Treatment of diabetes is based on six pillars:
1. Meal Plan: A meal plan goes beyond what we understand by a diet. A project must be individualized to each person’s needs, preferences, and should include objectives related to achieving optimal weight, employment status, availability and so on.
2. Exercise Plan: Featuring the same features of individualization in terms of food preferences, goals and so on. The ideal is to reach at least 30 minutes of active physical exercise, preferably aerobic (brisk walking, cycling, rowing …).
3. Medication: There are many different pharmacologic provisions of Diabetes. What matters is that you strictly observe the rules that your doctor tells you so much in terms of dosage and schedule, list of medications with food, alcohol precautions, driving etc.. Consult a healthcare professional. Most drug treatments for diabetes can cause hypoglycemia (dangerous descents in the number of blood glucose) and you should know how to avoid and how to treat them if they occur.
4. General hygiene habits
a. NO SMOKING Perhaps the main advice that all patients with diabetes should receive is not to smoke.
The snuff is an important cardiovascular risk factor in all citizens but the increased risk incurred in
diabetics is much higher.
b. The develop habits that allow regular and orderly life, with times of meals and regular sleep, exercise
schedules for scheduled and so on. They are highly desirable.
c. The care and hygiene of the diabetic foot and skin in general should also be considered.
5. Self-management plan means a diabetic patient should be instructed in basic techniques of self-manage their illness and learning of the basic actions to be undertaken before the most common incidents, schedule changes, decompensation, hypoglycemia, intercurrent diseases and so on. In order to achieve the highest degree of autonomy as possible.
6. Regular checks:
a. A key part of diabetes treatment is related to periodic inspections, not only in relation to the analytical testing to support the conclusion or alter the remainder of the treatment, but those related to early detection of complications of the disease. This includes early detection of diabetic retinopathy through periodic review of the fundus by a competent professional, detection of microalbuminuria for screening of kidney damage, regular monitoring of blood pressure, overall cardiovascular risk assessment with tests that are necessary and so on.
b. Regular checks should be used for diabetic patients and the professional who attends to evaluate the objectives and readjust.
The team of professionals who treat a patient with diabetes, you must set according to the patient, the guidelines and objectives to be achieved in each of these areas, adjusting everything to the preferences of the patient and making him privy to the objectives and results, for the most feasible means to remove barriers and promote attitudes that achieve good control.
Patient education in diabetes, a process which integrates all the training and information contained in all the points highlighted above, has emerged as one of the most effective actions to achieve the objectives of a good control of the disease.
