Diabetes and gum disease. Keeping your mouth, teeth and gums healthy is an important part of managing your diabetes.
Diabetes UK explains how diabetes increases the risk of developing heart disease, which can lead to heart attacks and strokes.
This patient.info page discusses high blood pressure and the effect it can have on your diabetes.
Kidney Care UK resource about diabetes and kidney disease. This page explains what diabetes is, how it affects the kidneys and how you can look after your kidneys if you have diabetes.
Diabetes UK resource sharing a patient's journey with diabetes and kidney failure. Debbie – who went through two years of dialysis – talks about the mental, physical and emotional aspects of her journey.
National Kidney Foundation resource about diabetes and kidney disease. Diabetes can damage kidneys, leading to failure. Treatment includes dialysis, kidney transplant, and tight control of blood sugar and overall health.
Research indicates that people with diabetes have a higher risk of oral health problems, including gum disease , thrush and dry mouth.
Diabetes and Menopause
The relationship between diabetes and sleep can be complex. Getting enough quality sleep is important for good health and wellbeing, but sleep problems can be common for people living with diabetes, and getting a good night’s rest can be easier said than done.
This leaflet explains how steroids affect blood glucose levels, how to manage any changes in blood glucose levels and how to reduce and stop steroid treatment.
National Kidney Foundation UK resource about diabetes and the kidneys. One of the complications of diabetes is kidney disease, also called diabetic nephropathy. This can affect up to a third of people who have diabetes.
This page contains a brief overview of the effects of diabetes on the kidneys.
This leaflet provides information on managing your diabetes during travel.
Diabetes UK page that explains how diabetes can affect you emotionally as well as physically.
Diabetes and Your Kidneys
A build-up of diabetes distress can tip into periods of “diabetes burnout” where a person with diabetes might start to avoid self-management tasks for more significant periods of time; this then has the potential to impact upon their physical health.
Support from an appropriately trained healthcare professional can be really helpful for people with diabetes distress or burnout. But there are many self-help actions you can take, both to overcome and also reduce your likelihood of experiencing burnout.
Diabetes UK guide to managing your care plan.
Living with an unpredictable health condition can be extremely challenging, so it is understandable for people to experience some difficult thoughts and feelings about their diabetes. Watch the following video to learn more about distress and burnout.
This link opens your diabetes personal care charter, which is a checklist of you and your clinicians actions and responsibilities.
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