Semergen and Fede promotes the improvement of visual attention in people with diabetes

For this they have launched “Look for your diabetes”, a visual health campaign and diabetes to which more than 1,000 optics have already adhered.

The General Council of Optics-Optometristas (CGCOO), the Visual Health Foundation (FUNSAVI), in collaboration with primary care doctors members of Semergen, and the Spanish Federation of Diabetes (FEDE), have launched the campaign ”Look for your diabetes ”, whose main objective is to promote better visual care for patients with diabetes in sanitary optics establishments.

This initiative aims to encourage diabetes to perform periodically visual exams in optics to prevent and detect the most common complications that this pathology causes in vision, such as diabetic retinopathy, as well as to control changes in visual acuity ofThese patients.

The initiative aims to encourage diabetes to perform periodically visual exams in optics to avoid and detect vision complications "by the time the person develops the symptoms of diabetic retinopathy, irreversible damage has already occurred in the eye", explained Juan Carlos Martínez Moral the President of the General Council of Optostista-Optometrist Colleges.“For this reason, it is essential that people with diabetes review their eyes regularly, and in the case of people with type 2 diabetes this review must be done without waiting for symptoms of visual disease to appear, since it could be too late”

For his part, Andoni Lorenzo, the president of the Spanish Diabetes Federation (FEDE), has stressed the alarming data in our country in this regard: “Approximately 26% of patients with type 1 diabetes and 36% ofType 2 have never been subjected to an eye exploration, a simple test that helps detect diabetic retinopathy and can be performed by an optometrist optician. ”

José Luis Llisterri, the president of the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians also recalled that "early diagnosis and proper treatment can stop vision loss."

In this context, all those who have or believe to have diabetes can approach the nearest optics sanitary establishment that is attached to the campaign, where a review of the Fund's Fund without dilation of the pupil can be carried out.In addition, these optics will have informative leaflets with the Fondrisk test, a quick and simple questionnaire intended to prevent type 2 diabetes.