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Diabetes

Basic Skills for Controlling Diabetes

Product Information
Produced in collaboration with
Catalog #: DB-29
Duration: 11 minutes
Format(s): VHS videocassette DVD Closed Captioned
Language(s): English or Spanish

Summary

This video introduces recently diagnosed patients to the survival skills they will need to put into action right away: making healthy food choices, taking medication, and self- monitoring. Regular exercise is also briefly discussed as a way to improve overall health.

Details

An on-camera host takes you through the basic skills needed to live well and control diabetes.

Diabetes care team members:

  • doctor
  • nurse
  • dietician
  • pharmacist
  • social worker
  • foot doctor
  • eye doctor
  • exercise specialist

How diabetes affects you:

  • Most of the food that people eat is turned into sugar that enters the blood stream and is used by the body for energy
  • In order for the body to use blood sugar, you need insulin

When you have diabetes, sugar has trouble entering the cells because:

  • there isn't enough insulin
  • the body doesn't use the insulin you have effectively

Sugar builds up in the blood, leading to high blood sugar. When you have high blood sugar, you have diabetes.

Having too much sugar in your blood over time can lead to complications:

  • blindness
  • kidney disease
  • heart disease
  • stroke
  • nerve damage and poor circulation can also occur, leading to amputation

If you control your blood sugar, your risk of developing complications is reduced.

Basic skills are:

  • making healthy food choices (Meet with a registered dietician)
  • taking medications if you need to (Two categories of medication: diabetes pills and insulin)
  • monitoring your diabetes
  • exercise

Making healthy food choices:

  • meet with a registered dietician.

Taking medication:

  • Two categories of medication:
    • diabetes pills
    • insulin

Monitoring your diabetes:

  • home blood sugar monitoring
  • being aware of symptoms of high and low blood sugar
  • test urine for ketones

Exercise:

  • help control your blood sugar, improve heart health , lose weight, and make you feel better
  • if you exercise and take medication for diabetes, you may need to change when and how much you eat, or the medication you take

Illness, such as a cold, flu or infection can raise blood sugar, so make a sick day plan.

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