Disease Analysis: Pediatric Diabetes

According to the United States Library of Medicine, diabetes is a disease that occurs when the body does not make or use insulin correctly, therefore causing fluctuating amounts of glucose in the blood. Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of adults and children from various cultures. According to the American Diabetes Association (2014), someone is diagnosed with diabetes every 19 seconds. The Center of Disease Control and Prevention most recent statistical report indicated there were 29.1 million adults and children affected by diabetes. Those numbers are astounding. Unfortunately, the American Diabetes Association (2014) estimates by year of 2050, one out of three adults will have diabetes. Therefore, it is imperative that adults take aggressive measures to prevent this disease. By the same token, diabetes diagnosed in children and adolescent is becoming more prevalent every day. The American Diabetes Association (2014) reported there were about 216, 00 children in the United States with diabetes. It is predicted that one out three children will be diagnosed with diabetes in their life. The statistics for both adults and children with diabetes are frightening; however, early detection can help lower the risk of developing the debilitating effects of diabetes.

Helen Keller once said, “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” Throughout life each person will face obstacles, but will only be defined by how they overcome or fail. In today’s society health and wellness has become such a challenge. Many things in our environment, social status, financial position, and culture can affect what we eat and our health status. Families in many countries are facing new onset of diseases and disorders, in which modern medicine now has the ability to combat to prolong good quality of life. Through research and education, families are now being able to understand juvenile diabetes. As a result, children are being able to live more normal lives.

However, because Danny does have diabetes, his health is in a poorer state and his risk for developing cardiovascular disease is increased. Diabetes is defined as having a fasting plasma glucose value of 7.0 mmol/l (126 mg/dl) or higher. Every year, diabetes claims many lives; for example, in 2008, diabetes was responsible for 1.3 million deaths all across the world (World Heart Federation, N.p., n.d). When looking at cardiovascular disease with diabetes, data shows that of all diabetics who die, 60% of them die as a result of cardiovascular disease (World Heart Federation, N.p., n.d). Cardiovascular risk increases with raised glucose values. The risk of cardiovascular events is from two to three times higher in people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and the risk is disproportionately higher in women (World Heart Federation, N.p., n.d). From this we can infer that if my mother or I did have diabetes, it would be likely that that would increase our risk to a greater degree compared to Danny’s risk, because he is a male. Cardiovascular risk increases with raised glucose values. In addition, within certain age groups, people with diabetes have a two-fold increase in the risk of stroke. Patients with diabetes also have a poorer prognosis after cardiovascular events compared to people without diabetes. Primary care access to measurement of blood glucose and cardiovascular risk assessment as well as

Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by high levels of glucose in the blood resulting from defects in insulin production, insulin action, or both. The Insulin resistant patients are growing continuously in american children. New management strategies are helping minorities with diabetes live long and healthy lives. Diabetes is one of the most common known diseases in the african american community today. It’s associated with serious complications, but timely diagnosis and treatment. About 208,000 young black people in the united states under age 20 had diabetes both type 1 diabetes 2 in 2012. Scarcely Type 2 diabetes are increasing in children and adolescents. The frequency of diabetes in today society coincides with the food consumption, lack of exercise and lack of signs symptoms. Children who are of a minority in modern society tend to be more two times more likely to have diabetes mellitus , than any other child in the world.

Diabetes is a disease that runs on both sides of the family. On my father’s side, I have an aunt and grandma whom have recently been diagnosed with diabetes. On my mother’s side, my grandpa along with many of his siblings has had diabetes as long as I can remember. I also have a few uncles with prediabetes. Prediabetes is when a person has a higher blood sugar level than normal but isn’t quite high enough for the person to be considered diabetic. Each one of my family members that have diabetes has been diagnosed as Type 2. Type 2 diabetes does run in families, it has to do with genetics as well as children following in the footsteps of their parents. Adults with children are constantly setting bad habits and may not even realize it. Eating healthy and getting exercise is a habit that everyone needs to learn. According to the American Diabetes Association, if you have type 2 diabetes, the risk of your child getting diabetes is 1 in 7 if you were diagnosed before age 50 and 1 in 13 if you were diagnosed after age 50. A child 's risk is also increased when the parent with type 2 diabetes is the mother, and if both parents have type 2 diabetes, the child 's risk is about 1 in 2. Although neither of my parents currently have diabetes, the disease could still be passed on as the years pass by, my younger brother and I could still be at risk for developing diabetes, which is why I am taking every precaution I can at the young age of nineteen.

Contracting diabetes is one of the health risks I might face in my lifetime. Diabetes is a condition or a metabolic disease that develops when the body is unable to utilize sugars and subsequently results in high levels of glucose in the blood. Much of the food eaten is digested and converted into sugars or glucose, which is to be converted into energy for use by the body. A hormone called insulin produced by the pancreas enables body cells to absorb glucose from the blood. When the pancreas is not able to produce enough insulin or when the body is not able to properly use the insulin, these sugars accumulate in the blood and this is when a person is said to have contracted diabetes. (Kelly, 2015)

Diabetes growth is devastating to American families. Diabetes affects an estimated 23.6 million people in the United States (Healthy People 2020, 2016). In 2006, nearly ten years ago the number of individuals diagnosed with diabetes in the united states was just 17.3 million. Additionally, this number of those diagnosed has doubled since the year 2000 (CDC, 2015). Diabetes is defined by a disease in which the body cannot produce enough or any insulin for proper digestion of sugars and glucose. The elevated levels of glucose within the body cause major complications, some even irreversible (DaVita, 2016). With such an increase in diagnosed diabetes cases, this issue needs to be addressed and public action has to be taken. In a time where grocery stores are readily accessible with fresh fruits and vegetables to maintain a healthy lifestyle America should not have this issue.

