Article by Hector Milla

Under results of a new study, hypoglycemia, which is a drop in levels of blood sugar, and is severe enough to cause seizures or coma in young children with type 1 diabetes (those who develop the disease very early in life) does not appear to result in impairments in mental ability or behavior.

According to experts and scientific evidence, the hippocampus (a region of the brain) is particularly sensitive to prolonged episodes of severe hypoglycemia. And experts stated that “young children with type 1 diabetes are at greatest risk of severe hypoglycemic events, and this has focused concern on the potential for hypoglycemic insult to impact on central nervous system development”.

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Article by Bertil Hjert

Unfortunately one in every 700 children of school going age is suffering from diabetes. According to a research, it has been proved that this ratio will increase to a good amount in coming years. Most parents are not able to spot when the disease has already started in their children. The worst part is that most of the symptoms of diabetes are treated as normal.

Most people are not able to identify this disease in their children because the symptoms do not appear all at once. There are possibilities that a particular symptom appear at present and the other may take about some months to appear.

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Diabetes in children is a common disease. One has to keep in mind that diabetic child’s nutritional needs are same as those of other children of their age who do not have diabetes. Proper meal planning should be done and also the diet should be revised so as to keep the child’s growth in mind. In general one should keep in mind a child of average weight needs about 1000 calories a day at age one, with additional 100 calories a day added each year. There are two major problems one can say as in keeping your child on track in terms of food:

-    Is the need to co ordinate food with insulin injection?
-    Are the appalling eating habits of children when they are out of their parents’ sight?

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Diabetes is an illness which affects both adults and children. There are two important types of diabetes, type 1 diabetes which is more severe than type 2 and usually occurs during childhood and type 2 diabetes which usually occurs to old people, people who are overweight and also other categories.

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In layman’s term, diabetes is the inability of the body to regulate the blood sugar level on its own. This is usually caused by the lack of sufficient insulin, the hormone that breaks down and converts glucose in the blood stream. There are basically two types of diabetes – diabetes mellitus (type II diabetes) and diabetes insipidus (type I diabetes).

If Type II Diabetes is common among adults, it is Type I diabetes that haunt the lives of children.  Children with diabetes usually exhibit a number of symptoms such as thirst, weight loss, frequent need to urinate, headaches, abdominal pain, and behavioral problems, among others.

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Diabetes in children – signs and symptoms plus causes are major hurdle to jump. It goes without saying children are more vulnerable and likely to be extinguished by diabetes, if not diagnosed and attended to early enough. The lower the age, the higher the risk coupled with low developing immune system, to weather any opportunistic infections. The sad fact about diabetic children is that the disease remains and grows with them developing complications early that are associated with the disease like retinopathy, kidney failure etc.

It is tempting to ignore as well and forego by mistake on the assumption that nature should take its natural cause and heal the young star. Let’s be sincere to all and sundry; diabetic children have tougher routines, parents especially their mothers go through hell. Let’s face it; the mother has to learn to administer insulin into the skin usually done over the abdomen or the thighs. There is not an option to treatment whether it is rapid acting insulin or the night slow mode; the formula is the same injection. She must learn to recognize, low or high sugar situations and take appropriate action; including exercising the patient and so forth; the program is tough for her.

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Diabetes Mellitus is a problem in metabolism specifically on the production of insulin used to convert sugar and starch for energy. The cells in our body would experience hunger and thus cause you to be weak once this is not treated immediately. Diabetes in children is a common condition and when it is not detected at an earlier time, complications can happen and it can have certain effects on the organs of the body like the heart, kidney and even the eyes. The complications can be irreversible and it would then be very hard to follow a treatment regimen.

There are two types of Diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is due to the destruction of cells of the pancreas that produces insulin thus there is none enough to metabolize sugar creating the different signs and symptoms. Type 2 Diabetes on the other hand is a condition wherein the body resists insulin or there is only a little amount of insulin produced. This type can be managed by change in lifestyle and following a healthy diet and exercise. The first type is what commonly occurs on children.

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The rate of Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents are now in alarming state of increase that lead to chronic health conditions such as loss of vision, limb amputation, kidney disorders, and cardiovascular risks. Most physicians suppose the growing rate of this medical condition is as a result of poor food choices, increasing obesity and the sedentary lifestyle experienced by children today.

Type 2 diabetes is a life long disorder of pancreas that fails to produce enough insulin in the body or fails to use the insulin suitably. This slows down the natural ability of human cells to breakdown sugar or glucose into energy and increases the amount of sugar to stay in the blood causing elevated blood sugar levels. The actual reason for the rapid increase of Type 2 diabetes in children is still unknown though there are various possible causes including family history or hereditary, overweight or obesity, physically inactive lifestyle etc. The release of hormones during teen ages can also lead to insulin resistance that can in turn cause Type 2 diabetes. Children with type 2 diabetes are also more possible to develop hypertension or abnormal levels of blood fats.

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