MaineHealth Diabetes Care Belfast offer complete diabetes education, targeted nutrition counseling and intensive medication management for people living with diabetes.
Expert diabetes and nutrition care in Belfast, Maine
Our experienced team includes registered dietitians and registered nurses with special training in diabetes education. Services includes one-on-one diabetes counseling and group diabetes education classes. Whether you are newly diagnosed or have been living with diabetes for a while, we are here to help manage your chronic condition. Topics of discussion will include:
- Healthy meal planning
- Blood sugar monitoring
- Exercise
- Medications
- Related complications
More about our services
A physician focused on diabetes treatment will work with you and your primary care provider to help manage your diabetes medications. We can help with:
- Lifestyle changes, including meal planning and exercise to reduce the need for medication
- Weight management
- Blood glucose self-monitoring and evaluation
- Recognizing and treating low blood sugar
- Foot and eye care
- Insulin pump therapy
- Nutrition information to help manage cholesterol levels and high blood pressure and to promote wound healing
- Diabetes management during pregnancy
Clinical nutrition services can help treat, prevent or delay disease. Services are provided by a licensed registered dietitian. A nutrition assessment will determine your need for nutrition therapy. We will work with you to create an individualized nutrition plan based on your medical history, diagnosed conditions and lifestyle.
For more information, please call 207-505-4369.
Diabetes education classes are for people newly diagnosed with diabetes and for those who need follow-up for basic self management. Few diseases call for as much self-care as diabetes. And few diseases have so much comprehensive information patients must learn for successful management. Our diabetes education classes provide information that is easily adaptable to your lifestyle.
Our diabetes nurse and dietitian educators offer classes in group sessions and individual sessions to help patients gain the everyday skills needed to manage diabetes successfully.
Those with Type 1, Type 2, gestational and newly diagnosed diabetes will find the assistance they need to create an individualized diabetes self-management plan.
