Nutrition Feature: Diabetes What A Diabetic Must Know!! Principles: 1.Nature Of Diabetes.
2.Diagnosis of Diabetes.
3.Methods of monitoring control.
4.Diet.
5.Oral hypogycemia agents.
6.Insulin.
7.Hypoglycemia, Foot problems, long term vascular and neurological complications and their prevention. Practice: 1.Urine and blood sugar testing methods, their cost,fallacies and pitfalls.
2.Dietary calculations and exchanges.
3.Insulin injection techniques, if he/she is on insulin therapy.
4.Details of Hypoglycemic agents being used, if any.
5.Sick-day routine.
6.Foot Care.
7.Prevention and management of hypoglycemia. Initial and Annual Check-Up of Diabetes, minimum requirements: Clinical: A detailed history and physical examination, including weight and height and blood pressure record and examination to detect any complications of the eyes, heart, kidneys, peripheral nerves and peripheral vessels.Examination of retina to be done after dilation. Lab Tests: 1.Complete Blood Count.
2.Urinalysis,Test for Microalbuminuria.
3.Review of data obtained from home blood glucose and urine sugar monitoring.
4.Fasting blood glucose, post prandial blood sugar.
5.Glycosylated haemoglobin(HbA1c)BUN,Creatinine.
6.Cholesterol,Triglycerids, HDL Cholesterol. Other Data: 1.Electrocardiogram.
2.Chest X-Ray. ********************************************* Meal Patterns Of A Diabetic | 
