Diabetes Management
How your community pharmacy cares for patients with diabetes ...
Diabetes Screening
Diabetes has been described as the silent pandemic with 280 Australians developing the disease every day. That’s one person every five minutes.
About 1.7 million Australians have diabetes. – including all types of diagnosed diabetes (1.2 million known and registered) as well as silent, undiagnosed type 2 diabetes (up to 500,000 estimated).
If you include those with pre-diabetes, the total number of Australians with diabetes and pre-diabetes is estimated at 3.2 million.
However, up to 58 per cent of cases of type 2 can be prevented and we know that good blood glucose control and maintaining a healthy lifestyle can significantly improve the complications associated with diabetes.
Pharmacies providing blood glucose testing play an important role in diabetes screening and management. The importance of blood glucose control is critical in diabetes. When someone has diabetes, their body can’t maintain healthy levels of glucose in the blood and the tests can screen for these levels.
When people with diabetes eat glucose, which is in foods such as breads, cereals, fruit and starchy vegetables, legumes, milk, yoghurt and sweets, it can’t be converted into energy. Instead of being turned into energy the glucose stays in the blood resulting in high blood glucose levels.
Advice
Blood Glucose Testing
Self-blood glucose monitoring allows you to check your blood glucose levels as often as you need to or as recommended by your Diabetes Educator.
Medicine Adherence
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Diabetes Australia
Diabetes is the epidemic of the 21st century and the biggest challenge confronting Australia’s health system.