Diabetes is a disease in which your personal role in your treatment has an important effect on the quality of your life. Your health care team will give you guidelines to follow for personal routines that can help you enjoy a more normal life. As a diabetic you will want to devote a little more attention to some of your personal care than you may have done before. Your health care team will provide you with specific hints concerning care of your skin, feet, and teeth. Maintaining good skin cleaning habits can help your skin remain healthy and protect your body effectively. Promptly treating minor injuries such as burns, cuts. and bruises helps your skin heal properly and avoid problems.

Your health care team will explain that, because decreased circulation in many diabetics is often noticed first in the legs and feet, attention to foot care can help you maintain good function. Avoiding poor diabetic control can help you avoid other problems such as vascular system difficulties, kidney disease, and eye difficulties. Your health care team will also instruct you about general hygiene, what to do when you are ill, what to do when traveling and eating out, what to do about social drinking (if you are permitted to do so at all by your physician), as well as sexual concerns. If you are elderly, your health care team will tell you about special arrangements for your home health care.

Your family’s emotional adjustment to your diabetes will also important concern. which your health care team will discuss between you and members of your family. Your family’s health education should begin right away. Family members. will quickly learn that diabetes Isn’t contagIous and Isn’t transmitted by any kind of physical contact. As you and your family learn to live the diabetes, you will all become familiar with common acute and chronic complications and their possible prevention, how to recognize circumstances warranting a call to your health care team, skills such as blood and or urine testing, and, if necessary, injection techniques. Your health care team will assist you in living comfortably with your disease by providing continuing education during each visit.

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