The Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians celebrated in Santander the II National Diabetes Days in which it organized three practical workshops to teach the public the appropriate diet, the care of the diabetic foot and the way of acting before a hypoglycemia.
In diabetes nothing is prohibited except ignorance.This phrase could summarize the axiom that must know those who suffer from this chronic disease whose alarm signs are hunger, thirst and weight loss, and that affects around 70,000 Cantabrians -a 13.8% of the population.
This pathology is experiencing a significant increase as a consequence of incorrect life habits -obesity, lack of exercise and poor diet.To update the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians (Semergen) up to date, the II National Diabetes Days, in which three new workshops dedicated to addressing fundamental aspects in Santander in Santander were also held in SantanderThe education and improvement of the quality of life of these patients: 'Attitude to hypoglycemia', 'Diabetic foot care' and 'the food of the person with diabetes'.
These activities, which were organized jointly with the Cantabrian Association of Diabetics and developed at the Cantabria Medical College, were open to the public and registered an important influx.
Cristina Manzanares, a family doctor, was in charge of imparting the workshop entitled 'Person's feedway that has gone from the restriction of many foods to nutritional balance.
However, for these patients the diet is a basic pillar and must be motivated to follow some life patterns: balanced feeding and physical exercise, because diabetes does not hurt and this makes therapeutic fulfillment more difficult than in the case of othersdiseases.
It's about eating everything in small quantities.«Between 45 and 55% of what is ingested they must be slow -absorbed carbohydrates - vegetables, legumes, non -refined flours, cereals, potatoes and dairy products - to provide glucose at an adequate speed and patients may burn wellLipids.
In addition, it is necessary to flee products such as industrial pastries and refined sugars to avoid sudden increases in glycemic levels, ”he explained.
The diabetic foot focused another of the workshops on which doctors and nurses taught the participants knowledge about adequate hygiene, which includes a correct drying and its posterior hydration, as well as the way of cutting off the nails to prevent them from being embodied,since this could cause small ulcers that, in the case of these patients do not heal and can trigger in the subsequent amputation of the member.
In addition, tips were offered to detect the minimum injury that could arise and taught attendees to know whether or not a shoe is adequate.
The workshop entitled 'Attitude to hypoglycemia' also had a practical character aimed at guiding both patients and family members about what to do if a decrease in sugar occurs.
To do this, it is necessary to carry any sweetener and ingest it to the first symptom.If these episodes are severe, nearby people must intervene by administering to the glucagon patient, a drug that the doctors taught to handle and that occurs in a preloaded syringe that is injected subcutaneously.
In the meeting, in which almost 300 doctors participated, a day of issues such as the simplification of the therapies through the latest generation,The control of the disease, the individualization of the treatments or the difficulties in the therapeutic fulfillment of the patient.
suffer from it without knowing it
The president of Semergen in Cantabria, Guillermo Pombo, warned that one of the main problems of diabetes is that a large majority of the patients - something more than 40% - do not know that this pathology suffers, so they become without diagnosingUp to five years with the associated risk that this entails and the deterioration caused by the lack of treatment.
In addition, of the two types of diabetes that exist, that of type II - which is the one that affects 90% of the patients - "is increasing by leaps and bounds" as a consequence of the incorrect lifestyles, so he warned ofthat in a few years this disease could reach an incidence of 20% among the adult population, and one in three people over 65.
For this reason, Pombo insisted on the importance of those over 45 years"If the disease is taken in its beginnings, the pathology it has associated can be controlled and delayed."
The meeting also served to end some myths.Thus, the president of the Conference, Francisco Carramiñana, said that you can eat everything in small quantities, and said that “amputations, blindness and the prohibition of ingesting sweet are currently myths of the past, since if the patient carries aProper control of diabetes, their life expectancy is equal to that of any other person ».
