Telemedicine, option to attend diabetes during pandemic

Due to the pandemic, many diabetes patients stopped being treated, which generated an lack of control, which caused Covid-19 deaths.

Telemedicine or virtual medical consultations came to stay as part of the teachings left by the Covid-19 pandemic, since they threw favorable results in the control and treatment of diabetes, said María Emilia Salazar, Country Manager of the Doctor Anytime portal.

During the virtual press conference: "Diabetes: the other pandemic", said that video-conference technology to attend to this chronic-degenerative disease is a great ally, because it allowed patients to stay at home, without exposing themselves to the virus in the virus in theTransfers and visits to the doctor, in addition to being a 20 percent cheaper mode.

He stressed that studies in hospitals in France, showed that telemedicine is very effective for the attention of type I and II diabetes.

"They examined at the end of the tests a total of 6,170 patients, between 13 and 71 years, and the results were really favorable; the results demonstrated a significant decrease in average glycosylated hemoglobin, in the groups that used telemedicine with tests that lastedMore than 6 months, and adults who are over 50 years old were also benefited, "he explained.

Meanwhile, Fernando Orozco, president of the Mexican Association of Nurses in Nephrology (Menac), said that unfortunately people suffering from COVID-19, developed diabetes during confinement or while they were admitted to some hospital, so the number of patients withThis disease will increase and the need for attention.

"The recommendation is to comply with prevention measures, such as getting as little as possible, staying at home, not exposing yourself to the risk of the virus, because they have a high vulnerability to the disease, and must have a lot of adherence to medical management and treatment", he said.

For its part, Irma Ceja, medical manager of Endocrinology and Nutrition of Grupo HurdDiabetes complications.

"And that is where the possibility and feasibility of telemedicine enters, which somehow brings us closer to people and allows us to attend and continue the treatment of diabetes," he said.

Well, much does not convince me because by phone the doctor doesn't even look at you ..

I understand that if you need to see, can you make videoconferencing, right?

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I understand that if you need to see, you can make videoconference, no?

The problem is that sometimes it is not only to see ... you also need to explore

I agree with you, but it is also true that many times, with the call is more than enough, right?

That is what I wanted to say, explore .., of course, for the endocrine because it can be worth but for other things.

It is a movie theme.On the one hand the professional must be there.It is as if in the wars of before, the campaign doctors had said that they entered for the injured after the shots pass, instead of entering rear and escorted, but entering those injured on the battlefield and taking them outFrom there before they are discouraged and worsen.
And another point is that the patient can reach the case of a self -diagnose (and easier today, that this occurs, because we are more made to the online formations; since before the pandemic and to look for Google or Wikipedias)
It is as if tomorrow, the plumber connects me online, and in video conference I show my sink and my home toolbox.It tells me that key to take, where to place it and how to turn it to put the piece that previous photo that I send me, buy in the hardware store.
As I will have learned, next time I will avoid all this and before a similar case ( that can give the same symptom in the sink, but requireA different solution ), believing that I know what I have to do, I will do it alone.moving from the professional.
This is the big problem.I think the health professional must be there, protected and escorted but it must be.And if it has to be after a screen at some point (in fact because I do not go to the medical center and there it serves me behind a transparent, or plastic PVC screen, such as in the hardware store, or the fish market ......Or giving it more twist, because not the fishmonger goes up to the genre and I select what I buy, I connect with him and I say how I want me to cut it and then someone approaches me home .....), perfect, but only until the war ends, because if it feels precedent, what I explain more than once will happen.That said, the subject is very hairy.

It seems to me that the postpania trend, if one day it ends, it will be that, telemedicine, so the quality of assistance will be much worse than it was.Everything to cut expenses of what is being paid now.
You just have to watch the television ads of private medical insurance companies that already offer their telemedicine as an option to public health.Insurance will now be cheaper but when they have a higher percentage of customers, prices will not stop.

I have to work in person, I work in a residence because the toilets also go to work as always and attend as always.Well with the security measures that we all have to have.
The telemedicine option does not seem anything well.