Diabetes mellitus in children. Parents, remember 9 simple rules.
Every conscientious parent should know.
1. If both parents are sick with diabetes risk diabetes in children – 50%, when ill, only one parent the risk of sick children – 25%. Keep this in mind, especially at the planning stage of children.
2. Remember, the heredity of diabetes mellitus – an indicator of the probability, - this does not mean that the child is sure to become diabetic.
3. Create a child of such conditions to reduce the likelihood of disease Continue reading »
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.