Diabetics are more prone to Covid-19 infections, say doctors

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Kanpur: Diabetes patients should be alert as out of the 35 deaths recorded in the city, 17 were diabetics. Diabetic patients are more prone to Covid-19 infection, say doctors.
Vice- principal of GSVM medical college, Prof Richa Giri said diabetes patients fall easy prey to coronavirus. “Patients are coming to the hospital in a comorbid state due to uncontrolled sugar. Following their critical state, they are being shifted to the intensive care unit of the hospital. Diabetics are also attacked by other diseases too”, she said.
Following a spike in the number of infected persons, there is a great rush at the Neuro Covid wing at LLR hospital where serious corona patients are being admitted and treated. According to LLR hospital sources at present out of around 139 infected persons being treated here, 54 of them are diabetics.
The LLR hospital authorities have taken the services of some specialist doctors to bring out diabetic patients from difficult positions. As many as six infected diabetic patients who are being treated at the neuro covid and maternity wing of LLR hospital while sharing their views in their case history said that they had got infected as they did not use masks.
Prof Apoorva Agarwal,ICU in-charge of neuro covid hospital claimed that coronavirus was now more dangerous for people who are diabetics. “They get infected when their sugar level is high”, he said. The experts have advised the diabetic patients not to venture out without wearing a mask and not allow the sugar level to increase.
According to doctors, the sugar level of diabetic patients, who are below 50 years, should be 80 mg/dl to 140 mg/dl. To keep the sugar level under control, they should check their sugar daily and never skip their medicines--tablets or insulin, said a doctor. “Stay at home, take precautions and take medicines daily”, the doctor further said.