hello we are going to talk about coronavirus and diabetes today I know
you guys with diabetes are wondering what to do with this corona virus I've
been getting a lot of patients in my practice as well regarding koruna virus
and we are going to talk about what corner virus is and how to avoid getting
corner virus and if you do get a corner of ours really what you should do you as
a diabetic now number one is a diabetic you are
really at high risk for four corner virus so basically what you need to do
is stay away from the public areas that you have close contact with people
moreover if you are and shaking try not to but if you do make sure you have
frequent hand-washing the hand washing techniques are very important as well if
you are just washing the palm of your hand and you are avoiding the back of
your hand that may be a problem so try to pay attention to wash your hands
thoroughly and try to disinfect the areas that other people may be touching
especially in metro areas where there's a lot of traffic and try to keep a
distance from other people who especially may have signs of sickness so
if you can try to keep your personal hygiene and trying to keep yourself away
from people especially people that you do not know that may be a good step to
start coronel virus can be contagious even when patients are asymptomatic and
then you may end up getting symptoms 2 to 14 days after exposure so what do you
do really after you get a corner virus so hopefully you never get it by
avoiding the problem however if you do get it you need to first of all self
quarantine yourself make sure that you do not go to work make sure that you do
not go outside of your house unless it's absolutely necessary make sure you wear
a mask so you do not actually other people and tight-fitting masks are
generally more helpful but but also the contact can happen through the eyes as
well so you have to pay attention to wearing some eye protection as well now
you do not need to wear a mask and eye protection just to try to get protected
from the disease but if you have it you should wear it so that you do not infect
other people but also it is more recommended to stay isolated so you do
not really have any contact with other people
again this disease spreads very quickly it tends to affect people with chronic
conditions like diabetes there's a result if you have diabetes you may be
at high risk of getting the disease and God forbid dying from the disease is
CORRECTION: MORE likely NOT HIGHLY LIKELY. now if you have travel plans I would recommend to
postpone those plans at least until this problem goes away it may not happen in
the next few months so maybe delay your your travel plans for at least around
six months or so to be on the safe side especially if you're going for a cruise
if you are traveling by airplane you should definitely help your plans in
terms of driving around I think you're still safe however I would not go to
areas that you do not know about the coroner virus situation and I would
definitely do not go into public places where a lot of people cluster together
since you cannot really avoid staying away from people coughing and sneezing
and so forth the symptoms are generally coughing it could be fever and if you
have a fever you will really feel rundown and it's gonna feel like flu and
the symptoms of Koerner virus actually is worse than the flu and the death rate
is more than the flu so as a result if you feel like you are having any sort of
cold symptoms due you don't have to have a fever I think you should isolate
yourself get tested if you can get tested for a corner virus it is become
more available but I think as a patient with diabetes your priority is to avoid
getting a disease and if you do have a disease make sure you stay at home
hydrate yourself make sure you rest it try not to work and then if your
symptoms get worse you start getting shortness of breath and productive cough
and so forth you should definitely go to a hospital
if you are running a fever that's another indication for you to go to the
hospital these things can go to your lungs can turn into pneumonia and can
turn into septic shock and that's how these people tend to tend to die from
coronavirus the people with diabetes and other chronic health conditions have
suppressed immune system and are more prone to be defeated to the coronavirus
so if you guys have any questions concerns please let us know and I hope
you can pass the season with no problems and don't panic just stay stay with pay
attention to your hygiene Stevie from other people with possible
symptoms if you know somebody who had coronavirus and you had a contact with
it may not be a bad idea at all to isolate yourself even if you're not
symptomatic at that time now also one more last thing if you have diabetes and
you have corona virus your body will start creating a stress response you may
have a lot of internal steroids running in your system or your doctor may
prescribe steroids whatever the reason it may be the stress
in your body will cause high blood sugars for type 1 diabetics that means
that you need to monitor your blood Sugar's more often monitor your ketones
if your blood sugars are running high and stay hydrated that's very important
for patients with type 2 diabetes you still need to monitor your blood
sugars and if it's going high if you're on insulin with type 2 diabetes you may
want to use more insulin consult with your doctor to see how much more insulin
you you may need again monitoring for ketones is necessary for type 2 if the
blood Sugar's are really really high about 400-500 for
type 1 diabetics 10 is above 250 blood sugar but for type 2 diabetics I think
you just start monitoring your ketones if it is more than 400 500 and you
should not be staying at 400 500 levels so please contact your endocrinologist
or diabetes specialist to make sure that your blood Sugar's under control
immediately if you do not have a sliding scale insulin or any other medication
that can bring your blood sugars down very quickly then then and if you are
not able to achieve your get your doctor on time you may want to go to ER before
it's too late as well again remember when you are sick from any condition
doesn't have to be corn or virus your body may need more medication more
insulin if you are on insulin in order to control your blood sugars and not
everybody responds the same if your appetite goes down so much that you
don't eat anything that may also cause low blood sugars especially if you are
on certain agents that can trigger a low blood sugar so the bottom line is
monitoring more often at least four or five times a day will give you at least
an idea about where here's where you're standing
in terms of your blood sugars again thank you for watching and I hope you
can pass the season with health and happiness