DIABETIC NEUROPATHY

Involvement of nerves caused by diabetes. Patient feels decreased sensations over affected areas. It also affects sex life

Undergoing A Surgery - Relax

Preoperative Instructions For Patients

Everybody likes to be healthy throughout life and nobody likes to visit a doctor. If one has to undergo a surgery that to for the first time in life – This may lead to a lot of stress and anxiety.

Preoperative Instructions For Patients

1. Avoid stress.

The risks involved in surgery have gone down in last few years due to availability of the latest technology in medical field.

2. Make friendship with doctor

If you have any doubts, discuss with the doctor, physician, surgeon, anaesthetist.

3. Surgical videos

Nowadays surgical videos are available. If patient requests, doctor can show him a few surgical videos which will help in relieving anxiety. Diagram and charts showing surgery details are also available.

4. Surgeon's experience

Surgery - Though it may be for the first time in the patient’s life, surgeons are doing it regularly. So for the surgeon, its a regular job. So relax. Everything will be fine.

5. Bad effects of stress

If patient is under stress, this may cause increase in blood pressure which can lead to postponement of surgery or more bleeding during surgery.

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Good sleep essential

6.Good diet

Good diet is very essential before and after surgery. Protein and vitamin ( especially vitamin c) rich diet will help in wound healing. Discuss with the dietician. Specific diets are available for patients with kidney, heart, liver problems. Diabetic patients should be very particular about diet as alterations in sugar value can lead to postponement of surgery or can affect wound healing .

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Vitamins

7. Surgical complications

Though complications can occur during surgery, though keep on thinking that it will happen with you. If you think of rare complications, you will be rarely correct. Complications don’t occur during every surgery and even if they occur, most of them are manageable and only a few of them cause a real threat to life.

8. Blood group

Know your blood group. For some major surgeries, your surgeon and anaesthetist will ask you to keep blood ready. In such cases, one should be in touch with blood banks and inform blood banks in advance. Nowadays due to risk of HIV, its always better to accept blood from a close relative or a friend whom you know well. If such person is not available? Don’t worry. All the blood which a blood bank collects, gets screened for HIV, hepatitis B, C viruses by the most correct scientific methods.











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