Diabetes is the body insulin secretion caused by absolute or relative shortage of metabolic disease. Can be divided into type 1 and type 2, which is also called non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. The symptoms are relatively light, and general diet therapy alone or with oral hypoglycemic drugs can control the disease, on the contrary diet control and medication improperly can be involved in all body systems. Once these systems are against the resumption of a slower, older patients with diabetes as a result of the aging of the system, poor immune function, concurrent diseases of the system more, so do the elderly home care patients with diabetes care workers, we have become a new topic Through many years of diabetes in elderly home care guidance, received a certain amount of effect, are presented below.
1 diet care
In strict accordance with the diabetic diet meal, because the family is the key to good care and diet, so the family members to explain the importance of diet to understand the causes and incidence of diabetes is closely related to the diet can not be taken lightly, according to hospital after doctor's request to be reasonable diet, and asked the family members of patients with diabetes do a good job of catering catering, and supervisors.
2 Skin Care
Skin tissue in diabetic patients with higher sugar content, suitable for bacterial growth, but also as a result of increased blood glucose, blood neutrophil activity slow, poor phagocytic ability, reduced bactericidal ability, coupled with reduced ability to block the formation of antibodies, so prone skin itching and infection, and not easily recovered after infection, for which must be ground bathing, changing clothes diligence and maintain the skin clean to prevent infections, skin infections, once found to timely treatment.
3 diarrhea constipation care
Elderly patients with diabetes because of autonomic dysfunction lead to constipation or diarrhea, for which family members should be kept under observation in patients with stool so that patients develop the habit of regular bowel movements to prevent constipation or diarrhea, constipation or diarrhea for patients after a certain use warm water to clean the skin around the anus to prevent infection, regulation of diet, reduce or increase the intake of crude fiber or drug treatment, review of blood glucose, urine sugar.
4 physical care
Elderly patients with diabetes lead to cerebral arteriosclerosis and peripheral neuritis, the performance of physical activities are not flexible, acromegaly, numb hands and feet, in home care in patients with more physical massage, heat blisters on hands and feet during the day and used to promote the physical and peripheral circulation in order to reduce physical not flexible and does not numb the pain and so on.
5 psychological care
Psychological care is an important aspect of home care, for families to learn and understand the psychology of knowledge, to help patients overcome negative psychological factors in the imbalance, so that patients maintain a good state of mind, have the confidence to overcome the disease to overcome the pessimism. To learn more about patients with diabetes mellitus is a common life-long disease, have a long-term thinking to overcome the disease, family members of patients to timely emotional guidance, to eliminate undesirable factors.
6 Notes
Nursing home care is the cause of the new development. Nurses to a week of elderly diabetic patients with home visits from time to time, the development of nursing and care to carefully fill out the responsibility system to record, summarize the experience of care, adequate supervision of patients taking hypoglycemic agents on schedule, regular review of blood sugar, urine sugar, adjusting the drug the amount of food, the timely detection of complications, prompt treatment.
