What is classed as a chronic illness in Cyprus

[boro886]

Thank you to the last four posters but i think you have mis-understood what I was asking. I wanted to know what the legislation in Cyprus decreed was a chronic illness with regards to qualifying for a medical card. I am unable to find a list which is quoted under Table 6, Part I(B) of Regulation 8.

I am fully aware of the causes and possible remedies for type 2 diabetes having suffered with it for 9 years.

I just want to know if type 2 diabetes is on that list.

thanks again.

[boro886]

Having a little knowledge of this....

Type 1 is the testing regime/insulin injection/pump version that can be very serious, often starting at birth or young age.

10% or less of Diabtics have Type 1.

Type 2 most often occurs in adulthood and is much more prominent now than ever, mainly due to lifestyle, diet and weight issues. Some race issues cause it to be more frequent, i.e. Many from India, Pakistan and that area of Asia, develop type 2 often as a result of change of diet to a westernised diet where their bodies cant handle the increased sugar.

Type 2 for most people - those where lifestyle plays a very large part - is controllable and often curable. Type 2s generally dont use meters for self-testing and usually only take drugs. Diet, excercise and drug control can make it not so serious.

Uncontrolled type 2 (sadly for many in the West) can lead to limb loss, blindness and death, along with many other illnesses. We have become better are treating, such as bloop pressure at extremities.

The Mediterranean diet is recommended for all. Few people who eat healthily develop type 2. But that has to be over lifetime to prevent, but once diagnoses, diet and excercise should be the first treatment.

In very old people, that can be very difficult to control and with this age group, it can be commone with people who are not overweight.

Sugar is the killer. We have spent far too long talking about fats and carbohydrates and meats and eggs and all sorts. Typical Daily Mail misinformed claptrap.

Sugar and in particular, manufactured sugar - known in the US as high fructose corn syrup and in the UK as glucose fructose, is a particular cause of diabetes, obesity and a host of other problems....

In the US, they started using HGCS as a replacement for cane sugar, in the early 60's. CocaCola uses it as a sweetener in coke, making it addictive and given in such high doses, it is killing people. It cant be properly injected by the body. CocaCola add salt to coke, to makeyou thirstier, then more HGCS to disguised the salt, masking a potent mix.

They reckon most of the obesity in the US is down to HGCS and as a result, most of the Type2.

It is now, as GF, become a common sweetener in the UK and Europe, particularly for jams, sweets, additives etc. It should be avoided. Google this and see the horrendous stories. Also, watch some of the YouTube videos of documentaries from the US and UK. Eminent professors, consultants and doctors all blasting this additive. You have to ask, why is it still allowed?

All true.
So why isn't diabetes (type 1 and 2) classified as a chronic illness in Cyprus?
Geoff.

Geoff,
I dont know whether it is or isnt, thats the problem

[geoffreys]

According to our local pharmacist (who is also a qualified GP)) it is not.
Geoff.

[WHL]

Surely your best bet, is to go to the Citizens office, where they will tell you if you qualify for a card or not.....ask ten different people the same question you will get ten different answers...go get it from the horses mouth.

[Jimgward]

I have no idea why some countries may call any morbidity chronic or not...

I would classify chronic, normally, as life changing and potentially dangerous.... such as heart disease, COPD, Diabetes and more... thats what the NHS do. I would imagine Cyprus's classification is more related to finance. i.e. if classified, you are able to claim for x,y,and z

In the UK, many more illnesses are now classified as chronic. My wife has just been classified as having Chronic Kidney Disease at level 3 (it goes from 1 to 5) She has been told she has the kidney function of someone 20 years older. She has no symptoms, as she already suffers from fibromyalgia and some symptoms overlap... She hasn't to do anything either, just be monitored. Prognosis is that it 'can' lead to heart disease, as it's usually related to high blood pressure. She hasn't got that, but did have aneurysms 2 years ago...

I therefore find her definition of 'chronic' misleading, as I wouldn't necessarily have called this chronic....

I assume therefore that different countries (Cyprus) call long-term conditions by different names and severities.

Because of the mediterranean diet, many fewer suffer type2 and maybe only type1 is a chronic condition.... We even had an imminent professor a few weeks ago, calling for diabetes type2 not to be called a disease...

[PhotoLady]

Surely your best bet, is to go to the Citizens office, where they will tell you if you qualify for a card or not.....ask ten different people the same question you will get ten different answers...go get it from the horses mouth.

Exactly what I said yesterday.......

Apparently, there is a list which is referred to for a Chronic Illness but nobody appears to know how to find the source of said list....

A friend of ours has had a similar problem but for a different reason to yours.

Go and see the people at the Citizens Centre office where they issue medical cards and they should be able to help you. Persevere with your quest because it seems they don't all necessary share their information! It's a case of finding the "right person" to deal with your enquiry....

[JimX]

Diabetes is of course a chronic illness Geoff, well at our General hospital it is in Pafos.

That medical card, if your married and our wife/partner is 60 or over then she will cover you no matter how old you are men usually get local free health cover at 65. Apart from a small registration charge of €3. to see the GP and then €50 cents per item from the Pharmacy, my seven items cost €3.50 this morning at the General Hospital.

Working adults will pay into the social service so they will also eventually be covered on the Cyprus HS.

Good health..

[mike strand2]

I'm going to pedantic; Diabetes is recognised by the WHO as 'a chronic condition'. It's not a disease or or an illness.

[merchant_banker]

I'm going to pedantic; Diabetes is recognised by the WHO as 'a chronic condition'. It's not a disease or or an illness.

Of course it is