In response to the social need for diabetes prevention, the Ministry of Health of Michoacán (SSM), through the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, and with the support of the Eli Lilly Laboratory, will carry out the training workshop training of maps trainingof conversation about diabetes.
According to a press release, in the world of esteem that more than 382 million people live with diabetes, and in Mexico it is estimated that 9.2 percent of adults have been diagnosed with this disease.
Therefore, Erika Marcela Cabreba Castañeda, in charge of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, announced that the SSM will strengthen its detection and prevention actions institulating conversation maps as an educational strategy addressed to the patient with patient with patient withDiabetes as a tool that allows systematizing actions to perform to achieve the goals and objectives aimed at improving the quality of life of the Michoacians.
Conversation maps are visual tools designed to establish a conversation;It is a group education program through which patients participate in verbal and visual learning that helps to better internalize the information received.
For this strategy to be a reality, a training workshop will be held to the eight sanitary jurisdictions, to personnel of the aging program, as well as to personnel of the General Hospital Dr. Miguel Silva.
According to the Ministry of Health, diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs when the body cannot produce enough insulin.There are three types: 1, whose exact cause is unknown and mainly affects young children and adults;The 2, which is the most common and with which the body can produce insulin but this may not be sufficient or the body does not respond to its effects, and gestational, it is presented during pregnancy and responds to the lack of insulin production orto the incorrect use of it by the body at this stage of life.
The most common symptoms of diabetes are: need to urinate frequently, loss of energy, hunger and thirst constant;Likewise, the risk factors are: genetic, unhealthy diet, sedentary life and overweight or obesity, and the main complications of diabetes are eye, kidneys and nerves, as well as cardiovascular diseases.
If there is the presence of one or more of the previous symptoms, the recommendation is to go to your closest health center in a fast or more fasting and request the glucose test, which is completely free and available 365 days of theanus.
It is worth mentioning that doing 30 minutes of exercise daily reduces by 40 percent the possibilities of contracting type 2 diabetes;Similarly, the increase in fiber intake and the decrease in consumption of refined sugars and saturated fats is recommended.
