Diabetes education is key both to prevent it and to achieve better disease control and thus avoid complications in patients' health and the cost they suppose.These problems are, for example, cardiovascular, kidney or eye diseases, among others.
In this sense, the president of the Biscay Association of Diabetes (Asvida), Leticia López de Guereño, explains that "despite all the advances in the treatment of diabetes, patient education about their own disease remains a fundamental toolthat we should not forget. "With this premise the course "accompanying you in diabetes", aimed at patients with type 2 diabetes in treatment with oral antidiabetics and sponsored by Janssen, has been taught in the association.
As López de Guereño details, "people with diabetes, unlike those who have many other medical problems, cannot simply take some pills or insulin in the morning and forget about their condition the rest of the day." Therefore, the head of the head of theEndocrinology service of the Bilbao Cruces Hospital, Dr. Sonia Gaztambide, and one of the speakers of the course, inishes that, “it is very difficult for someone to do a series of things well if you do not teach him to do so.to be able to count in all hospitals in which there is endocrinology service with nursing professionals with experience in diabetological education. ”
In this sense, the diabetes educator, Yolanda Salgado, says that “when a patient knows the benefits of performing a series of care and the consequences of not doing them and, in addition, she is trained to be able to perform them, she is more motivated to integrate them intohis life ”.
without education there is no control
The joint work between the person with diabetes and their family on the one hand, and the team of educators and doctors on the other, is essential to adjust the treatment and, at the same time, to be able to integrate it into their dietary habits, schedules, habitual activity,Exercise, vacations, eat out of home or special chances.
That is, above all, it is about strengthening healthy habits in patients, such as the importance of carrying adequate diet, of physical activity regularly, and taking medication according to the doctor's guidelines.Without forgetting, how to manage in situations of hypoglycemia, gastroenteritis or other complications that may arise.
