For 47 years Margarita Then has lived with diabetes.He was diagnosed with that condition when he was barely 12 years old, but after a few days of rejection and wondering why, he understood that he had to learn to live like this.
Hence, he adopted the medical recommendations: diet and treatment, and since then it has remained active and leading a healthy life, although it now helps a walker because the result of a fall suffered damage to the hip.
She knows with detail the details of diabetes, knows the types of treatments that exist, the way in which insulin is administered and the things that should be eaten and those that do not, but still wonders why your diabetes is type I type, that he was supposed to, she was diagnosed with that condition many years before her father.
"The diet is what helps keep the diabetic patient and eat zero sweets," says Margarita, who claims to be 59 years old, but that in the hospital records where he is treated he says that they are 61. He has type I diabetes.
He said that when the doctor told him that it was diabetic, the first thing he did was cry and tell him that he would not diet, but he left and when he arrived at the house he reflected and, then, he began to ingest healthy food, which he has taken from that moment.
He says it is important that patients do not make mistakes when putting insulin, because many do it after breakfast or dinner, and it is the other way around to be before ingesting those foods.
He explained that he uses insulin of the best in the market and that is why it is injected only once a day, not two as indicated in most treatment.
Margarita is one of the patients who participate every year at the Diabetes Fair held by the General Hospital of the Plaza de la Salud (HGPS).
Another patient who has his experience as a 12 -year -old is Héctor Ortíz.With his 53 years he has an active life.Remember that when he was diagnosed with diabetes he felt a lot of fear because he had heard of the damage caused to vision, kidneys and other organs.He said that then his brother, who is a doctor, told him that there are so many millions of diabetics in the world and that what he did was reach that family, so he should know about the disease, orient, check and lead a healthy life.
"Diabetes is a clean disease when you are controlled, now if you neglect it is a knife," he said.
access to treatment
Héctor Ortiz says that he has had high and low because in the country the lack of money and government support forces the patient to eat things that sometimes should not, but that he is a hospital volunteer in the diabetes program and that this gives facilitiesfor access to treatment.
In the country it is estimated that 10 percent of the population is diabetic and 15 percent have risk factors that predisposes to suffer from it.
In the month of November the World Day to Fight Diabetes is celebrated every year.
If the patient is metabolically controlled, he prevents the complications of the disease such as vision problems, diabetic foot amputations and renal failure, among other health problems, among other health problems, recalls the endocrinologist Dolores Mejía.
