Overview of complementary and alternative medicine and diabetes

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People with diabetes frequently use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and other non-medicine CAM therapies, often combine various CAMs, and combine CAMs with conventional care. They use CAM for a range of reasons, not necessarily to manage blood glucose. The evidence base for CAM is improving, but there is still a lack of quality evidence for many CAMs, and the combination of CAMs and conventional care. CAMs have both risks and benefits: some CAMs, like some conventional treatments, are higher risk than others. Conventional practitioners should ask about CAM use in a non-judgemental way, document it and monitor the outcomes according to the individual's reason for using it.

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Dunning, T. (2014, November 1). Overview of complementary and alternative medicine and diabetes. Practical Diabetes. John Wiley and Sons Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/pdi.1908

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