Information about you and your child diabetes

Information about you and your child diabetes

If the diagnosis of injury to your child's diabetes, you may feel oppressed, anger and anxiety about the future. The staff can help you take care of diabetes to cope with the challenges that await you.

It is quite normal to have difficult feelings when the diagnosis is infecting your child with diabetes. But should not this case rob your child's liberty or terminate your usual family. Which means that you have your child if they are managed carefully as part of everyday life.

Professor Peter Hindmarsh explains of the University College Hospital in London, why should you expect.

The first few days

You should be presented and the child after the diagnosis directly to a dedicated team under the auspices of diabetes.

It will provide care for your child by this team, either as a patient in the hospital or provided in your home. This will depend on your desires and the needs of your child.

If your child's admission to the hospital, there should be facilities for you to stay in the hospital as well.

Professor Hindmarsh says: "The first few days with the care team is the starting point for your learning about diabetes."

"You are to learn everything about the case, sugar test blood and give insulin for your child to food and exercise."

Should care team includes among others:

• pediatrician specialist consultant with diabetes

• diabetes specialist nurse in children

• dietitian familiar with the needs of children

• specialist in psychology in children

Professor Hendermash says: "Our goal is to fathers and mothers access to a safe level to return to their home with their child. He added:" This usually takes about five days, but this can vary. The process must occur, especially pace. "

You can expect a detailed and practical sessions about how and when to conduct the level of sugar in your child's blood test using a finger prick test and how to give insulin injections.

A dietitian will assess your child's diet and discusses how the adaptation to the diet of a family with diabetes.

Care team will also talk to you about how to manage diabetes to your child at school or nursery if possible.

It must continue school or nursery care team. Member of the team will visit the school to discuss the care your child needs.

"It is important how the diagnosis on your child's emotional impact. Professor Hindmarsh says:" There is often a period of shock, then anger, and then rejected the idea, followed by acceptance gradual. "" Parents should talk about their feelings and the feelings of the child with a psychiatrist ideally. "

The first few months

You have to be confident enough to take the first steps toward diabetes management at your child a few days later. This is taken to mean the house if he had received the first treatment in the hospital.

You must keep in regular touch with the diabetes care team.

Professor Hindmarsh says: "Parents and children come to see the care team in the hospital almost every two weeks at this stage." "We'll discuss how you act you and your child and answer any questions."

He said: "There is a phone number and email to make sure that parents have access to the team whenever they need it."

It will give you many of the care teams No. 24 hours in an emergency.

You may find your child and difficulty adjusting to life with diabetes at the outset. for example:

• You may have to change your diet for your family

• You may worry about your child that he is different from his friends

• Clalkma will get used to a new routine of sugar in the blood tests and insulin injections

All of this will become easier with time. Please do not hesitate to contact our care for questions or concerns.

When the situation stabilizes

You will feel in the end that you can trust your child's diabetes management without regular support from the care team.

You will have by that time a good understanding of how food and exercise effect on the level of sugar in your child's blood and how to deal with insulin.

You should also understand hypoglycaemia. When the sugar level drops in your child's blood dramatically, happen to have symptoms such as fibrillation, sweating, fatigue, headache or changes in behavior. You learn how to prevent and treat hypoglycaemia cases

Other.

Professor Hindmarsh says: "When you settle parent-child actually, I expect to see them once every three months."

These should include visits from the age of 12 a comprehensive health examination once a year at least. Your child will be tested for the presence of damage in their eyes and their feet and signs of circulatory and kidney.

When your child grows up, it is important to work with the care team to teach your child how to manage the situation alone.

Professor Hind marsh says, "when your child is very young, ask him to do things like bring several injections or skin disk during the injection." "Increased participation grow from such acts."

The team should care during visits to let your child to discuss his feelings and his fears that Hardhat gradually become adults have diabetes.