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One in ten children with diabetes hides the teacher his disease
One in ten children between six and sixteen who suffers from diabetes hides his illness to the teacher, despite the importance of the teacher in the care of these children, who spend more than a third of their daily time, according to data, according to dataof the Diabetes Foundation.
Child diabetes is characterized by a lack of insulin production, a hormone necessary to live that affects the normal functions of the organism and causes an increase in blood glucose, as explained today by the doctor of the Pediatric Endocrinology Service of the HospitalSevero Ochoa de Madrid, Beatriz García.
In Spain, diabetes affects 1.6 children under fourteen per thousand - about 30,000 children throughout the country - and every year there are about 1,100 new cases, an incidence that is increasing progressively and has begun to affect withMore frequency to younger children.
"In recent years the most important peak of incidence of this disease has moved from 8 or 10 years to children between five or eight years," Garcia added.
One of the employers of the Diabetes Foundation, Rafael Arana, has assured that "the important thing is that children are autonomous, who lead a normal life and take responsibility for themselves, but all that effort is useless if in the environmentSchool there is no understanding of the disease. "
12 percent of children between 6 and 16 years say they had some kind of school problem due to the disease, of them more than half refers to classmates, 44 percent to teachers and 18 percent toThe school management.
For this reason, one in ten children hides their disease to the teacher and that percentage increases to fifteen percent in the case of physical education teachers.
"The common denominator of all the circumstances in which children are the lack of information," said the president of the Association of Diabetics of Alava and father of a girl with this disease, Andoni Lorenzo.
New technologies and in particular the continuous insulin infusion systems have meant a huge improvement in the quality of life of patients, since it not only reduces the number of punctures, but also greater freedom with food and exercise, with exercise,But ignorance in the school environment remains a problem.
Lorenzo has lamented that "the absence of law that guarantees the care of these children at school - which only exists in the Basque Country and in the Balearic Islands - leaves the defenseless father and sometimes forced to leave school and look for another."
The "Carol project has diabetes", which the Diabetes Foundation has presented today, aims to alleviate this lack of information and sensitize teachers and child classmates with type 1 diabetes.
The psychologist Iñaki Lorente has pointed out that "in most teachers there is an absolute predisposition to collaborate in the care of diabetic children" but cannot cover all the specifications of each child and "need strictly necessary technical information and basic knowledge and basic knowledgeadequate ".
The project includes an animation short film that has been recorded in Spanish and English to bring the disease closer to children, and didactic materials adapted to the ages of the different school courses available in all autonomous languages.
The material, which has the support of the Spanish Pediatric Endocrinology Society, includes work sheets that can be used in the usual primary education subjects thatThey explain what the disease is and how the daily routines of a child with diabetes and highlight the attitudes and values that can prevent discrimination situations.
Materials will be distributed through hospitals, education and health councils and other public bodies, as well as in patient and parents associations and will be available on the website of the Diabetes Foundation.