Diabetes grows during the Christmas season

During this Christmas season, consultations for diabetes in emergency rooms they grow up to 40%, because patients suffer from decompensation, eating and drinking excessively, or interrupting their medical treatment.

According to information published by the excelsior.com.mx , in just four weeks, people can reach up to five kilograms for the consumption of foods rich in carbohydrates and fats, which in the specific case of diabetics causes such a severe lack of control in the body, that it can even lead to diabetic coma .

In Mexico, the diabetes is a disease out of control, because only half of the 12 million people who suffer from it, know it. In addition, of those six million, only 300 thousand patients have adequate control.

Gisela Ayala , educator on issues of the disease of the Mexican Diabetes Federation, A.C. (FMD) points out that "... Many people think that at this time a control holiday can be given, but a chronic condition does not have any break , both diabetes as the hypertension have to continue receiving care every day. "

The specialist emphasizes that among the main problems are the change of schedules and the omission of meals, that is, people make only one very strong throughout the day, which means that they stop taking some medications that were indicated with food .

In addition, the lack of exercise It adds to the factors that can lead a diabetic to emergency rooms on these dates.

"There has to be a balance between medicines, feeding Y exercise so that the goal of having levels of glucose adequate, not only in December, but throughout the year, "said Gisela Ayala.

The specialist points out that having healthy habits would change the fact that December is the month where complications arise in patients diabetics . And you have healthy eating habits?

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