Patient associations alert about the proliferation of offers on therapies without scientific basis.They ask the authorities for a greater disposition to combat them.
The Internet becomes many cases in the focus of confusion and bulos on health that can be a real danger to patients.It happens in any field that affects various diseases.One of them, diabetes, due to its high prevalence, is usually subject to attention in the digital speeches of charlatans that are presented as experts in the field.
A website is dedicated to promoting the method entitled “Revert diabetes”, and among the messages they launch are to offer the possibility of producing more insulin in a natural way and regular the blood sugar levels of patients type 2.This offering more than questionable information in which the traditional medical care and scientific evidence is questioned.
"These types of bulls do a lot of damage to society in general and generate false expectations among many patients"
Patient associations have these types of initiatives that only create confusion between users and patients of the National Health System with information based on the prevention of type 2 diabetes with medical tips of scientific basis.From the Spanish forum of patients, they explain to Consalud.es that "from a while to this part we are attending a proliferation of Internet messages on therapies without any scientific basis."
Faced with this reality, from this forum they are committed to "put this type of bulls that do a lot of damage to society in general and that generate false expectations among many patients, some with very serious diseases."Patients denounce "the lack of provisions of the authorities", a fact that makes different health entities launched direct actions against these alleged therapies.
What is type 2 diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by persistently high levels of blood glucose, as a consequence of an alteration in insulin secretion or action.Type 2 diabetes is characterized by resistance to it, which is usually accompanied by a relative insulin deficit.It is the most common form of the disease and it is a chronic pathology.
Most patients suffer from diabetes mellitus type 2 or adult (90%) that is basically treated in primary care.Type 1 diabetes or youth infant (10%) and gestational diabetes is treated by endocrinology.