Pump therapy, monitoring and self-control schools: how to help children with diabetes in Belarus

Early control of diabetes improves the prognosis of the disease and reduces the number of complications. What measures are being taken to identify the disease and combat it on the eve of the World Diabetes Day, which is celebrated on November 14, said the doctor of medical Sciences, professor of the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Clinical Genetics and Immunology with a course of advanced training and retraining of the Belarusian State Medical University Irina Khmara, reports sb.by.

Diabetes mellitus entails additional complications, affecting the kidneys, eye vessels, the peripheral nervous system, so it is important for doctors to identify the pathology as soon as possible and take control, said Irina Khmara:

- There are clinical studies that prove: early compensation for diabetes mellitus gives a positive dynamics of the disease, so it is important to diagnose diabetes in a timely manner.

Children with diabetes mellitus of the first type receive analogues of human insulin. This gives control of the disease, reduces the likelihood of complications. The specialist added:

- The system of daily monitoring has proved itself well, pumped insulin administration is widely introduced, which also helps to improve control over the course of the disease.

- First of all, prevention concerns diabetes of the second type. Rational nutrition, rational physical activity, weight control are important, especially during puberty and before the start of puberty, because at this time children have reduced sensitivity to their insulin, insulin resistance develops.

The rest is the doctors' concern. Doctors are working on the early detection of diabetes mellitus through medical examination. It is especially important, drew the attention of the specialist, that among children there were as few cases of diabetes mellitus of the first type as possible in a state of ketoacidosis. It's an acute complication of the disease. She also drew attention to the fact that now the proportion of patients in whom diabetes is detected as accidental hyperglycemia is increasing, that is, the disease is detected during a preventive examination.

- The Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Clinical Genetics and Immunology has a close relationship with the 2nd City Children's Clinical Hospital of Minsk. This institution operates a school of diabetes for patients with diabetes of the first type, daily classes are held. Parents and children are taught self-control, the principles of proper treatment, nutrition, active physical activity. Here they tell you how to adjust the dose of insulin depending on what insulin the child receives, how he eats, what physical activity he receives during the day.