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SMART-CONTROL DIABETES PACKAGE 5 days hospitalization 1000 lei

The goal  The screening protocol is to improve symptoms, biochemical control and prevent complications.

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One in four people over the age of 65 suffers from type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and one in two older people suffers from prediabetes, and the proportion increases with age.


The most commonly used definition / classification of the notion of the elderly from a medical point of view divides the elderly into three categories:

 

  1. "young" elderly, 65-74 years old;

  2. middle-old age, 75-84 years;

  3. old age, "oldest" -old ", over 85 years.

 

elderly  those diagnosed with diabetes or those with diabetic symptoms will be included in a special follow-up and treatment program. Correct follow-up of the diabetic patient can only be done in a multidisciplinary team, which includes specialists, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists and mental health specialists with experience in diabetes.


Screening involves:


evaluation  functional status (physical and / or cognitive)
Nutritional assessment
Medication evaluation 
Performing the set of medical tests:
•   blood glucose (blood glucose level) - Fasting, another time of day
•   glycosuria (urine glucose level)
•   oral glucose tolerance test (induced hyperglycaemia - method of diagnosing diabetes with borderline glycemic values)
•   glycosylated / glycated hemoglobin (average blood glucose over the last 3 months expressed as a percentage)
•   TGP, TGO
•   Total Serum Cholesterol
•   Serum Creatinine
•   triglycerides
•   Urea Serica
•   Serum Ionogram
•   ESR

The evaluation of the stage of the main chronic complications are:

•   Cardiovascular disease - leading to heart attack, stroke. Doctors say that more than 50% of patients with type 2 diabetes already have vascular complications at the time of diabetes diagnosis.

•   Eye problems - called diabetic retinopathy. By affecting the retina, diabetes is the most common cause of blindness.

•   Nerve damage - diabetic neuropathy. Nerves can be affected in various parts, leading to numbness or parasites. Paresthesia is manifested by spontaneous signs such as tingling, redness of the skin - cardboard skin, numbness.

•   Kidney damage - diabetic nephropathy. In this complication, the kidneys no longer function partially or completely.

•   Skin infections or conditions. Diabetic dermatitis.

•   Diabetic foot. Pain, ulceration, biomechanical changes or even amputations due to diabetic neuropathy.
 

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