Entering late autumn, it is the season of high incidence of various respiratory infectious diseases. One of the infectious diseases is especially common: influenza.
However, the physical quality of middle-aged and elderly friends is declining and it is easy to be recruited. Among them, there is a group of friends who need special vigilance.
Such friends are diabetics.
Influenza, diabetic [unbearable]
Influenza and diabetes, both of which often [collude], bring serious consequences to diabetics and greatly increase the economic burden of treatment.
1. People with diabetes suffer from severe influenza
Due to the decline of body resistance caused by diabetes, the consequences are often more serious once diabetics suffer from influenza during the season when influenza virus is rampant.
Some studies have shown that diabetics have serious complications, such as pneumonia, which are more than three times higher than those of influenza patients without diabetes, and diabetics need hospitalization and even death due to severe influenza, which is much higher than that of non-diabetics.
2. Influenza Affects Blood Glucose Control
After people get flu, their bodies need to be resistant to viruses and are in a state of stress, with fever, muscle pain, cough and runny nose. However, such a state often leads to an increase in blood sugar in diabetics and may even induce ketosis.
In this way, influenza and diabetes form a vicious circle. Influenza increases blood sugar, and the increased blood sugar further aggravates infections such as pneumonia caused by influenza. The two collaborate, making diabetics miserable and the cost of treatment rising.
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This is the flu vaccine.
On the basis of good blood sugar control, diabetics receiving influenza vaccine can effectively prevent serious infection and serious complications such as hyperglycemia and ketosis caused by serious infection.
< < Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in China (2013 Edition) > > > It is recommended that diabetics aged ≥ 6 months should be vaccinated with influenza vaccine every year to prevent serious infection caused by influenza.
Other infections and diabetics should also be on guard.
Like flu, there are also some infections, such as hepatitis B, which are often eyeing up diabetics. Everyone should also pay attention not to be exploited.
Similarly, it is recommended that everyone be vaccinated to prevent these infections:
- All diabetics over 2 years old, Must be vaccinated with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, patients over 65 years old, if they have been vaccinated before, and the vaccination time exceeds 5 years, need to be vaccinated again. Diabetes patients aged 19 ~ 59 years old, if they have not been vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine, should be vaccinated. Diabetes patients aged ≥ 60 years old, if they have not been vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine, can consider vaccination.