Although type 2 diabetes is a disease most seen in adults, children are not exempt. They too, despite his young age, suffer from this type of diabetes. How can you identify if your child has symptoms of type 2 diabetes and when to take him to the doctor?
Type 2 diabetes in children is partly due to a genetic cause, but also to environmental factors. Diet and lack of exercise contribute to the increase in the rate of type 2 diabetes in children, to the extent considered an epidemic closely linked to obesity.
Like adults, children, is a chronic condition that affects the way we metabolize sugar or glucose. You as a parent you can help prevent diabetes in your children by teaching them to eat healthily, and pointing out the importance of physical activity to maintain a healthy weight. If it is too late and your child suffers from obesity, it is necessary to be alert to signs that may indicate that you have type 2 diabetes.
The first thing to know is that type 2 diabetes in children may develop gradually. This means that not necessarily have symptoms. But other children do have symptoms may include:
* Urinating frequently and be very thirsty. This is because as the sugar or glucose accumulates in the bloodstream of children, the liquids are absorbed by the tissues. This makes the child feel thirsty, drink plenty of fluids and consequently have to go to the bathroom much more often than usual.
* Increased appetite. Without enough insulin to move glucose (sugar) into the cells, organs and muscles are a great lack of energy that is manifested in having very hungry. Sugar is high in the blood but low in the rest of the body.
* Feeling fatigue. This occurs because of the lack of sugar necessary for children to have energy. For this reason they can become irritable and feel tired or fatigued all the time.
* See blurred. When levels of glucose in the blood are too high, the eyes of children can lose fluid that prevent them from focusing properly.
* Having dark patches on the skin. Type 2 diabetes causes some children to have patches of darker skin usually in the armpits and the neck or other body areas where they have folds. This coloration can be a sign of insulin resistance.
* Weight loss. Although the symptoms of diabetes have the children are hungrier and eat too much for calm, they may lose weight because energy is not being stored by the cells and tissues and muscles shrink.
* Frequent or wounds that heal slowly. Type 2 diabetes makes the body of children’s vulnerability to infections and wounds that take longer to heal.
Pay attention, because if your child has these symptoms could have type 2 diabetes. You must go to the doctor for making a series of analysis and establishing the diagnosis. The studies for the detection of type 2 diabetes are also recommended for all children and adolescents who are at high risk of developing it, even without symptoms.
How do you know if your child is at high risk?
* Those who have brothers, dads, grandparents, uncles or cousins who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
* Those who are Hispanic, African American, Native American or Asian. These racial groups are genetically predisposed to type 2 diabetes.
* Children whose body mass index (BMI) exceeds 85%.
Diabetes despite being a chronic, incurable, can be prevented. If your children are at risk, act now. Implements changes in lifestyle and bring them to the doctor to do a blood test to determine whether they are diabetic or not. It’s time to stop this epidemic and have healthy children who become healthy adults.
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