Type 1 Diabetes Children

Diabetes has recently become a focal point of health care systems around the world due to its high prevalence and the severity of secondary complications caused by the disease. Over the course of my project on diabetes, I have had the opportunity to speak with a group of diabetics to understand from a patient’s perspective how diabetes is managed in a rural community. While I found that while some patients ignored treatment and refused to make any dietary changes, the majority of the patients I interviewed were well-informed and actively managing diabetes in their everyday life.

Diabetes is a serious medical condition that can also be a risk factor for the development of many different diseases and conditions including dementia, heart disease, and CVA. Thus, effective management of diabetes is very important. Patient compliance can be difficult to achieve if the person affected with diabetes is not educated about the illness or treatment, has not fully accepted the diagnosis or its severity, will not change habits or believes that the prescribed treatment regime is too difficult or ineffective, has cultural beliefs conflicting with the treatment regime, experiences stressful events, lacks social support, or suffers from psychiatric issues unrelated to diabetes (Gerard, Griffin, & Fitzpatrick, 2010). As one may expect, adequate education programs are essential tools when dealing with diabetics. Solid education will provide the patient with information as well as teaching the necessary skills to manage the disorder. The primary focus of any diabetes education program must be to empower patients as a part of the multidisciplinary team. This team should be focused at integrating diabetes into the lives of the patients and this focus should be based on the decisions made by the patient, otherwise the treatment plan can be looked on as forced (Gerald et al., 2010). Every patient stricken with diabetes has the right to benefit from an education program of this type. First, basic education and facts should be administered directly following the diagnosis of

Empowerment parents of children with diabetes through provision of resources and emotional support, aids in dealing with the chronic disease¹⁵. Support groups can not only help parents keep abreast of new treatment options, but also provide strategies to better care for their children¹⁶. Face-to-face support from healthcare professionals provides reassurance as well as psychological and emotional support in dealing with the

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.

Culture is the pattern of action and the ways of perceiving, feeling, and thinking acquired growing up in a particular group of people

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.

Although neither of the instances: the young adult patient with a DKA episode, nor my instructor is an adolescent or a child, I decided to explore type I diabetes in adolescents and children because this is the development stage where most adolescents and children assume certain responsibilities. This is the stage where parents would like their children to have a role-play in their self-management of type 1 diabetes.

As a patient, coping with being newly diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, can be very stressful for the patient and family members involved in the patient plan of care. The patient will have to make drastic lifestyle changes in order to be in compliance with the recommended treatment by the members of the health care team. Being a patient, making the necessary lifestyle adjustment will assist with management of the newly diagnosed illness. This essay will discuss a family member who was recently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type II and has to take insulin. The family member is trying to gain knowledge in order to have a clear understanding of this illness. A questionnaire has been created for the family member regarding being diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. The results from the questionnaire will be discussed and further analyzed. There will be a discussion on how the patient, family and friends are accepting and their impact on the patient being diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. Finally an analysis of the care plan developed for diabetes mellitus will be discussed. The purpose of this essay is to help facilitate the patient and family members involved in the patient plan of care with education and management of diabetes mellitus.

Type 1 diabetes is a debilitating problem that strikes too many unfortunate children across the country. It is especially hard when it happens to infants who attend nursery schools: they have to deal with a life-altering situation while away from their parents. Thankfully, there are ways you can help make it easier on both your child and their nursery school.

How adolescents manage type I diabetes is a rather interesting topic to me. This topic interests me because I have a friend who has type I diabetes and because I learned some things about this disease in my class, Nutrition Science, and I wanted to learn more about it. I wanted to do some more research, particularly looking at children with Type I Diabetes. Some information that I do already know about Type I Diabetes is that people, who have this unfortunate disease, need to take insulin shots. Without these insulin shots, one may go into a diabetic shock, and can even die. Most people with this type of diabetes are

In the article Diabetes Management at Camps for Children with Diabetes, recommendations are given on how to manage a diabetes camp for children. The idea behind the camp is to create an environment that will be safe for children with diabetes. Through the course of this camp, a main area of focus is education. A list of topics that children with diabetes should be educated on includes blood glucose monitoring, carbohydrate counting, the importance of diabetes control, and diabetes complications. It has been shown that these camps are very effective for children. The article concludes that diabetes camps are an effective teaching environment in helping children to manage their diabetes (American Diabetes Association,

Type 1 diabetes is a place in the insulin-producing pancreatic β cells are gradually destroyed, and ultimately can not produce insulin autoimmune diseases. Type 1 accounts for all US diagnosis from 5% to 10% of diabetes, and is a world growing from about 3% per year. Although it is most commonly diagnosed in children and adolescents, it is not uncommon to be diagnosed later in life adults. Type 1 diabetes in adulthood may be slowly after diagnosis - the progress of diabetic called latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) form, or type 1.5

Culture by definition is the identity or feeling of belonging to a group. It is part of a person's self-conception and self-perception and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality or any type of social group that has its own distinct culture. To me that definition couldn't be more spot on but let's go more in depth over the past few months in my English class we have been trying to learn what our culture is and what part culture plays in our daily lives so in this essay I will be sharing with you what I think culture is what it means to me and how I think it impacts our way of living and the way we look at each other as human beings and how we treat each other and how all this makes up my culture

Culture is defined as “The ideas, attitudes, customs, beliefs, values and social behaviour of a particular group of people or society that are passed on from generation to generation” (Brentnall, A., n.d.).

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.