Essential Vaccines for Diabetic Patients: Protect Against Infections

Diabetic patients especially those with uncontrolled uh sugars are at an increased risk of various infections both because of their uncontrolled diabetes and also because of an immuno compromised state certain vaccines are recommended in diabetic patients and especially before the winter months it's important to uh give vaccines to the elderly population with diabetes which includes influenza vaccine uh pneumococcal vaccine a pneumococcal vaccine is uh given once every 5 years and uh a flu vaccine is given uh every year apart from this hepatitis B vaccine is also recommended in diabetic patients and uh in those uh patients with diabetes who haven't been vaccinated before then it is recommended that they take hepatitis B vaccines shingles vaccine is another vaccine which is very important especially in the elderly age group because we see many patients with uh uh severe complications of shingles and secondary infection sometimes affecting their uh face facial nerve and also uh leading to uh severe complications so all of these infections can be prevented by simple vaccinations and uh uh diabetic patients should be aware of these vaccines and take them in a timely manner.

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