The
latest medical devices to control the level of sugar in the blood will be
revealed through Emirates Fifth Conference of diabetes, which will start its
activities next Thursday at the Dubai World Trade Centre for Convention and
Exhibition, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al
Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance,
Chairman of the Health
Authority
This
small device can be put only on the patient's hand without the need for the
prickling to
take a small sample of blood to see the level of blood sugar,
where the device works on a permanent reading and therefore easier for the
patient during communication with the competent doctor to reduce or increase
the dosage or the proportion of insulin taken by a patient per day to adjust
the sugar level in the body and avoid complications.
:3000 doctors
Dr. Abdul
Razzaq Almadany Diabetes and Endocrinology consultant and President of the
Emirates Diabetes Society, said that the conference, which will be attended by
nearly 3,000 specialist doctors and staff nursing, and in collaboration with
the American Association of Endocrine will discuss the latest developments
related to diabetes in terms of medicines and new drugs devoted to adjust the
level of blood sugar in addition to new hormonal drugs that have been recently
put forward in the global markets, as well as how to avoid complications
associated with the disease, and the processes banding or cutting or stapling
the stomach to reduce weight, which enables the patient to control the sugar,
pointing out that obesity is one of the most important causes of disease as
well as genetic factors and lifestyle change.
:Cumulative
examination
Dr.
Almadani said: self-censorship by the patient is the best to control diabetes,
pointing out that the cumulative examination is globally adopted by federal
Diabetes years ago proved that it is ineffective in controlling sugar level
because it gives the reading of sugar level rate in the blood for the last
three months, pointing out that the sugar may rise long periods then fall and
thus the approximate reading isn't inaccurate.
He
pointed out that diabetics should check on the level of sugar daily and
communicate with the competent doctor to either increase the dose or reduced,
and stressed on the need for patient monitoring to avoid the silent
complications caused by the disease, and an examination every three or six
months of the retina, the blood pressure, cholesterol, kidneys, limbs and
arteries to see the performance of those members and avoid health problems
caused by the disease.
:Database
Dr.
Abdul Razzaq Almadany called for accelerating the establishment of a unified
data for patients with diabetes at the state level to find out the real numbers
of diseased people, stressing on the need for education and training of
medical, educational and nursing staff on how to deal with the patient and
directed him to follow the correct dietary patterns and how many calories they
need according to the length of the weight and others.