Managing Diabetes in Winter

This is a spring season video that highlights how spring can affect people with diabetes.

Dietary recommendations for gastroparesis are designed to minimize symptoms while keeping patients hydrated and nourished. The basic GP diet calls for small, frequent, low-fat, low-fiber, high-protein foods and liquids which are easier to digest. Many diet plans call for a 3-step process, beginning with a liquid-only diet and then progressing to soft-foods (low-residue, low-fat), and eventually, a maintenance diet (which adds just a bit more fat as well as some well-cooked, easy to chew foods).

Dr Mushtaqur Rahman, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist explains the different settings in which people are looked after with Diabetic Foot problems.

Dr Sunthar Kanaganayagam, Consultant Cardiologist at Imperial College London, talks about how Coronary Artery Disease develops. He explains the series of events which occur for arteries in the heart to fur up, resulting in narrowing.