Diabetic Awareness
Have you been screened for Diabetes? Are you at risk?
Are you aware of the serious side effects this disease has when not controlled? These include glaucoma, kidney failure, heart problems, possible gangrene with the loss of lower limbs.
Diabetes can be controlled but detection is required
Everyone is at risk but the largest proportion of those found with diabetes are over 40. They are over weight and have little or no exercise regime. There are symptoms which are recognisable by the patient - sudden loss of weight, excessive thirst and the subsequent use of the loo, tiredness and blurred vision, to name but a few.
How are diabetics found?
There are many places to have a simple blood test, your doctor or practice nurse, some high street pharmacies including Lloyds Pharmacy.
Help us help you
Diabetes Awareness is a major Lions Clubs project and we are working with both Lloyds Pharmacy and Diabetes UK, both have many and varied leaflets and handouts giving details of who is at risk, how to deal with diabetes without letting it disrupting your life, diet, travel and driving.
Between the three of us, Lions Clubs, Lloyds Pharmacy and Diabetes UK, we can work together to find possible diabetics and guide them in the right direction to be treated and avoid those side effects above.
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