Background: Primary Health Care is the first level of contact of individuals, the family and community within the national health system, bringing health care as close as possible to where people live and work. In Nigeria, diabetes care is absent at the Primary care level. Empowerment of workers within
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There is little formal diabetes care at the Primary Health tier in Nigeria. At that level, services have remained mainly focused on communicable diseases.
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Introduction: The goal of multidisciplinary diabetes care is to address the multifaceted needs of individuals living with diabetes by adopting a holistic approach for their management. It involves a carefully planned collaborative team work that provides support, education and care. The core components of multidisciplinary care include the development
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As important as the diet is in preventing diabetes, so it is in the treatment of individuals with diabetes. Some individuals with diabetes can control their diabetic state with dietary modification and exercise alone while others need to combine exercise and diet with medications. The diet of the individual
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Hypoglycaemia is very common in individuals with diabetes. If it is not quickly recognized and treated it can lead to permanent brain damage and even death. Drugs commonly used to treat diabetes like the various types of insulin injection; tablets like Glibenclamide (Daonil), Chlorpropamide (Diabenese), Glimepiride (Amaryl) can lead
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Cigarette smoking is one of the leading causes of avoidable death worldwide while diabetes has become one of the leading causes of ill health and death worldwide. While an individual with diabetes has a three-fold greater risk of dying from either a heart attack or a stroke than individuals
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Nerve damage is common in individuals with diabetes especially when the diabetes is of a long duration or the blood sugar level has been poorly controlled over time. Symptoms that can be experienced include numbness in the legs, feet and palms. Others are heat and peppery sensations all over
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Diabetes can lead to long-term complications in the eyes, nerves, kidneys and other organs of the body, hence the need for close self monitoring by people with diabetes in addition to close monitoring carried out by healthcare givers. This close monitoring helps to prevent or quickly detect these complications.
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Regular exercise is a very important part of the treatment of diabetes. Individuals with diabetes should however consult with their healthcare providers so that they can have some medical examinations carried out on them before starting an exercise schedule. This is so because some diabetic complications can be made
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