Diabetes Care
About
Diabetes is a chronic condition associated with the high sugar levels in blood and can affect each person. There are various types of diabetes, most known are type 1 and type 2.
Diabetes type 1 is an auto immune disease where the body does not produce insulin needed to control sugar level in blood.
Diabetes type 2 is a chronic metabolic disease where insulin is either not produced properly or not properly absorbed in the body.
Most common symptoms of diabetes are: increased urine output, excessive thirst, fatigue, itching skin, increased susceptibility to infections. On the long term, diabetes can lead to blindness, kidney failure, nerves damage or cardiovascular diseases.
Physical activity, healthy weight and diet and abstinence of smoking are the most important factors in preventing type 2 diabetes.
Target group
All patients with type 2 diabetes are eligible for diabetes healthcare in General Medical Practice De Makroon.
The procedure
As a diabetes patient, you will receive three times a year an invitation for the consultations with physician assistant. Prior those consultations, doctor’s assistant will collect a blood sample in order to control the sugar level and physician assistant will check your weight and blood pressure and will discuss your life style and medicine intake. Aside these consultations, you will have an annual diabetes consultation with your GP. Prior this appointment you will be asked to provide blood and urine samples for tests. GP will discuss the results of these tests with you as well all other issues and problems you may have in regard of your illness. Your GP and physician assistant work closely together in order to provide you proper diabetes healthcare, yet the main responsibility lays with GP.
Once a year, you will be also asked to undergo an eye fundus and foot examination. In individual cases other specialists, like dietitian, podiatrist or an ophthalmologist may be consulted.
Diabetes healthcare in our general medical practice is excluded from your obligatory deductible.