Making Ready for Diabetes Surgery

Once you are sure that you need a surgery, plan a preoperative visit to your surgeon

. Inform you surgeon that you are a diabetic. Remember, never take your diabetes easy, no matter how minor the surgery is, always speak up to your surgeon. There is a famous maxim that minor surgery is what happens to someone else; yours is always major.

Whether it's a minor or major surgery, it's always being a very painful and stressful experience you and your body has. If you are a diabetic, always has a check of you blood glucose. In case you need an emergency surgery, speak up to nurse or available doctors and tell them that you are a diabetic and your blood glucose needs to be brought down under control. It is always recommended to diabetic patients to keep or carry identification as a diabetic, for any unpleasant situations. Also tell your close friends about this fact to guide the doctors about your diabetes before any treatment.

Besides telling you surgeon, it is better to inform the admitting nurse and all other unit nurses that you are diabetic and also tell them that how often you monitor your blood. Note you need not to bring your own blood glucose monitor; hospital administration will supply one for you.

As far as diet is concerned, you can talk to the hospital dietician about your liking and disliking as a diabetic. Normally, the food available in the hospitals is not pretty much eatable or palatable; especially diabetic diet is the most awful. But still talking to dietician may help you in getting something palatable or eatable. It is all on chance or your luck to get good healthy food in the hospitals. It is not necessary to stick to the hospital food for your diet. Your close friends and family can bring you delicious home made healthy diet. Even many restaurants are more than willing to deliver food to you in hospital.

If you are into taking oral hypoglycemic agents, you may be advised to cut down the intake of it a day or two before the surgery. You might be introduced to insulin during this phase. But this all depends on your blood glucose level and its stability, the type of medication you take and the past experience of the surgeon. Diabetic's blood glucose is monitored constantly during the course of your surgery.

Once the surgery has been done, the postoperative goal is to stabilize your blood glucose for two vital reasons: High blood glucose decreases the number of fibroblasts cells in the blood, which are vital for wound healing. Also the elevated blood glucose delays the production of white blood cells, which are there to fight and prevent infection.

Once you are home, you need to check your blood glucose quite too often than before. Also you may need to have a meeting with your professional diabetes educator for having a quick advice for postoperative meal plan.

Making Ready for Diabetes Surgery

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