Type 2 Diabetes is a prevalent and growing epidemic in South Texas, according to the American Diabetes Association. It is the community’s duty and obligation to recognize the problems and risk factors that attribute to Type 2 Diabetes, so that further generations can avoid these lifestyle habits. Type 2 Diabetes is an insulin deficiency disease that occurs in people aged 40 or older, and is much more common than Type 1 Diabetes because it can be acquired genetically, but it is more commonly a progressive disease based on the individual’s unhealthy lifestyle, which is why adolescents are still at risk to contract Type 2 Diabetes. When a person has Type 2 Diabetes, they may suffer from insulin resistance. The insulin levels in their body are too low, or the cells in a person’s body do not respond properlyto the correct amount of insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas that strictly regulates the use and amount of glucose (sugar) levels in an individual’s blood. Sugar must be stored for the future or used as energy by the body. Without insulin regulating an individual’s blood sugar level, a person may become hyperglycemic, with too high of a

Often, people think of the children first when there is a paediatric diagnosis of Type I diabetes; however, families are affected to a great extent when learning management of the disease. To explore this issue further I developed a PICOT question: “how do families of children with newly diagnosed Type I diabetes adjust to accommodate to this long-term chronic illness in their daily lives?” I searched the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) using various research strategies to find evidence to support my question. First, I created my search terms; “children with newly diagnosed diabetes” and “family coping.” I paired them with the Boolean operator “AND”, hoping to narrow my results. I found that this narrowed

The risk classification for the proband to obtain any of the diseases common in the family are significantly high regarding two specific diseases; type two diabetes and hypertension. Type two diabetes seems to be the most common disease in the proband’s family. The proband’s mother, sisters, maternal grandmother, and maternal aunts all have type two diabetes. Type two diabetes is a heterogeneous condition that is defined as hyperglycemia in relation to relative insulin deficiency. There is evidence that type two diabetes has a strong genetic component, those who have one parent with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of having the disease. The main difference between type one and type two diabetes is that type one has an absolute deficiency of insulin, whereas type two can have high, normal or low insulin levels. The number one treatment and management plan for someone who has type two diabetes is controlling weight, exercise and dietary intake. If these changes in lifestyle do not improve the disease, then there are oral medications and insulin that are prescribed by a physician if needed (Gerard,

Type 2 diabetes is typically caused by genetics and environmental factors, but also is caused by excess weight and inactivity such as gaining too much weight and lack of exercise. Type 2 diabetes is seen often in adolescents twenty years old and younger because children and teenagers are commonly known to gain weight and fail to exercise as often as they should. When it comes to diabetes and the different types, weight is a huge factor.

When this happens, it is called insulin resistance (“Insulin”). Immediately the pancreas tries harder to produce more insulin to compensate for the lacking insulin. After a while, the hard working pancreas wears out and cannot keep up anymore (“Insulin”). This type is also known as adult-onset diabetes because it is more commonly found in adults. However, it is now being found more in teens, children, and young adults due to high rates of obesity (D’Adamo). So how exactly did James get type two diabetes? There are two main ways that this could have happened. The first way is that James could have inherited it. Parents who were diagnosed before the age of 50 have a one in seven chance of passing it on to their kids (“Genetics”). Parents who were diagnosed after the age of 50 have a one in thirteen chance of passing it onto their child (“Genetics”). A child’s risk of getting the disease is increased when it is the mother who has it (“Genetics”). If both parents have type two diabetes, then there is a one in two chance of passing it on to their child (“Genetics”). The second way that James could have been diagnosed is by living an unhealthy lifestyle. A total of

The main concern that JB as well as this author identified as needing to be addressed to ensure JB’s health and well being for her and her children was the prevention of diabetes mellitus. JB’s genogram revealed that she had numerous family members on her mother’s side that suffered from the consequences of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus. Her maternal grandmother and four out of five of her grandmother’s children, including JB’s mother, acquired type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Juvenile Diabetes is a disease that more and more children are getting each day and it affect about 0.1 percent of children that are school age. There are two types of diabetes that are common in children. The first one is type one diabetes and the second one is type two diabetes. There are major health problems associated with type one including troubles physically, a multidisciplinary approach by physician, nurse and dietitian is needed to treat juvenile diabetes. In patients with new onset type 1 diabetes, lifelong insulin therapy must be started. As a chronic disease diabetes mellitus requires long term medical attention both to limit the development of its devastating physical and psychological complications and to manage them when they do occur. As for the ADA (American Diabetes Association) Diabetes Mellitus is a disproportionately expensive disease; I read that in 2002, the per capita cost of health care was $13,243 for people with diabetes, while it was $2,560 for those without diabetes. As of now there is no cure for Juvenile Diabetes but there is ongoing research to test medications and new products to find a cure for Juvenile Diabetes. There are however many coping methods, support groups, counseling, insulin injections and pumps that children with juvenile diabetes make a part of their everyday lives.

In today’s world, parents have an abundance of worries when it comes to their children. Drugs, bad grades, and pre marital sex are just some things that may plague a parent with sleepless nights. But even on the worst of those nights of worry, most parents can’t imagine that their child could face an illness. Not just a runny nose or seasonal flu, but an illness that would affect their child throughout his or her entire life. Diabetes is a disease without a cure, and one that more, and more children have to live with.