To date, all children are undercareful monitoring in a children's polyclinic. Where, from birth, they periodically take a variety of tests. This process is very important in diagnosing the health of the baby. After all for a long time already it is known, what exactly analyzes are the most authentic method of definition of the general or common status of a children's organism.
In order to identify the possibility for the babymanifestations of such a disease as diabetes, it is necessary to pass a special analysis, by which the level and norm of sugar in the blood in children is determined. After all, glucose is the main and universal source of energy of our body, playing an indispensable role in the implementation of metabolic processes. It nourishes the brain tissue and working muscles, it synthesizes polysaccharides - substances that are the basis of ligaments, cartilage tissue and hair.
The change in the content of this element in the blood causes diabetes. This ailment entails serious violations in the work of all organs and systems of the human body.
About diabetes.
Most often this ailment begins activelyTo develop after the illnesses caused by the child, caused by virus infections. At a time when the blood sugar level in a child is significantly exceeded (more than 10 mmol / l), baby buds begin to fail to cope with the process of glucose reabsorption (sucking it from urine back into the blood). This leads to the fact that this substance appears already in the baby's urine. Sugar is able to attract water, so a sick child begins to drink more and often urinate. Diabetes, damaging the pancreas, causes the production of insulin in small doses. The result is that the blood is saturated with glucose, which does not have time to be processed and to the cells of the body it no longer comes. As a result, the child begins to lose weight.
In the physiological fluids of healthy peopleglucose is invariably present. Therefore, the level of this substance can be determined using a blood test. For indicators to be the most accurate, it must be taken on an empty stomach. The blood sugar in children is approximately 3-5 mmol / l. This indicator indicates the normal content of glucose in the body of the baby. In the event that the blood sugar level in children is significantly reduced or exceeded, this may indicate the possibility of developing diabetes. It should be noted that these indicators are correct if the analysis was performed on an empty stomach. If after eating food has passed very little time, the blood sugar in children will be no more than 8 mmol / l. You can also determine the level of glucose by using a device - a glucometer or using a special analyzer. These tests can be done at any clinic.
Who is at risk?
- In the emergence of diabetes, the main role is played bygenetic inheritance. In this case, not the disease itself is inherited, but a predisposition to the defeat of the pancreas, namely its insular apparatus. The likelihood of an illness is 30% if both father and mother are sick. If one of the parents suffers from diabetes, 10%.
- Also, a twin child of a baby with diabetes is at risk. At the first type of disease the probability of occurrence of an illness is 50%, and at the second - all 100%.
- A child born with a weight of more than fourkilogram, in which the permissible blood sugar is exceeded or lowered. The mother of such a baby, as a rule, finds a violation in the process of carbohydrate metabolism during the examination.
- Also at risk are children who are overweight.
How to prevent a disease?
Sad as it sounds, but preventionDiabetes mellitus does not exist today. It is better to identify this disease as early as possible, at a latent stage, in order to be able to prevent its active development.
