The prevention that vaccination and active immunization of the population can bring can represent the foundation on which we lay the further protection of the diabetic patient, claims a well-known diabetologist.
The International Diabetes Federation has designated November 14 as Diabetes Day, to draw attention to this disease, which is particularly prevalent throughout the world.
Prof. Dr. Bogdan Timar, dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Timișoara, diabetologist, spoke in an interview DC News and DC Medical, about the importance of flu vaccination in the cold season and about the comorbidities that make the diabetic patient vulnerable. Thus, the person will have a greater ability to eliminate infections.
According to him, immunization at the beginning of the cold season can reduce the risk of patients getting infected.
“If we were to think about people with type 2 diabetes who represent the majority of cases of diabetes, i.e. approximately 90-95% of all cases of diabetes, among these people we very often encounter comorbidities, other conditions, which make the patient vulnerable in the face of infection”, explains Prof. Dr. Bogdan Timar.
“People with type 2 diabetes are usually overweight or obese. Very frequently they also have cardiovascular or renal diseases. Very often they can have lung damage including sleep apnea syndrome or certain mechanical difficulties related to ventilation capacity so that all these components together with the age, usually older of people with type 2 diabetes, can compete and can leads to decreased prognosis. Among these people with diabetes we have a less good prognosis of an infection when it occurs. So we can easily realize that people with diabetes are more vulnerable to both viral and bacterial infections,” the diabetologist told DC News and DC Medical.
Vaccination may be a solution
“Among viral infections, we must think about this season, a season in which flu virus infections begin, we cannot forget the SARS-CoV-2 virus infections that still exist, and if we were to refer to the infections bacterial, among these people with diabetes, pneumococcal pneumonia is the most common, a lung damage caused by pneumococcal infection”, states Prof. Dr. Bogdan Timar.
Prof. Dr. Bogdan Timar claims that “if we want to reduce the risks these people are exposed to, vaccination can be a solution. A vaccination that can be carried out either against the influenza virus or against the pneumococcus or against the two agents that are very frequently incriminated and occur very frequently among this vulnerable population”.
What can diabetics do to avoid health problems in the cold season?
“Regarding the prevention of illness, the prevention of the occurrence of flu or infectious infections, vaccination and active immunization of the population, especially the vulnerable population, is very important, which makes people with diabetes have a recommendation to vaccinate both against the flu and against pneumococcus, especially at the beginning of this season to reduce their risk of becoming infected and to improve the prognosis because when a person is actively immunized, that person will have an increased ability of their own body to eliminate infections “, Prof. Dr. Bogdan concluded for DC News and DC Medical.
2023-11-14 19:31:57
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