Diabetes & Covid-19

The recommended safety precautions are as follows¹

• Wash hands properly and frequently.
• Cover your mouth when coughing and sneezing with a handkerchief or the inner face of your elbow.
• Adhering to the current recommendations of the Ministry of Health regarding the use of compulsory masks.

• Phone numbers of your doctors and medical team.
• List of medications and doses you each of the medications you take.
• Simple carbohydrates such as jam, common jelly, to help raise your blood glucose level (blood sugar) if you are at risk of very low blood sugar levels.
• Medicines/Insulin: always have enough for at least another week, in case you cannot get to a pharmacy.
• Glucose strips to regularly test blood glucose levels, especially when you are sick