Diabetes can attack children

CHILDREN who have been convicted diabetes will experience no interruption of growth, provided that comply with all rules for people with diabetes.

"The growth they will not be disturbed, provided they obeyed the rules set by the doctor to use insulin from the outside," said consultant Diabetisi Association of Indonesia (PERSADIA) units Jogja International Hospital (JIH) Prabata, in Yogyakarta, Sunday.

Diabetisi (diabetic) children is mainly due to genetic factors, so long as his life will be very dependent on insulin. "Diabetes is the kind one, and arises from pancreatic beta cells are unable to produce insulin naturally because there are hereditary factors," he said.

According to Prabata, diabetisi type one does not depend on 'sex linkage', for example, diabetic father who is a female offspring will also suffer from diabetes. "The thought was wrong, nothing to do with 'sex linkage', the descendants of men or women both have the same opportunities for a diabetic," he said. He said, people who have a factor could be that the disease before the age of 40 years, if they do not maintain the pattern of his life. However, he denied that people with diabetes should never eat sugar in any form.

"They can still eat sugar, but with adjusted dose of insulin is inserted. Because after all, the body needs sugar," he said. Apart from one diabetisi type, there are two types diabetisi that arise because a person living a lifestyle that is not healthy. According Prabata, children who have the talent to be overweight or already overweight from too small to watch out, because the possibility of suffering from the sugar when it was 40 years old.

Similarly, women who gave birth to a baby weighing more than four pounds, has a vulnerability have diabetes at the age of about 40 years. For type two diabetisi handling, can be done with insulinisasi early, hoping to give a chance to rest the pancreas to recover the cells that have been damaged, so that later returned to produce insulin naturally.

In addition to keeping food intake and lead a healthy lifestyle, the diabetisi according to him should not be stressed and must accept the conditions encountered. "Factors of support from family and the environment is also very important for patients to diabetisi can live their lives," he said.