Blood Glucose Levels
Device used to monitor blood glucose levels
What is a glucose monitor?
What diabetics need when they have a low blood glucose (hypoglycemic)
What is sugar?
Caused by genes and some environmental factors (ex. exposure to a virus)
What is type 1 diabetes?
Short-term complication fixed by sugar consumption
What is hypoglycaemia?
Your patient's blood glucose level is 3.6 mmol/L
What is a low blood glucose level? (hypoglycemia)
The hormone needed to regulate diabetes
What is insulin?
True or False - There is a cure for diabetes
False
Retinopathy, Kidney disease, Hypertension, Ulcers, Neuropathy
What are long-term effects of type 1 diabetes?
Your patient's blood glucose level is 16.7 mmol/L
What is a high glucose level? (hyperglycemia)
Insulin given before each meal time and as a correction dose (short-acting)
What is bolus insulin?
What percentage of diabetics have type 1?
10%
Loss of sensation in peripheral extremities
What is neuropathy?
Your patient's blood glucose level is 6.6 mmol/L
What is a normal glucose level?
The main nutritional content diabetics need to focus on to correspond with an insulin dosage (i.e. fibre, sugar, fat..)
What are carbohydrates?
Cells attacked by own body in type 1 diabetics
What are Beta cells?
A wound that takes a long time to heal or may never heal
What is an ulcer?
A blood test that determines a person's average glucose level over a three month span
What is an A1C?
Providing education and support, while working collaboratively with other health care professionals
What is a nurse's role in helping a patient manage diabetes?
Was this presentation on diabetes mellitus or diabetes insipidus?
True or False - A type 1 diabetic's lifespan is shortened?
True