Diabetes : Mother cause of all the diseases .
In the recent years I have come across Diabetes Patients in Hospital and seen the number gross in huge numbers. According to Official WHO reports in India nearly 63 Millions peoples are suffering from Diabetes and become the fast growing epidemic in every state of India. Like in Arunachal Pradesh the self awareness among the people for Diabetes is relatively low. The native people in the state usually have mixed food habits often eat red meat, prefer sour taste of bamboo suits, drinking home made alcohols of wheat and rice, drinking water without proper treatment, high consumption of sugar in terms of Milk tea, beverages and sweets staffs, less exercises, not prefer walking or using of public transportation etc.
I have come across a known person who have been suffering from diabetes from the year 1998 . I seen him while taking Insulin injection from that early years and now because of diabetes his condition is very bad that without the daily treatments his life span is countable.
He often take three dose of insulin every day as per the prescription of the Doctor. He told that starting treatment for Diabetes seem's to be controllable for some years but after that his health become deteriorating because of high blood sugar due to not maintaining his prescript food habits and lack of medical facilities in the area. In the state the facility of medical is poor and also less number of specialists doctors in some fields like for Kidney, Diabetes, hearts, surgical doctors.
One day I thought to enquire about his health condition and also got the feel to ask him about the causes of his deteriorating health , he told me about his early days which might be some of early stage for diabetes . He told that in year 1995 he was seriously suffering from Jaundice and Malaria because of lack of medical facilities he was referred to RK Mission, Itanagar for further treatment . After some weeks of intense treatment and care he was survived. He also told about his food habits like comsumption of red meat, high level carbohydrate diets, daily drinking of 4 to 5 cups of milk tea, drinking of beverages made of rice and wheats in some extend, bamboo suits.
After some years his health goes down and went to Itanagar for treatment. On treatment the Doctor asked him for some test and found to be a patient of diabetes. During that time awareness for Diabetes was very new for him and took the case not seriously. The Doctor asked him to take doses of insulin regularly . After that he started to take Insulin. But after some year again he went for check up and the Doctor prescripts some medicines to avoid uses of Insulin. In a year he told every quarterly his health started to deteriorate because of uncontrolled sugar level reaching 200 -350 during that time. Till then that he not continuously maintain his food diets.
Then I asked him what were the reasons for deterioration of health now. He told during year 2009 the sugar level were intensively high which leads him for bedridden for nearly 6 months . He said he was suffering from paralysis because of uncontrolled sugar level. He was admitted to RK Mission Hospital, Itanagar during his treatment for both Diabetes and paralysis. For some months he was unable to stand or move his legs and because of laying for prolong months his left leg got wounds develop of yellow plasma type fluids.Then he asked the Doctor for dressing of that wound but the dressing got over their was deep hole because of discharged fluids. Day's get passed by the wound did get heal as a result the condition get bad. The Doctor said this is the common problem that Diabetes patient face. The wound time to heal or sometime it may failed in Diabetes patient. During that time the doctor started to give him Intravenous therapy where drips were coated with silver films three times daily to heal the wound. After continuous infusion of drip the wound started to heal. During the mid of the treatment the Doctor prescripts him for Physiotheraphytime . During that time the doctor started to give him Intravenous therapy where drips were coated with silver films three times daily to heal the wound. After continuous infusion of drip the wound started to heal.
He had underwent treatment from Diabetes to
paralysis and after 6 months he got discharged . He remembered the
year 2015 due to diabetes he got
kidney stones of sizes of 14 , 08, 07 which was detected in MRI scan in RK
Mission Hospital, Itanagar and refer to Guwahati for further treatment. He told
one's he thought not to go because he was tried of medical treatment throughout
the life time but convinced by his family and went to International Hospital,
Guwahati.
