone insulin. With type 1 diabetes the same person’s immune system attacks and destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Once those cells are destroyed, never again to produce insulin.
Although nobody knows for certain causes, scientists think it has something to do with genes. But genes do not generally have sufficient reason to have diabetes. Probably a person must have to be exposed to something else, a virus, for example-and type 1 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes can be prevented and there is no practical way to predict who will gain. There is nothing that the parent or the child had done to cause the disease. Once a person gets type 1 diabetes, the disease does not go away and requires long life treatment. Children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes depend on daily insulin injections or an insulin pump to control levels of blood glucose.
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Diabetes Treatment with Insulin
Most patients achieve good control with diet alone or supplemented with oral antidiabetics. A third of insulin needed for complete compensation.
Rapid Action:
It has crystalline appearance, starts working after half an hour of injection and its effect lasts 6-8 hours.
It is not necessary to shake the vial before use.
Delayed-Action:
Its effect is less rapid but more sustained, is achieved by the addition of substances that give their retardant cloudy Intermediate action may be, acts at 2 hours after injection and its effect lasts 12 to 24 hours.
The long-acting start acting 2-3 hours and its action comes after 24 – 36 hours.
It is necessary to shake the vial gently rotating the palms, to homogenize the product.
The technique of insulin injection:
The injection should be carried out completely after loading the jeringilla. Should be flushed before the skin with an alcohol swab. With the index finger and thumb of the left hand pinch the skin and subcutaneous tissue, forming a crease where the needle is inserted perpendicular or oblique slightly by region. The injection is subcutaneous fat in there underneath the skin.
Before injection we must ensure we did not punctured a blood vessel, which is checked by gently pulling the plunger and check that no blood appears in the jeringilla.
The insulin injecting each time in a different place, this prevents hardening and bulges.
The injection sites are the anterior part of the thighs, on the outside of the arms, buttocks and the front of the abdomen.
Nurses should teach correct technique and expliacarle that she should be normal and lose their fears and concerns.