Hi there just looking for other people's ideas, info. I'm a type 1 diabetic (for about 25 years) with high BP, I work on a health counter in a pharmacy and I'm concerned about tge corona virus. Govt advice is currently to stay at home. What are other type 1's doing.
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Welcome to the forum
It is understandable that you are concerned about the current situation, especially in your role.
This is a link to the current advice from Diabetes Uk with regard to Coronavirus
forum.diabetes.org.uk
It will be updated as necessary. I hope that that is of some help.
As I understand it a person with well controlled Diabetes is no more likely to catch the virus, but it is important that each of us with T1 is familiar with our Sick day rules (which includes the need to know your Total Daily Dose, which I have a note of this on my sick day chart in pencil so that it can be adjusted as necessary) as whenever illness hits we need to adjust our insulin doses.
It is understandable that you are concerned about the current situation, especially in your role.
This is a link to the current advice from Diabetes Uk with regard to Coronavirus
Coronavirus / Covid19 Information
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock has launched an expanded public health awareness campaign on COVID-19 (Coronavirus). It urges people to wash their hands more often for 20 seconds. You can find their campaign on their social media channels below. Twitter:
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As I understand it a person with well controlled Diabetes is no more likely to catch the virus, but it is important that each of us with T1 is familiar with our Sick day rules (which includes the need to know your Total Daily Dose, which I have a note of this on my sick day chart in pencil so that it can be adjusted as necessary) as whenever illness hits we need to adjust our insulin doses.
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The current official advice doesn’t go that far - it is to be more careful about ‘social distancing’. Unfortunately there was a press conference where Boris Johnson gave out slightly mixed messages, and there was a figure of 12 weeks mentioned, but the official advice on the .gov website doesn’t back that up except for those at extreme risk (eg people on chemo, dialysis, with leukaemia, or other similarly high risk groups)
See here:https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/coronavirus-covid19-information.85707/#post-958755
So you may choose to self isolate, and you are encourage to ‘work from home’ (not possible in your case), but for now social distancing is enough to reduce your risk substantially, while making life a lot easier.
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