Presentation 4

1. Healthy eating
 To help control blood glucose, blood
fats and adequate body weight
 Healthy Eating
 Regular carbohydrate
 High in fibre
 Low in fat (particularly saturated fat)
 Low in added sugar
 Adequate energy /protein/fluids/vits
and mins

2. Exercise / activity
 30 minutes moderate intensity most days preferably all
 Helps to:
 Increased insulin sensitivity
 Decreased insulin requirements
 Weight reduction
 Lipid control
 Blood pressure control

3. Insulin andtablets
 Type 2 diabetes treatment may be
 Healthy eating
 Healthy eating + tablets (several different types of
tablets may be on combination of tablets
 Healthy eating + tablets + insulin
 Healthy eating and insulin
 Type 1 diabetes always require insulin
 May have long acting 1-2 times a day
 Short and long acting 1-4 times a day
 Continuous – insulin pump

4. What you needto know!
 Blood glucose level that is considered low
 Signs and symptoms
 Causes
 Plan of action to treat
 Strategies to prevent hypoglycaemia

5. Symptoms
excessive hunger
headache
profuse sweating
feeling dizzy/shaking
pins and needles
around mouth

6. Cognitive impairment
 Symptoms of cognitive impairment
Lack of concentration
Altered vision
Peculiar behaviour
Loss of consciousness

7. Nocturnal hypoglycemia
 Symptoms may include:
 Sweating
 Vivid dreaming
 Restlessness
 Incontinence
 Waking with a headache
 High or low fasting levels

8. Treatment
Treat hypoglycaemia with quickly absorbed
glucose (15 gm carbohydrate in total) eg.
100 ml Lucozade
150 ml lemonade
5 Jelly beans
4 Jelly babies
3 heaped teaspoons of sugar
3 glucose tablets

9. Treatment
 If symptoms have not resolved in 5-10 minutes treatment
needs to be repeated.
 Followed up initial treatment with carbohydrate which is
more slowly absorbed
eg. Sandwich or fruit