Nursing Home Diabetic Complications Injury

The nursing care facilities are responsible to designate a plan of care which attend the needs of each individual patient.

A neglect of monitoring blood glucose levels properly in diabetic patients can have severe consequences which may cause catastrophic injury, death or coma.

Nursing home diabetic complications injury can occur when a diabetic patient doesn’t receive proper care or monitoring.

The nursing facility may be held responsible for medical malpractice or negligence if the failed care causes undue pain, suffering and complications.

Attorneys can commit to ensure that patients in a nursing home receive the treatment they deserve by holding liable facilities for any misdeeds. This includes related complications for failure of facilities to attend and monitor the needs of a patient with diabetes.

Diabetes is a lack of ability of the body in an efficient manner to process sugar, which can result in high blood glucose levels.

This requires insulin for the use of the body’s glucose in cells. Diabetics cannot produce insulin levels that are sufficient, or have become resistant to insulin produced.

The result can be elevated levels of blood glucose, which result in many complications and conditions such as heart disease, dizziness, mood changes, nerve damage, and cognitive function loss.

Medicines which treat diabetes operate by the diminishing of the resistance of the body to insulin, or aiding the body to produce insulin which is necessary.

Patients who are not able to produce the necessary insulin may need to take injections of insulin, or use a pump for insulin which can maintain insulin levels that are steady in the blood. 


These medications, on occasion, may reduce levels of the blood glucose in the diabetic too much, which can result in low blood sugar.

Having blood sugar that is low can cause catastrophic medical complications, as well as death or coma.

To maintain a level of blood glucose that is healthy, a diabetic must be routinely monitored to ensure that levels of blood glucose are properly balanced.

Testing for blood glucose is a procedure that is simple, which requires a single blood drop, and a test meter which is simple to use.

There is no excuse for the neglect of medical staff in a nursing home to monitor properly the levels of a patient's levels of blood sugar.

However, the consequences of blood sugar can be severe, and result in nursing home diabetic complications injury.

The conditions and symptoms as a result of irregularities in blood sugar can be minor lightheadedness and a headache, or a severe advanced liver, nerve, kidney, or heart damage.

The following conditions and symptoms may be caused by unmonitored levels of glucose: loss of consciousness; severe tiredness and fatigue; dizziness, confusion or lightheadedness; damage to the heart, liver or kidneys; tissue and nerve damage; hyperglycemia/ hypoglycemia; ulcers in extremities, like the feet; irritability or sudden mood change; and severe infections.

You or a loved one may have suffered a nursing home diabetic complications injury due to failure of medical staff in a nursing home to monitor properly levels of blood glucose. You may be entitled to recover damages.

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