Six -year -old boy with diabetes asks for help in buses

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six -year -old boy with diabetes asks for help in buses
Last update: July 18, 2013 07:08 |By daily writing the page

Moses, a six -year -old boy, was diagnosed with diabetes 1 (high level of blood glucose) since he was nine months old.He is the eldest of two brothers and lives with his parents in a humble house of the "El Carmen" community, in Cojutepeque.

His father, Nelson Zelaya, works by collecting packages and selling CDs in the streets of Cojutepeque, while his mother stopped working to be able to take care of him and his younger brothers.

Every weekend, father and son go to buses traveling from Cojutepeque to San Salvador to ask for the passengers, since money is not enough to be able to cope with the expenses of such a expensive disease.

"With what I work is not enough," reveals the father, who confesses to having lost the vergϋenza to the need to gather a little money.

With little Moses in his arms, Zelaya mobilizes from one bus to another and explains to the passengers his situation.Sometimes they return home empty -handed, but on a day of luck they find people with a good heart who give them a few coins.

Zelaya remembers the day his son had the first crisis."We did not know what to do, so we took the doctor who said we should hospitalize it immediately."

Moses was admitted for eight days at the Sensuntepeque hospital with strong seizures and was then transferred to the Benjamín Bloom Children's Hospital, where he was told that the child had a rise in sugar levels.

The disease affected the lungs and pancreas, so it was sent to the Bloom Intensive Care Unit (UCI).

His parents did not understand how little Moses could suffer from diabetes, since there was no history of such disease in the family.

The genetic and molecular bases of this disease are little defined;However, it is known that the Diabets 1 may appear suddenly from the first weeks of birth.

Diabetes is a chronic condition that appears when the pancreas does not produce sufficient insulin, or when the body fails to use what produces.Insulin allows cells to use blood glucose as a source of energy.

This condition can be triggered by an auto immune disorder or by some infection which attacks the cells that produce insulin through the pancreas.

According to the Salvadoran Association of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, type 1 diabetes - which predominantly affects young people - increases every year by 3%.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in the world there are more than 220 million people with diabetes.By 2030 this figure is calculated will have doubled.

The Calvary of Moses

Moses was admitted to Bloom hospital a full year, until doctors managed to stabilize their glucose levels.Since then, the child has had to wear a balanced diet free of fat and sugar.

The sacrifice of his parents to keep him stable has been a tireless and constant struggle.

Dr. Claudia López, indicates that 5 to 10 years after a minor has been disignicated with diabetes, an avoidance should be done to determine if there are other complications associated with this condition, such as blindness and kidney or heart problems.

"It is important to determine howEvolved the disease or if too large fluctuations have occurred at glucose levels, since that can predispose the patient for other complications, ”says the specialist.

To prevent sugar levels from continuing to rise, Moses should receive two daily insulin doses, in addition to a fiber -rich diet and sugar.

The child's parents should measure blood glucose three times a day."We have rigorous control in a notebook and we have to be pending so that it does not rise to more than 140" they explain.

Each month, the Zelaya must have an approximate of $ 125 for insulin, without counting on the exams.

"Moisés has been suffering from seizures. The doctors of the Bloom have told us that we have to do other exams," reveals the father, who in turn requests the help of altruistic people.

People interested in helping Moses financially can communicate at 7495-3496, with Nelson Zelaya, or 7571-6308, with Patricia Vàsquez, child's parents.

I don't know what to say, it's a really sad case ... :(

I have always thought what would have been of my daughter if I had been born in a poorly developed country ... what a shame!

What a shame!It has to be very hard to meet that situation

Buf ... very hard to read ... :(

Man, in other countries most would be dead.
But come on, there are sites that die of the slightest condition, or hunger, or for any matter associated with misery.

But do not miss or look so far: in Spain they are literally leaving the dependents not to spend a hard.Not in a third -world or underdeveloped country.In Spain.

And I thank that until now I have not taken my health card, because then I do not hard or two months alive.

Hello, because my daughter had seizures with loss of knowledge last Sunday and it was a disaster; it was the first time that my daughter had seizures, my children and my wife crying, I am the father: my 5 -year -old little girl began to convulse as 1 minuteOr more I would say, we had two glucagon with my nerves my wife broke one and I was not able with the other, double the needle, so mix water with sugar and take it through the convulsed mouth and with the purple lips already, toThe 15 minutes arrived the samur

I continue .. my daughter was in 180, they take her to the hospital and look at her for possible epilepsy when she was in 180 when the Samur came and explaining that she had given her water with sugar, yesterday they made a last test to see if it is epilepsy,Luckily I have read here than

It can occur to more people by hypoglycemia, because I was fearing to add another disease that God does not want it because we already have enough

I have also had seizures with some nocturnal hypo.Once the same thing happened to me, the Summa came and when hearing convulsions they said that they better led me to the emergency room to see me a neurologist.It doesn't matter as many times as I am type I and that it is due to hypoglycemia, which has never happened to me, being "normal."You are an ignorant patient who does not know what he says.So I was in the emergency department, then three days admitted to those who did some test.When I was discharged, they referred the neurologist to external consultations, who sent me a brain scanner and a sleep monitoring test.In the end after a year they discharged me and in the report I put that they were troncocónic convulsions due to hypoglycemia episode.Come on, what the patient said, ignorant him.