Nutrition, ecology, postcoid manifestations: what affects the increase in diabetes cases in children

The incidence of diabetes among children is increasing. Affects a group of factors, including nutrition, ecology, postcoidal manifestations. How to diagnose and treat the disease, on the eve of World Diabetes Day, which is celebrated on November 14, told in the 2nd city children's clinical hospital of Minsk.

Since 2006, the Republican Center for Pediatric Endocrinology has been operating on the basis of the clinic. The number of patients has since increased: then there were 290 children with diabetes mellitus of the first type, after 10 years - 470, for nine months of this year, 845 children were under the supervision of the center. The smallest patient is a year and nine months, the diagnosis is made at 10 months.

The clinic provides assistance to children from all over the country. In the field of view of doctors, including patients with a severe course of the disease, cases of complex diagnosis. Assistance is also provided to foreigners, patients from Georgia, Kazakhstan and Russia are more often treated.

There is an increase in the incidence of diabetes, but this is a global trend, doctors say. The increase in the number of cases, according to experts, is influenced by a group of factors, including nutrition and ecology. Post-cove manifestations are not excluded.

Every year the diagnosis of the disease and treatment are improved. Since 2011, pump insulin therapy has been used in the institution. Over the past three years, 100 percent of children have received analog insulins. Daily glucose monitoring is used.

Pediatric endocrinologist, head of the City Children's Endocrinological Outpatient Department of the 2nd City Children's Clinical Hospital of Minsk Elena Kislaya told about the main signs of diabetes that everyone should know:

- The child drinks a lot, often goes to the toilet, eats a lot, but at the same time loses weight. These signs should be remembered by every doctor, every parent.

When symptoms appear in a child, the easiest thing is to go to the clinic and take a blood sugar test. Then the diagnosis will be made as early as possible, treatment will be prescribed as early as possible and the outcome of the disease will be favorable, the specialist assured. She also told how, at the present stage, insulin is administered to children with diabetes of the first type:

Insulin is administered as a subcutaneous solution. There are two ways: either it is injected with syringe pens, where the dose is exposed in the window, or with the help of a pump - a thin tube is in the subcutaneous fatty tissue of the child, through which insulin is supplied. It is served constantly, an additional dose - before meals. This is the most modern method of insulin administration. We use it extensively. With fanfare, children can visit the pool, dance, sports, including professionally. About 160 children receive pump insulin therapy in Minsk. Pump therapy, monitoring and self-control schools: how to help children with diabetes in Belarus