Nuevo Laredo.- From the figure of 5,000 patients attending the 76 Social Security Clinic, approximately 10 percent are not taken, that is, 500 people mainly young adults, said Rogelio Flores, director of the unit.
“Young diabetic patients do not take care of themselves, they think that they will never die, that nothing will happen to them and it is not;There is the difference, the adult person over 50, takes careThey reveal, ”said the doctor.
He stressed that when the patient is not controlled, they support the internist, since the lack of good metabolic control leads to having to use insulin.
"When we tell them that insulin will be given people scare, there is the taboo that it leaves them blind, that damages their organism, but in reality it is not so," Flores said.
The obligation of the family doctor is to inform the patient the risk of diabetes, what are the stages of development and that after 5 or 10 years, health deteriorates and complicates with problems in view, loss of sensitivity, amputation, amputation,heart disease, hypertension and renal failure among other evils.
"Unfortunately these complications are at the earliest time, especially in patients who do not control and end with hemodialysis treatment to help their kidney do their function that is to eliminate bad toxins," said the doctor.
There is currently a waiting list of about 36 patients, some of them are up to 16 years receiving hemodialysis, in which a cadaveric donor arrives, since the relative does not always want or can be kidney donor.