Management

For people with Type 2 or Type 1 diabetes and their families, close partnership with the diabetes healthcare team is critical for diabetes management.

Although smoking is harmful to everyone, people living with diabetes are already at an increased risk of heart disease and stroke, so smoking compounds their risk.

Avoiding sugar is the most common diet concern for people living with diabetes.

No one likes to be in hospital, but the reality is that people living with diabetes are more likely to have a hospital stay. At any given time on a hospital medical ward, about 25% of the people there have diabetes.

Checking your feet when you have diabetes is very important, as foot problems can develop quickly. Some of the issues that can arise include neuropathy (numbness, tingling or pain in your legs or feet), wounds (known as diabetic foot ulcers), callus build-up (patches of thick and hardened skin), dry or cracked areas, as well as cartilage and muscle damage. Daily ...

Proper foot care is important for everybody, but especially for people with diabetes. That’s because your feet can suffer if your diabetes is not well-controlled.

We often hear scary stories about foot problems for people with diabetes. If care is taken it doesn’t have to be that way!