This post is about describing who Diabetes Health Care Team are, there is no doubt that you must have come across these in one article post or the other, but you simply don't know who they are, what they do, what help do they offer to a person living with diabetes.
Monitoring your diabetes is a life time work, you must monitor it everyday, as long as you live, its like a daily routine. At the journey of treating your diabetes, you may come across some set of wonderful individuals that will help and guild you through the challenge that diabetes may unveiled and also to make you a better person you've ever dreamed of. They will provide to you a "Diabetes Treatment Plan' that will help you remain healthy and allows you do things you like to do in your life.
Your Diabetes treatment involves you as the main actor in a movie, its all about you, the diabetes health care team are also there because of you, as a child, your parent have a part to play too, because they carry your burden and they are ready to help you in all areas. Diabetes Health Care Team consists of:
(I). The Doctors
(ii). Dietitians
(iii). Mental Health Experts
(iv). Certified Educators on Diabetes
(ii). Dietitians
(iii). Mental Health Experts
(iv). Certified Educators on Diabetes
These wonderful people will assist you in developing a treatment plan that you will follow. So, during your medical routine Inspection in a clinic or hospital, you may meet one or more members of these diabetes health care team:
(I). The Doctors: These doctors are professionals that deals with the diagnosing and treatment of children that have disease of the endocrine gland like growth disorder and diabetes. They are called "Pediatric Endocrinologist".
The Doctors may run some tests on you, which will be taken into record, this includes checking several parts of you body. Your blood pressure, your blood glucose level, and a urine sample. Your Doctor can assist you in learning a lot of things about diabetes and any additional health problem you might possess.
After getting treatment recommendations from other diabetes health care team members as necessary, your doctor will list on paper what you will need to control your diabetes in a treatment plan(diabetes management plan).
Consider the Doctor as your Diabetes team care team instructor. Doctors writes information's prescribing how the Insulin should be used alongside other medications and might direct you to other Expert if there is a need for you to.
Do not hesitate to talk to your doctor. Ask a lot of questions from him/her and ensure that you understand or know the meaning of all of the answers, if not, ask more questions for more clarification. As a child, if you can not ask your doctor questions in the presence of your parent, you can request to talk to your doctor privately which I think will be granted. So do not be ashamed or shy to say what's on your mind(anything at all).
(ii). Dietitians: Dietitians are professionals in the aspect of meal and nutrition planning. They can teach you about how food affects you blood glucose level and ensure that you are getting enough food to grow and develop properly. Some few questions will be ask from you by the dietitians when you meet. He/She will like to know how you eat food on a regular basis and your activity levels.
THE DIETITIAN WILL:
* Create changes to your meal plan, relating to the types of exercise you do, and your habit style of living.
* Assists you in learning how to select a healthy food choice
* Teach you how to read and understand food labels and figure out ways to detect the carbohydrate content of foods when food labels are not present there.
* Recommend certain numbers of tasty snacks ideas
* show you how carbohydrates is been determined and meal planning methods.
(iii). MENTAL HEALTH EXPERT: A counselor, Psychiatrists, Psychologist. Any of these people can be your Mental Health Expert. They can render a huge help to people living with diabetes. Dealing with diabetes can be frustrating at times. As a teenager, you may feel different from your friends or ashamed to give yourself insulin shot during academic session at school. In these kind of situation, the Mental Health Expert will help you get through that.
Mental Health Expert can assist you concerning some of the problems you may be coping with, either at home or at school, so never hesitate to ask for advice. They also can strategize ways capable of helping you control your diabetes.
TAKE NOTE:
* You can't manage your diabetes all by yourself
* You can always rely on members of the team to assist you
* Don't hesitate to ask question from each members
* They will always help you based on the experience they have in sorting out ways to help people cope with diabetes.
(iV). CERTIFIED EDUCATORS ON DIABETES: Certified Educators on Diabetes possess special skills in helping people living with diabetes be able to manage their diabetes. Certified Educators on Diabetes educates you about what diabetes is and how harmful it can cause the body system.
They will do the following:
* Teach you certain procedures on how to give yourself insulin injection or insulin pump.
* Teach you how to use a blood glucose meter
* Let you know how to test your blood glucose level
* To make changes on your insulin usage when exercising.
* Control high and Low blood sugar levels
* Examine your home equipment to ensure that readings are measured correctly
* Make one-on-one conversation about any problem or challenges you might be experiencing with diabetes.
* Do some assessment about your diabetes management goals together with you
