Department of Ophthalmology

The Ophthalmology unit has facilities for routine screening of patients for the early diagnosis of Diabetic Eye Disease (Retinopathy). This enables the patient to have prompt attention and prevents blindness.

 

 

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Laboratory Sciences

Provides all the necessary investigations to diagnose and treat diabetes with the latest technology available. Facilities are available to monitor blood glucose levels, lipid profile, renal function tests, liver function tests and other related metabolic parameters by using the advanced techniques in Hitachi 912 Auto Analyser. The Analyser is capable of processing 360 tests per hour.

As a special feature, BIO-RAD VARIANT is available, to find out how the blood glucose level has been maintained in the past 2-3 months, which uses the latest High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) technique. ADVIA-60 Cell Counter gives a complete picture of the blood which includes Total Count, Differential Count, Haemoglobin, RBC and Platelets Count, which is an automated machine totally.
Everyday Quality Control Programme is run to start with, then only the patients samples are processed and a Quality Control Record is maintained to ensure the quality of the results given to the patients.

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Dietetics & Nutrition

It involves in individual dietetic counseling. Qualified dietitians focus on patients needs, disease condition, and quality of life thereby tailoring the diet prescription to fit the patients lifestyle. The dietitians work in cohort with the team of health care professionals in helping the patient to achieve better diabetes control and preventing complications associated with this disorder. Dietitians strive to bring a holistic approach to medical nutrition therapy including behavior and lifestyle modification along with providing healthier nutritional choices.

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Diabetes Education

  

   Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder. Individuals affected by diabetes need to learn self-management skills and make life style changes to manage diabetes effectively and avoid or delay the complications associated with this disorder. For these reasons, self-management education is the cornerstone of treatment for people with diabetes.

     The main objective is to make the information clear, concise, practical and at the same time dispelling any myths associated with diabetes and its treatment. Counseling with regard to lifestyle modification to achieve better health status is also being done by qualified professionals. The department also ensures that the patient is equipped with self-care skills with regard to his diabetes management, which would include self-administration of insulin, blood glucose monitoring, prevention of complications etc.

     The diabetes education imparted by the department may be called Self management training and Self management education as well as diabetes patient education. The following unique services are offered by us:

• Interactive Lecture Sessions & Audiovisual Presentation in English & Tamil.
• Individual Counselling and Diet Advice.
• Books on Diabetes in English, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu & Malayalam for sale.
• CD-ROM on Diabetes in English for sale.

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Special Footwear

Diabetes can affect your feet and cause loss of sensation on the feet. Due to this, people with Diabetes may underestimate and ignore their foot problems. Hence, they are vulnerable to injury on the feet. New types of footwear are now being prepared at MVH Royapuram with technical assistance from C.L.R.I. Chennai for Diabetic patients with foot problems. This department provides special footwear, which is made-up of new types of insole materials for patients with high risk foot. Less weight, cheap and aesthetically appearing footwear are available. These footwear will be beneficial to all the Diabetics, who require special footwear to prevent high pressures under the feet.


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Dia Shoppe

Several useful products for people with diabetes have been displayed in the Dia Shoppe. Products are also available at a nominal cost. People can choose a wide variety of items from products for foot care to insulin delivery system.

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Dental Care

Despite the increasing salience of healthcare, dental care is still not a matter of immediate concern for most people. The fact is, dental health is critical to overall well being and it is to provide international standard professional dental care

Services of Visiting Consultants in Cardiology, Neurology, Nephrology and so on are provided as and when required for individual patients. The department aims to identify diabetic patients with chronic periodontitis which is now considered as the 6th COMPLICATION OF DIABETES MELLITUS. Chronic periodontits and other oral manifestations of diabetes mellitus are detected early and comprehensively treated. There is also proper interaction between dental and medical treatment in a diabetic patient, apart from carrying out research.

Diabetes is a disease that can affect the whole body, including your mouth. Dental care is particularly important for people with diabetes because they face a higher than normal risk of oral health problems due to controlled blood sugars.

Dry mouth  uncontrolled diabetes can decrease saliva flow, resulting in dry mouth. Dry mouth can further lead to soreness, ulcers, infections, and tooth decay.

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