Diabetes Management At Baptist Health
Baptist Health Floyd Diabetes Management
Endocrinologist Vasdev Lohano, MD, discusses the different types of diabetes and ways that Baptist Health Floyd can provide support to patients learning to manage their condition.
Baptist Health Diabetes Management Healthtalks Transcript
Vasdev Lohano, MD, Endocrinology
There are different types of diabetes. They have been divided into mainly Type 1, Type 2, and gestational diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a disease where your insulin is not working effectively. They are making insulin, but the insulin is needed to transport the glucose from the blood cells to the tissue level, but that’s not working effectively, so in turn, you have high sugars in your blood.
William Cook, New Albany, Indiana
I spent a lifetime getting this way, eating the wrong foods and enjoying those wrong foods. Combatting diabetes is a multifaceted endeavor. You have to monitor your blood sugar. You have to start changing your life as far as exercising and eating the proper foods.
Dr. Lohano
Anybody that has diabetes and wants to understand their disease and wants to take an active charge in controlling it, exploring different options that are available, we’ll be happy to see them. Our Baptist Health diabetes care program includes comprehensive support, education, nutrition services, and personalized therapy management. We not only treat just the sugar part of diabetes, but we also treat other co-morbidities because, at the end of the day, you really want to treat the patient as a whole.
