{"id":6871,"date":"2020-08-23T00:18:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drmohans.com\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2024-11-27T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T09:29:14","slug":"pneumococcal-and-influenza-vaccinations-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drmohans.com\/backend\/pneumococcal-and-influenza-vaccinations-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccinations \u2013 Are they useful for people with diabetes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

During these times of COVID, one thought which is on everyone\u2019s mind is WHEN THE COVID VACCINE WILL COME?<\/strong>\u00a0 Now that’s a good question to ask because nobody is really sure of the answer. However, the good news is that they are not one, two, three, but probably over ten different companies working on the COVID vaccine. So we are confident that in the next six months to one year, we will have a COVID vaccine. But until then, what can we do? Most specifically, what can people with diabetes do?<\/p>\n

The first thing, of course, is to look after your diabetes well and control it well because uncontrolled diabetes is definitely associated with poorer outcomes and even increased deaths and mortality due to COVID -19.<\/p>\n

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Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccinations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Diabetes and respiratory infections<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Diabetes<\/a> individuals are at increased risk of respiratory infections. People with diabetes are about six times more likely than non-diabetics patients to be hospitalized with a diagnosis of influenza during flu epidemics and three times more likely to die of pneumonia or flu. Also, among people with diabetes, death rates increase by 5 to 15% during flu epidemics, and the case fatality rate for influenza is about 12%, while those for pneumococcal infection range from 21 to 36%1-3<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Diabetes is associated with a higher risk of Pneumococcal Pneumonia and are reported to have an increased incidence of deaths due to pneumococcal pneumonia. Indeed even young people with diabetes are at risk. A retrospective cohort analysis data reported that the incidence of pneumococcal pneumonia in younger persons with diabetes with underlying conditions in the US, 2007\u20132010, has an equally higher risk of pneumococcal pneumonia as the older people with diabetes4<\/sup>. The risk of invasive pneumococcal disease is 3-fold more in adults with diabetes compared to healthy adults5<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Are there Vaccines a person with diabetes must take?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

However there is something that you can do in the absence of the COVID vaccine. There are a couple of other vaccines that you can take, which may not prevent COVID-19<\/a>, but if you get a secondary infection in the lung, then that can be avoided. The most frequent infections that affect older people are community-acquired pneumonia, and it can be prevented by taking pneumococcal vaccination. The best way to understand about the pneumococcal disease is to speak to your doctor6<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

The below video explains the importance of Adult vaccinations for people with Diabetes in English.<\/p>\n