Symptoms of childhood diabetes – is diabetes of type 1, which develops in young patients with genetic predisposition after viral infection. Remember that fasting glucose in normal 3.3 – 5.5 mmol / liter. If the blood is greater than 10 mmol / l, the kidneys fail to absorb glucose (suck it back from the urine in the blood), so there is sugar in the urine. Sugar (as salt) attract water, so the urine becomes greater. The child often urinates and drinks plenty of fluids. Because the virus damages the pancreas, it produces very little insulin, without which no glucose can master the body. The paradox: there are a lot of glucose in blood, but the cells are starving, children lose weight.
Despite the fact that a genetic predisposition to diabetes is a scientifically proven fact, does not necessarily mean that a child whose parents or other relatives have diabetes, surely they get sick. Do not expect this as a fatal rock. The fear, excessive caution, forcing mothers and fathers treat completely healthy child as a potential patient, to protect him from all that is necessary for normal physical and mental development, and can just play the most evil role, if in addition the child will also perceive the world around us, as concealing at every step of the greater danger.
I want to help you, dear readers, to overcome a fear – it is unlikely to become a helper, if indeed fate would have it so that your child will develop diabetes. But the calm confidence that you know how to act in this case, will help you. Unfortunately, in “illiberal,” families with a child diagnosed with diabetes more often when he managed to make the body serious and irreversible action. In such families the disease is perceived as a bolt from the blue. Here let us try together today to find that middle ground between the fear of “knowledge” and inattention “illiterate” to help children.
Science can not yet give a definitive answer to the question about the causes of children diabetes, although it is clear that the roots of it – viral infection and immunological disorders. If this happens in children, especially at an early age, prior to the development of diabetes, latent (hidden) the period is very short – in this case, parents can only focus on the fact that the child suddenly began to drink heavily and, of course, a lot, often urinate in the including at night. His appetite has changed – or all the time wanting to eat, or, conversely, refuses to eat. He quickly lose weight, become lethargic, sleepy. Intrigue of this stage is that he has no friends on the usual childhood diseases symptoms – no temperature, no cough, no rash … And while parents are guessing, children’s body exhausts past defenses, desperately struggling with the already raging disease. And then nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, disrupted breathing – the latent period has ended, the state has deteriorated sharply. If at this stage the child will not be provided to emergency assistance, he may die.
Unfortunately, currently two of the three cases of children with diabetes come to doctors in such serious condition that’s need intensive treatment.
But the period of heavy drinking from the perspective of modern diabetology – is also a very late date for a diagnosis. During this period, the pancreas of the child can no longer produce enough insulin to assimilate sugar and body, feeling its hunger begins to utilize its spare capacity in overload mode. Some evidence suggests covert development of diabetes at an earlier stage. And if the appeal to the endocrinologist, and laboratory examination confirmed that the pancreas is broken, reduced insulin production – which, unfortunately, will not help protect children from diabetes, but the disease can be significantly slowed and thus preserve the children’s strength, which are so necessary for learning, growing, and other work. What are these symptoms?
Increased demand for sweet (the cells of organs and tissues were inferior to his master, but require their rules).
It is difficult to endure long breaks between meals, acute hunger, there are typical “hungry” headaches.
1,5-2 hours after eating a feeling of weakness.
These signals of possible illness, can be found in very many children and adults – well, what child does not like sweet and who did not want to sleep after a good dinner? .. Nevertheless, these signs should be an occasion to refer to the endocrinologist, especially with those children who have one of the family has diabetes (are not important degree of relationship and age of disease).
Parents should do the same if these symptoms appear in the child against the background of some skin diseases – neurodermitis, persistent furunculosis, pyoderma, ichthyosis, and when paradontosis, deterioration of vision. It is possible that these diseases have become the invisible visible consequence of diabetes, and a visit to the endocrinologist may be time to confirm or refute this relationship.
By the way, the possibility of early diagnosis of diabetes came from doctors not too long ago. It is special tests to detect antibodies to a human beta-cells producing insulin. Detection of high titers of antibodies can think about this disease.
These surveys play an important role in the prevention of childhood diabetes and should be conducted primarily in high-risk groups. High-risk groups are formed from the number of children for whom the probability of diabetes is higher than that of their peers. Doctors define it in a number of factors:
diabetics have among relatives of the child;
weight at birth exceeded 4.5 kg;
he has had other metabolic disorders;
reduced for some reason, immune.
Again, not necessarily that the children, which are characterized by the above criteria (all or part of them), sick with diabetes. But they have this ailment there is a predisposition, which can be realized under the influence of various external factors. Most of these triggers are past infectious disease or stress.
But for these children is very important not only to create a “greenhouse” conditions, how to train the body’s defenses, to provide full, balanced diet with adequate doses of vitamins, but without an excess of sweet (not to give an overload of the pancreas), a rational way of life.
Who are the children most at risk of ill with diabetes?
Those who have relatives with this diagnosis.
Those who have already found other metabolic disorders.
Who at birth had a large body mass (more than 4.5 kg).
Who decrease immunity.
What events in the life of a child often provoke the beginning of the disease?
Viral infection.
Strong emotional upset.
For some early evidence suggests the beginning of the development of diabetes?
The child has increased the need for sweet.
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