Prevention of diabetes mellitus can be done in several ways, There are primary, secondary and tertiary diabetes prevention.
Primary prevention
Primary prevention effort is aimed at people who fall into high risk categories, namely those who are healthy people but have the potential to get diabetes. For the primary prevention, we need to know in advance what factors are influential to the occurrence of diabetes mellitus, as well as efforts made to eliminate these factors. Education plays an important role in primary prevention.
Secondary Prevention
Secondary prevention is an effort to prevent and inhibit the occurrence of disease by providing early detection and early treatment. Early detection is done by checking the filter. It’s just that the examination requires considerable cost. Treatment of early disease should be done to prevent the possibility of chronic disease. Education about diabetes mellitus and its management, will affect the increase in patient adherence to treatment.
Tertiary Prevention
If the chronic disease diabetes mellitus happens to you, then the experts must try to prevent further disability and rehabilitation of patients as early as possible before the patient suffered a permanent disability. For instance, acetosal low dose (80 to 325 mg) can be given routinely to patients with diabetes mellitus who have makroangiopati disease (heart blood vessels, peripheral blood vessels, brain blood vessels, retinal capillary blood vessels, eyes, kidney capillaries). Holistic health services and integrated inter-related disciplines is required.
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