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With the program “Obeldicks” there has long been an age-Weightloss program for obese children. First study results when tested with 60 children who were on average 11 years old, showed that the success rate 6 months after study entry was 86%.
Obeldicks to help obese children to reduce their long-term weight and have more fun in motion. Unlike weight loss programs for adults, to be achieved in Obeldicks weight loss by the natural growth of children. So the goal is only once a Gewichtsstabilisation, so that the extra pounds to grow gradually. More than 400 children and young people have now participated in Obeldicks and most managed to maintain their weight long term. “The success rate at the end of the training is 71 percent,” says Dr. Thomas Reinher, the initiator of the project. However, the success is measured primarily by whether the participants can apply the long term at home what they have learned in the training: Three years after the training were currently at least 67 percent of all children maintain their weight.
How does Obeldicks?
In Obeldicks meet children aged 4 to 16 years, 6 months of time on dates once or twice a week in the pediatric ward. Meet girls and boys separately in the same age groups at the clinic for half a year together practicing exercise, eating habits, frustration control and nutrition. The parents and families of participating children can get at parents’ evenings and individual advice and tips to help their children. Moreover, there are also parents meetings where stands of experience with cooking recipes, weighing and sport motivation in the foreground. At the beginning of each Obeldicks-course is a thorough medical examination of the child. This possible diseases to be detected lead to obesity. Sometimes seen in this investigation that the cause of obesity is a psychological problem, such as a trauma from violence or abuse experience. In this case, the child is hospitalized before Obeldicks program on the station of the psychosomatic Child and Adolescent Clinic. Obeldicks also the program itself is designed so that the children only for the duration of the training unit must say a few hours of one to two days per week in the hospital. Read the rest of this entry »
Are diagnosed each year in Spain, 1,100 new cases of diabetes in children and much of it is detected late. Thus, 45% of children between 5 and 10 years who are diagnosed with diabetes also show state of ketoacidosis, a serious complication that is due to a very marked lack of insulin.
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Hyperglycemia was defined as the increase in blood glucose levels. The most common causes are receive less insulin than needed, having consumed more carbohydrates than normal, submitting an infectious disease.
The most common symptoms are intense thirst, need for frequent urination and fatigue. Also headache or abdominal pain, vomiting or cramps in the legs.
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Gestational diabetes is a specific disorder that occurs during pregnancy, which is distinguished by an increase in blood glucose, among other conditions, but that after birth the baby and usually disappears during the postpartum period.
This is because during pregnancy the placenta produces hormones such as estrogen, cortisol and lactogen, which can block the work of insulin, which is responsible for regulating blood glucose. When gestational diabetes is not treated, can cause severe consequences on the health of the pregnant woman and baby, one of the most common infections are usually in the urinary tract.
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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.
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There are two types of diabetes: juvenile (or type 1 diabetes mellitus) and in adults, obese and pregnant (type 2).
The following symptoms are typical of children and adolescents: pee more often than normal (polyuria) for having increased their urine output, this occurs both day and night, are very thirsty and drink too much water (polydipsia), lose weight even if they have more appetite (polofagia).
Children or babies should be administered drugs sometimes a delicate matter, since specific medicine for the little ones, there are hardly any. In severe disease, however, parents have no other choice. A further concern, however, they can adopt: Antibiotics cause to our latest findings of a Danish study, no diabetes.
Taking certain medications in early childhood can be proven to influence the development of the immune system. Antibiotics are considered a potential risk for the development of the flora in the gastrointestinal tract. The gastrointestinal tract has its major influence on the immune system of humans. A type-1 diabetes is triggered, for example by a malfunction of the immune system. Since the question naturally arises: Can cause the administration of antibiotics in young children diabetes?