The Endocrine Teresa Martínez will open today in Enrique Mariñas the first specialized clinic in all types of diabetes: "As far as there are two in Madrid, but for those of type 1".
Although he already set up one in the chiron three years ago, the specialist will attend to the new one of Matogrande to the bulk of those who suffer from this evil to follow control, which is the basis of the success that entails making a normal life without suffering important alterations.
In particular, children and young people who need to educate will be assisted so that they learn to live with diabetes without being involved trauma.
In the unit two specialized endocrine will work, two educators - one of them expert in the children's slope - and a manager who will also dedicate himself to technology.And it is that it is about updating the disease to the fullest and putting all possible means "to help make the disease better."
That is why the clinic is equipped with traditional meters, but also with insulin pumps with glucose sensors and what is known as the integrated system, which is the union of these last two elements: “The previous step to a pancreasartificial".The doctor says that in addition to physical care, they will dispense telemedicine to patients with the participation of other medical ones who will contribute their experience to the cause.
In this sense, he adds that the intention is that not only Coruña patients come, but they can also treat patients at a distance so as not to break their routines and go equal to the school or their job.With the little ones they will work so that they acquire habits from the diagnosis: "For them are the most leading technological advances."In addition, the clinic will tend arms with the other medical departments that are activated at the time an affected person has high blood sugar indices.
And now that life expectancy is greater, there are more chronic patients, who "in turn have more ramifications of their pathologies."In this way, your consultation will integrate all the organic implications that derives diabetes, psychological, family and social to be in permanent connection with the medical personnel from other areas with which it is related.In this sense, tools will be given both to those of type 2 with causes associated with overweight, life habits or lack of exercise, and those of 1, which is autoimmune, but of which agrowth.