In the hospital after the various tests the doctor told the shock
things about the kidney is that right side kidney is failed and the left kidney
is getting effected due to diabetes. He told he was broken but the
Doctor reconcile him that there are various treatment available to relief for
some period of years. But after some years of the medication and went for daily
check up he got the saddest news again that his both kidney failed. The Doctor
asked his willingness for Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)
operation in a term of Home dialysis. After gathering some thorough information , he opted
the CAPD operation with an expenditure of Rs 1.70 Lakhs (may varies). The Doctor told
him how to carry on home dialysis and told him to take care
of the wound on the belly where some kind of tube was fitted as for diabetes
patient the wound heal very slowly and because of that might led infection. For 4 -6 months, the home
dialysis was going fine but because of some kind of manageable factor he felt
cold during the dialysis , the skin of the body started to change in dark
complex and weight started to lose. He told CAPD operation did not suit for his
body as one's the doctor told that for this type of operation your diets are
very important depending on how you operate, and the rate of success
is not that much. After the failed result of CADP operation he went
one operation to took out the tube that was connected to the belly at RK
Mission Hospital, Itanagar. The Doctor told him for one more
operation for dialysis that was fitting of fistula at the hand and
refer him at Guwahati. He underwent operation for fistula at International
Hospital, Guwahati and started his dialysis from that time onwards. At the hospital for
one time dialysis the cost was Rs 5000 -
7000 (approx) and weekly he was prescribed for 3
times dialysis. He mention now he is undergoing three times per week
dialysis treatment at Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences at
Naharlagun, Arunachal Pradesh under Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme
(PMNDP). The service provider of Dialysis Units is Kolkata-based
Eskag Sanjeevani Pvt Ltd.
On 12 April 2018,
Arunachal Pradesh had received a free dialysis units under PMNDP at
TRIHMS, Naharlagun 👇👇👇
Official website of Tomo Riba Institute of Health & Medical Sciences :
Pictures
of the dialysis units 👇👇
At
first he was unaware about the dialysis unit at Naharlagun but told him by
another kidney failure patient at RK Mission Hospital, Itanagar during regular
dialysis. He told that during dialysis some of the
following factors are examined
1. Weight of the body
2. Test
of blood in every 2-3 weeks for
any kind of blood infection
3. Test related Creatine test,
blood percentage, electrolyte etc.
He also mention some of the
difficulties he faced during dialysis:
1. BP get high during dialysis
reaching till 250
2.
Frequent head pain
3. Low electrolytes due to which he get admitted
many a times.
4. High percentage of Creatine
5. High rate of
heart beats
6. Oxygen level in the body get suddenly low upto 70 %
7. Vomiting.
He told that as an advice one should thoroughly
go for check up for diabetes , don't use the insulin in early stage instead opt
medicine to control the diabetes .Some of the important factor a
kidney failure patient should take care:
1. Weight of the body
2. Low consumption of water
3. Low or restrict carbohydrate
diets.
He often mention during his conversation that before dialysis
the medical stuffs take weight of the patients like for him the marginal weight
kept 52 kg, if the weight get increased more than 52 kg then that much Kg in
litres are eliminated in the dialysis. After dialysis he sometimes
take some dose of "Eposis" injection for increasing the blood in the
body from the medical staffs, the cost is Rs 1400 -
1500 (may varies)per dose . Lastly he said Diabetes
is the mother of all the diseases like now he is suffering from both kidney
failure (Chronic), high BP, irregularity in heart beats, oxygen percentage get
suddenly low, low electrolytes , blackened skin complex, body muscle get
shrink, frequent headache etc. The condition of his diabetes and kidney failure
are chronic so he can't undergoes for kidney transplantation
operation. I can see his bad condition as he is merely a Govt.
employee in the Education Department and have to worry about his
family expenses too . Till now he made gross expenditure more than Rs 30 lakhs
( may increase) with a total medical reimbursement of Rs 25 lakhs ( claimed but
did not get the financial support) . Frankly I often get worried how he can
manage from his only salary for his regular treatment and also for the expenses
of college fees for all of his sons and daughters with theirs day to day
requirements.Some of the points stressed me out during the conversation with
him;
1. Less awareness of health issues,
2. Stress to be
taken when you frequently have back pain,
3. Low consumption of carbohydrate diets
and sugar,
4. Drinking adequate quantity of water,
5. Make
time for routine check up,
6. Avoid consumption of alcohol or any bad
habits that may result effects in the organs.
7. Notice the colour of
urine ,
Note: These experiences are taken on oneself, please any problems in your body do consult the Doctor.


