The doubt of whether a person with diabetes has some type of limitation is often raised when performing his work and if his situation will condition a decrease in terms of their effectiveness and/or their safety at work.
According to the Diabetes Foundation, diabetes does not involve any disadvantage for the performance of any work.This is true so much for people with type 2 diabetes that are usually controlled with only oral lifestyle and antidiabetics standards of the so -called sensitizers, that is, they increase the effectiveness of the insulin reserve without stimulating the pancreas to which I secreteMore hormone, as for those who take oral antidiabetics who do stimulate insulin secretion.
Diabetes does not involve any disadvantage for the performance of any work.
To minimize the risk of hypoglycemia, a minimal adaptation of working conditions is enough, if there were no longer in their position, such as being able to perform the self -analysis of glycemia, allowing the administration of insulin to the workers who are treated with it for their usual self -control, have food or drinks in your position and maintain a certain regularity in food intake, as advised for any person without diabetes.
As the therapy intensifies, from low doses of pills to intensive insulin treatment, it could be thought that treatment will influence everyday activities.
However, both the administration of insulin and the determination of the glucose level only have a few seconds, so the degree of interference with the work activity is minimal.
The company must facilitate that the employee can make these stops to measure glucose, put insulin and/or drink carbohydrates.These stops do not usually mean more than once or twice for workday and just a few minutes.