Introduction to Learning About Long-Term Conditions videos
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COPD | 1.1 Getting started from TheSoundDoctor on Vimeo.
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Understanding COPD
What is COPD?
Why have I got COPD?
How can COPD affect me?
Why do I feel breathless?
How can COPD affect my mood?
Discovering you have COPD
Smoking and COPD
COPD Getting Started
How your healthcare team works
Getting the best out of your GP
Getting the best out of yourself
Finding out more
Exacerbations & Breathlessness
What can I do if I have an exacerbation?
Clearing your chest
Some devices that may help
Can I avoid having an exacerbation?
Coping with breathlessness
Breathing control
Breathing techniques that may help
Dr Winter talks about breathlessness and how to cope
Medicines you may come across
You and your medicines
Why do medicines matter?
Getting it right
Medicines you may come across
Steroids
Antibiotics
Oxygen
Getting the best out of your inhalers
Living with inhalers
What are my inhalers for?
Getting the best out of your inhalers
The Metered Dose inhaler
The Easi-breather inhaler
The Accuhaler
The Turbohaler
The Respimat inhaler
The Ellipta inhaler
Using a spacer
Using a nebuliser
Living well with COPD
Keeping active
Keeping an eye on your weight
Why do I feel anxious?
Spotting the signs of depression
Coping with anxiety and depression
Looking after yourself
Air pollution and COPD
Cold weather and COPD
Hot weather and COPD
What is pulmonary rehabilitation?
How can pulmonary rehabilitation help me?
Where can I find out more?
Breathe Easy support groups
Smoking & COPD
Smoking and COPD
Why it’s hard to quit
Tools to help you quit
Nicotine replacement therapy
Quitting smoking – help and support
Former smokers in East London and COPD
Staying Positive
Staying positive 1
Staying positive 2
You’re not alone 1
You’re not alone 2
You’re not alone 3
Understanding diabetes
What is type 1 diabetes?
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Diabetes
What is type 1 diabetes?
What is type 2 diabetes?
Why have I got diabetes?
What are the symptoms of diabetes
What are the complications of diabetes?
Can I prevent the complications?
The benefits of self management
Beginning to take control
Discovering you have diabetes
First steps
Why weight matters
Why exercise matters
Why medicines matter
Blood glucose monitoring
Finding out more
Numbers you need to know
You and your healthcare team
Getting the best out of your GP
Getting the best out of yourself
Diet and Exercise
Why weight matters
The unfortunate truth about gaining weight
Watching your weight
What is a good diet for diabetes?
What’s a good diet for diabetes
What is a balanced diet for diabetes?
What is a good diet in Ramadan?
Making changes to your diet
What you need to know about carbohydrates
Glycaemic Index
What you need to know about fat
What you need to know about proteins
What you need to know about fruit and veg
What you need to know about salt
Why Exercise matters
Finding the right activity
How to become more active
Staying in control
What is good control?
An introduction to blood glucose monitoring
Using the results
Hba1c
Cholesterol and blood pressure
Annual review and other important tests
Your diabetes care plan
Structured education
Medicines
Tips to help you remember to take your medicines
A brief guide to Metformin
A brief guide to Sulphonylureas
A brief guide to Glitazones
A brief guide to Gliptins and other Incretin therapies
Moving on to insulin
A brief guide to insulin
How insulin works
Complications
Hypoglycemia
Long term complications of diabetes
How can diabetes affect my feet
Looking after your feet
How can diabetes affect my eyes
Looking after your eyes
How can diabetes affect my mood
Coping with anxiety and depression
Patient stories
Rohit’s story
Tony’s story
Young actress Eleanor talks about living with Type 1 diabetes and how she manages at work
What to do if your child has diabetes
A guide to recognising Type 2 diabetes in children
Teresa talks about her young daughter’s experience of managing Type 1 diabetes at school
Check out further information on Weight Loss Surgery:
Thinking about weight loss surgery?
Who’s it for?
Am I suitable?
Can I avoid surgery?
Potential benefits of surgery
Potential risks of surgery
Does it work?
Before having weight loss surgery
What is my role?
Being assessed for surgery
Preparing for Surgery
Three types of weight loss surgery
Gastric band surgery
Gastric Bypass Surgery
Sleeve Gastrectomy
Life after weight loss surgery
Recovering from surgery
What can I eat?
When the going gets tough
Making the final decision on weigh loss surgery
Are you sure?
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