Sister Parminder Rihal, Diabetes Specialist Nurse talks about looking after your Diabetes around having a surgical procedure. She talks about general issues with having good glucose control with diet and exercise. She explains that good glucose control makes healing much more predictable and using the word intensify for glucose control.
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We do get sometimes, you know, patients like waiting for a foot operation or some certain eyes operation. So, you know, they need to have a good control prior to operation. So, when we see that the patient has been referred to us, we intensify the treatment and then intensify again with a diet and exercise. We tell them, you know, eat less or reduce portion of carbs, regular exercise, add lots of fruit and vegetables. So once the control is good, so they can go for operation because the risk are, if their diabetes is poorly controlled and they go for operation, it affects the healing and they can also have other complications which can trigger like heart attack or stroke. and people are, it's very risky to have an operation if they have a general anesthesia or local anesthesia. So then they have to intensify prior to operation. They need to have good control.
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