Child Diabetes
Diabetes is a metabolic disease that occurs when specialized cells in the pancreas does not produce enough insulin
Insulin allows the body to process proteins, fats and sugars from food.
This causes the nutrients are not digested normally and remain in the bloodstream of the body sanguineosin be able to react as if you were fasting.
To feed the cells, the liver makes sugar from stored protein and fat which causes the disappearance of the fat and muscle tissue of the body (decreased body weight) and for which there is an excess of glucose in the blood. The body tries to get rid of this excess more urine. Thus the patient urinate frequently and often have very thirsty, and they have to compensate for fluid lost through the urine
Basically one can speak of two types of diabetes: Type I diabetes, the most common in children and type II usually begins from the age of 30 related lifestyle and disordered eating habits, among which overweight.
Causes
Auinque there is a tendency to develop this disease is inherited, there have been cases where there are no close relatives with the disease.
Because type I diabetes, is affecting the child population will be discussed in this section:
Symptoms
* frequent urination (polyuria)
* No increases or rapid weight loss associated with increased appetite and the amount of food eaten
* Abdominal pain
* Fatigue
* Decreased school performance and behavioral disturbances.
* Excessive thirst
* Dermatitis severe diaper that does not respond to standard therapy in the case of babies.
* Persistent vomiting, especially if accompanied by weakness or drowsiness.
Diagnosis and Treatment
If you take your child to the doctor, he asked the following tests to determine the existence of diabetes:
* Test your blood glucose (blood sugar) fasting (maximum value in children is 110 mg / dl).
* Test urine glucose and ketonuria (ketones in the urine).
If glucose is between 110 and 126 mg / dl, the test indicated SOG (oral glucose), which is specific in these cases.
When confirming the diagnosis of diabetes, treatment begins immediately based on insulin injections.
There are three types of insulin depending on the time of action are: regular or soluble, which is fast acting, the intermediate-acting and slow.
You must know that if diabetes is not properly controlled can lead to coma ketoacidotic (caused by excess blood glucose) which requires urgent hospital admission for rehydration, correction of acidosis and electrolyte abnormalities, nutrition and intravenous insulin.
However, the decline in blood glucose levels can also cause hypoglycemic coma in this case. Hence the need for constant monitoring of glucose levels in the blood.
Recommendations of natural medicine
Consult with a doctor as soon as you suspect your child has this disease. This is particularly difficult in young children and infants at that age and diabetes symptoms are not specific enough. It is therefore important to recognize the symptoms.
Raising your child as he would have done if I had not had the disease. There is no reason to limit their educational goals, academic or occupational. It is important that they have maximum support. Watch your weight as a child, especially during infancy and early childhood, and that a loss is a sign that you are not eating enough and that unless this situation better, confront problems of development and growth.
Ensure that your child wear a balanced diet and eat regularly and frequently, as it has the same nutritional needs as other children to grow and develop. However, you should watch that do not skip meals and do not put off too much. It is important that meals are of equal size and content in terms of carbohydrates and proteins. It should include bread, pasta, potatoes and beans, peas, whole grain foods such as oatmeal or bran, and vegetables and fruits, and no more than 30 percent of calories from fat. Fats should be mostly unsaturated oil such as liquid.
Snacking between meals is also important to maintain a constant supply of food, because insulin is absorbed continuously. Among the recommended snacks are fruit, crackers with cheese or peanut butter, yogurt, crackers, cereal, crackers “wafer” of vanilla, and granola bars in case the child will do much exercise.
Report to daycare or school of your child’s condition and explain how important it can snack time and how to identify symptoms of hypoglycemia.
Let your child participate as much as possible in their care which will enable some sense of control. For children under three years can be left to choose the finger where he prefers to click to get the blood sample or where you want to put you deinsulina injection.
If the child is between four and seven years, can assist in the reading levels of blood sugar and in the preparation of injections.
From 8 to 11 years the children themselves can administer insulin injections and blood tests to perform under the supervision of an adult. Finally, it is important to know that, at puberty, the need for insulin rises slightly and then fall again. The usual pattern is injected is two or three times daily before meals.