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All posts tagged Diabetes
11
OctFor patients with diabetes, colds and flu present challenges
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Cold and flu season presents unique challenges to your patients living with diabetes. You’ll need to make specific recommendations to help them prevent and manage their symptoms, and at the same time, you’ll need to make them aware of diabetes management issues for sick days.
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05
OctHelping your patients with diabetes and skin disorders
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The skin offers a window to what is happening inside the body, so changes to the skin may signal a more serious health problem, often serving as a marker for underlying internal disease. Read more
07
SepBack to school strategies for managing Type 1 diabetes
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Many pharmacists need to interact with parents of children living with type 1 diabetes who require support at school. Read more
31
AugWhat are the signs of prediabetes and how can you help your patients?
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Approximately 25% of Canadian adults have prediabetes (meaning almost one in four adults who come in to your pharmacy!), and approximately half of these individuals will develop diabetes. Read more
24
Aug5 patient tools you need to know about for diabetes management
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Patient education is a key component of pharmacy practice. Read more
10
AugWeight management for your patients with diabetes
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Since some 80-90% of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese, it’s important to understand which pharmacotherapies exist for weight management. Read more
03
AugMeal replacement products and Type 2 diabetes
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The 2013 Canadian Diabetes Association’s Clinical Practice Guidelines included the use of meal replacement products for the first time. Now they are seen as a possible useful weight management tool.
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27
JulHelping your patients manage their diabetes
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Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in Canada. It’s time to take a 360-approach to achieve results. Read more
13
JulDiabetic nephropathy – how you can help your patients
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The kidneys have millions of blood vessels, and since diabetes is really a ‘disease of the blood vessels’, this means the kidneys are very susceptible to harm. Read more
06
JulHow can you help your patients with diabetes manage their blood testing?
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Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has been challenged in terms of its cost effectiveness for people with type 2 diabetes who do not use insulin. Read more
