In Spain, it is estimated that around 30,000 children suffer from diabetes type 1. Many education professionals find doubts and difficulties when managing emergencies with students suffering from this disease.
This information gap causes permanent uneasiness in parents, so the biochemist Adrián Idoate Bayón has created the book: Student with diabetes?The Teachers Manual: Know, help and understand your student with diabetes, a manual aimed mainly at teachers who have students with diabetes.This book, in addition to offering an orientation to manage emergency cases (fainting, glucose level control, among others), also explains how to create an integrating environment that avoids a sense of isolation for the student.
Adrián Idoate has become an important figure in this area to be behind the AIB Diabetes project, a portal designed to disseminate information of interest related to the disease and create a community that uses that knowledge to improve its quality of life.
form and inform about diabetes in schools
Correct training and adequate tools by the teaching team can mean a before and after for students suffering from the disease.From Diabetes AIB they explain that the treatment of this disease in the school context remains an unknown in many centers due to lack of adequate training.Therefore, the manual aims to create safer spaces in school offering a professional orientation to know how to act with students with diabetes.(To see the book, you should click on the previous link).
In the manual, Adrián Idoate provides theoretical information to know what diabetes consists of and how it affects children, in addition to mentioning the most appropriate tools to face emergency situations.
This last aspect is of vital importance for children's families, which on different occasions explain that ignorance of the disease can lead to risk situations.
For example, in case of loss of knowledge due to a strong low -glucose drop, it needs to act quickly and correctly inject the glucagon that will allow the child to regain consciousness.
From communities such as Diabetes Aib, the importance of the teaching team has the necessary tools that allow identifying and managing this disease safely.
Creating safe and inclusive spaces in schools: how to color the world of diabetes in schools
The aforementioned manual not only provides a practical orientation for the realization of glucose or training measurements for the correct administration of insulin or glucagon, but also step on and develops an explanation focused on better understanding the student.Being especially aimed at the teaching team, the book emphasizes the need to normalize this issue and, therefore, "color the world of diabetes in the school."
AIB Diabetes also explains that through recent studies and research it is being able to know how the academic performance of students with diabetes can be affected or committed to this disease.Therefore, the community adds that offering specific school control and support can be of great help to students who must face different adverse situations daily.
The author of the manual considers that children suffering from the disease are heroes for the effort they make daily.Therefore, the manual aims to be an objective support resource for all those who fight every day to achieve an informed society about the disease.
