Childhood diabetes
In the pediatric age we often speak of childhood diabetes, or a metabolic disorder with a cause yet to be defined. Childhood diabetes, if kept under control and treated, does not cause differences in the daily life of the child.
Infantile diabetes consists specifically of the lack of insulin, a hormone essential for life that is no longer produced sufficiently by the pancreas, so the child needs treatment that consists in the administration of insulin.
What is childhood diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic disease that consists of having a high amount of sugar, or glucose in the blood. Caused by the lack of insulin in the body. Insulin is important , as it is a hormone that comes from the pancreas, its job is to maintain a normal blood sugar level.
The glycemic value in a healthy, fasting child is 65 - 100 mg / dl.
Symptoms of childhood diabetes?
Infantile diabetes or more commonly called "type I diabetes merit" affects children, mostly girls.
Childhood diabetes is dangerous for children as it causes lack of insulin so it is best to make a quick diagnosis and start insulin treatment as soon as possible.
The warning symptoms of childhood diabetes may be the following:
• Children need to go to urinate often (Polyuria)
• Children often need to drink fluids (Polydipsia)
• Children are often hungry, and try to eat all the time (Polyphagia)
• Children often lose weight, they lose weight, even though the meal plan is the same.
• Children complain of abdominal pain
The symptoms of childhood diabetes have come from the type of diabetes and from which the disease has come, as soon as you notice these symptoms it is better to go to the doctor so that you can have a certain diagnosis.
What does childhood diabetes depend on ???
Nowadays there is no news about what the cause of childhood diabetes is, often we talk about environmental causes or genetic factors.
Other factors that cause childhood diabetes can be too much sugar intake or poor diet, virus infections and a weak immune system.
To avoid the onset of childhood diabetes, the parent must pay attention from birth with small precautions and healthy habits, breast milk is recommended since the artificial one has more sugars, to make a healthy lifestyle, with the correct nutrition, teach the child the importance of physical activity so as to be able to prevent obesity as well.
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