COVID could be causing diabetes in children, according to some scientists

The shadow of the pandemic is elongated.To the sequelae generated in mental health, a long irrigation of chronic diseases that may arise as a result of an infection can be added.

COVID-19 increases the risk of subsequent heart effects, neurological symptoms or pulmonary disorders, among others.Now also the evidence that points to the possibility that the virus favors the appearance of diabetes.

It is known that this disease increases the risk of poor health, including suffering a serious case by COVID-19.Experts are now detecting just the reverse situation: Covid-19 patients are developing diabetes, especially minors.

Last September, a study revealed that of more than 285,000 children with Covid, 0.04 % were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes during the following 6 months.That represents an increase of 72% compared to the rate detected in a group of comparison of children without a history of infection.

Experts point out in work that findings do not prove that COVID is responsible, but the results add to a body of increasing evidence that link Sars-Cov-2 and diabetes.

At the beginning of the year, an investigation of the University of California detected an increase in the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children between March 2020 and March 2021 than one would expect from previous years.

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An analysis of data from the centers for the control and prevention of diseases of the United States (CDC), discovered a higher risk? Up to 166% higher depending on the set of valued features?of diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in patients under 18, 30 days after an infection by COVID-19.

In Germany or United Kingdom, studies have reached similar conclusions.Also in our country the specialists have perceived an increase in diagnosis of diabetes type 1 in children under 15 for 2020.

New diagnosis of type 2 diabetes have also been notified in people who have had the coronavirus.A study by the Children's Hospital of Colorado (USA) detected a 77% increase in cases among young people (from 8 to 21 years old) during the first year of the pandemic.

how could the Covid generate the disease

There are many reasons that could explain the figures, he explains in Quartz Sharon Saydah, the main scientist of the CDC who worked in the report on diabetes.

"It could be that the Covid triggered an autoimmune response that led to diabetes; perhaps children with a predisposition to diabetes had more serious cases of covid, and they were diagnosed with diabetes only after; or parents could be more attentive toChildren who had Covid and be faster to recognize the signs of diabetes. "

Type 1 diabetes is much less common than type 2 diabetes, normally linked to adulthood and, often, associated with factors such as obesity.

On the contrary, type 1 is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks by mistakeenergy.I don't know knowing what the condition could generate.Although it is believed that viruses could be a potential trigger.

An investigation published in August 2021 in Cell Metabolism revealed that the SARS-COV-2 attenuates the levels and secretion of insulin in the pancreas and induces cell apoptosis?

alarm signs after an infection by COVID-19

For those parents whoThey can be worried, specialists recommend being attentive to their children's symptoms, especially in the weeks and months after a Covid infection.

"The parents of the children who have had Covid must know the different signs and symptoms of diabetes, to ensure that they receive the attention they need," says Saydah.

The increase in thirst, the desire to urinate, weight loss and fatigue can be signs of diabetes, and an early diagnosis helps avoid more serious risks.

Like all viruses, triggering a response toi.

I have no evidence ... but you don't doubt the case of my son either.Two months after Covid, in a healthy child and without a family history.

I have suspected him from the first moment my 18 -month -old son debuted ... Covid spent a couple of times.A child who was born healthy and without close relatives diabetic ... Anyway, this pandemic has fascinated us in many ways.

@Marintxo @mothermom Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease, there is no diabetic relatives to develop it.I am the only one in my family, for example.
Covid is already another song, it could be perfectly.

One with type 1 from the second dose of the Covid with 47 years.Casualities?Well, I will never know.

Javi2212 said:
one with type 1 from the second dose of the COVID with 47 years.Casualities?Well, I will never know.

I also debut recently and I have put the three rigor vaccines and that I was reluctant to the issue of vaccination, sometimes I also think about it, but I know it is a harmful thought because nothing can be done.
That yes, I don't think I get more dose that I have it clear.

They say that hurries are not good and that patience is the mother of science, but vaccines did not have to put them with a shoe we would like or not ... I don't know, they say you have to put the risk-benefit factor in the tilt.

If the benefit is for society in general for my good is.

@madmax are viruses, not vaccines.

Vaccines are attenuated viruses

@madmax, no, they are genetic parts of the DNA or the RNA of the virus, but do not produce the disease or cell infection by the virus.
Many type 1 diabetes would be avoided with vaccines against the viruses that cause them.

There are several types of vaccines

Source: Link
"HRNM vaccines (Pfizer-Bionntech or Modern)
To awaken the immune response, the system of many vaccines consists in injecting the attenuated or inactivated microbe in our organisms.This is not the case of RNM vaccines.Instead, for these vaccines an RNM created in a laboratory is used to teach our cells to produce a protein, or just a portion of a protein, which triggers the immune response of our organisms.This immune response, which generates antibodies, is what helps us protect ourselves and avoid getting sick because of that microbe in the future ".

All vaccines activate the immune system.

Those first "force" your cells to produce a protein that is toxic (the famous spike) so that your immune system generates antibodies against it.That is, the immune system generates antibodies against "something" that your own cells have produced after inoculation and this is the novelty with respect to those of attenuated viruses.In the traditional the body fights a strange agent who has inoculated you.In RNAs they fight against an agent who have produced your own cells by mandate of the inoculated RNA.

Type 1 diabetes is an abnormal immune response against pancreas cells.If it can occur after Covid infection I think it can also occur due to the "stimulation" of vaccines.Because both produce an immune reaction.

@ Salad, the effect of vaccines and virus is already studied, it is not the same.

Studies have been conducted on short -term volunteers.

No one knows the medium -term side effects, if to develop a vaccine and test it, 10 years are needed ... This has not been the case, due to circumstances of the script.

I am not alarmist but there has been no material time to see its side effects in the long run that is a certainty.

I don't want to comment more because I don't want to generate controversy.Thanks for your opinions

@Madmax, the largest increase in diabetes 1 has been seen in children under 5 years, and those are not vaccinated, but the vaccine is already being advised in young children, because the risk if the virus is contracted is much greater than theSide effects of the vaccine.
All vaccines act by activating the immune system, but the triggers of the disease are viruses.

DT1 comes from an immune attack, if for any reason the system is activated, antidiabetic antibodies are also developed in large quantities.In my case it was a sad urine infection that finished off the pancreas that had been attacked, they say, for years, I was weak and an infection that is nothing would be serious.
So if this predisposition is born or has, the COVID or any other virus will make that in adults, who have been surviving for years without knowing it to the antibody ramks, end without beta cells and with some reserve.

Beyond the immediate side effects, the anti -Vacunas ensure that these vaccines can involve consequences for medium and long term health.“The side effects of vaccines are associated with the moment the immune response is generated !! And that is in the short term.That is why it is allowed to approve them with a short -term reviewed security profile, because they know that in the medium and long term they will not produce anything ”,

"If you look at what is happening with vaccines is that they are losing efficacy over time, so it is not expected that there are long -term effects, biologically it is not plausible."