Five years putting insulin bombs in Huelva

The Endocrinology and Nutrition Unit of the Juan Ramón Jiménez and Infanta Elena hospitals, together with the Huelva Diabetes Association, have celebrated a training days to deepen the therapeutic advances in this disease, coinciding with the fifth anniversary since the placement of the first bombsof insulin in Huelva, one of the improvements with the greatest impact on the quality of life of patients with difficult control diabetes.

The meeting took place in the audience hall of the Juan Ramón Jiménez Hospital, a reference center in the province of Huelva for the implementation of these devices.The head of endocrinology and nutrition of the hospital, Isabel Rebollo, and the president of Huelva Diabetes, Mauricio Dueñas, have highlighted the opportunity of this interactive day in which endocrine, pediatricians, nurses, patients and family members have shared their experience with this therapy, which has allowed them not only to improve the control of the disease, but also to win significantly in personal autonomy and tranquility of their families.

A total of 18 patients with Huelva type I diabetes (2 of them pediatric) currentactivity they develop.
This therapy is indicated only in diabetic patients who do not achieve good control of the disease despite having optimized the available treatments, pregnant diabetic women, patients suffering from frequent hypoglycemia and also in those who suffer from a gradual increase in glucose due to certain certainhormones contrary to insulin and occurs early in the day -known as a phenomenon of dawn.

Insulin bombs consist of a small device that the patient has attached to his body that, through a catheter connected to a syringe, releases this substance.This reports innumerable benefits for diabetics that require intensive therapy avoiding having to punctuate themselves insulin continuously.

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When indicating the application of an insulin bomb, endocrine take into account various factors such as the patient's training and attitude to expand their knowledge about the disease and to be responsible for the control of it.

Therefore, once the reference endocrine indicates to a patient the convenience of using this equipment, it is inserted in an intense educational program consisting of several individual or group sessions during which fundamental concepts are emphasized for the use of this therapysuch as food management, the influence of physical exercise on glycemic control and the technical functioning of the pump, since these devices require knowing aspects such as programming, alarm identification or use of the fungible material, such as catheters or syringes.

This program is taught by the Diabetological Education nurses of the Huelva hospital complex, with a narrow monitoring of the endocrine.Once the educational process is finished, the implementation of the pump is performed at the Endocrinology Day Hospital, a structure oriented to those diabetic patients who need rapid and specialized care, but without the need to enter.This therapeutic process can be used indefinitely whenever the improvement that is intended to control the disease is achieved.

This meeting has been led within the citizen participation strategy that is developing the Huelva hospital complex with associations such as Huelva Diabetes, which encourages the exchange of experiencesAmong professionals, patients and citizens, creating collaboration links that favor the development of future projects for the benefit of citizens.

The inclusion of insulin bombs within the benefits of the public health system is a measure framed in the Comprehensive Diabetes Plan of the Ministry of Equality, Health and Social Policies, launched for an integral approach to this pathology, promoting healthy habitsand improving the quality of life of those affected.

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