Diabetes is an incurable disease that imposes demanding life habits that, although adults can assimilate, the little ones have to learn to live with them.With this purpose, to teach them to be diabetics, a summer camp in Villatoya has been held, organized by the Albacete Diabetes Association and that was closed this weekend resulting to be a success.
Throughout a week, 16 children between seven and 16, have enjoyed the Cabriel river of fun activities in the shore.Among aquatic games, night evenings, dances, sports activities, donkey walks, visits to the garden and descents through the river, have become familiar with insulin handling and have learned some more of the ideal eating habits to keep thedisease.
altruistic help."It has been a success, we will have to repeat the experience next year," said the president of the Diabetes Association, María José Salmerón, who thanked the selfless collaboration of the endocrine César Gonzalo and the nurses Francisco Corrales, Javier Sevilla, Mónica FernándezAnd Rocío Rodenas, who for six days have lived with the boys teaching them to cope with diabetes, "their work is unpayable, they have been pending 24 hours a day, all week, without them we could have made the camp."
These guys need supervision, because several times a day and even at midnight, about three in the morning, a capillary blood glucose test must be performed to check their sugar level and depending on the result calculate the insulin that must be injected or thehydrates that must ingest.
This is the first time that a summer camp is organized aimed at diabetic children in the province, however it has been a success for boys to learn to make their decisions regarding their illness, learn to live with it and acquire someHealthy life habits, «It is vital for them, we diabetics say that we are human calculators, we spend the day calculating hydrates, even when we are going to buy a food studying the label to know the amount we can eat, it is important to learn all thisTo prevent glycemia from the presence of health personnel is essential so that these boys can leave camp in summer like other children of their age.
A presence that the Albacete Diabetes Association also claims in the educational centers, «we have never had nurses who go to schools to do the controls, it is the parents who have to go see if their children have to prick insulin or ifThey have to lunch some more amount, just like when they leave with the school the parents have to accompany them ».
And it is that the routine of these patients is not always the same, "neither all diabetics are equal, nor a diabetic is always the same, even throughout the day you can suffer many variations."