The Eva Perón Children's Hospital Diabetes Service does a thorough job with about 60 children suffering from diabetes.
The objective of professionals is that children improve their quality of life, teaching them healthy habits to lead a normal life, always with their parents.
For year the service detects an average of 10 new cases, and so far this year 8 patients with the condition approached.
Yesterday at the Auditorium of the Children's hospital, who are in charge of the service received parents with diabetes, members of the group "Little Values". Together they developed activities for the treatment of children based on the game.
The members of the service, Pablo Camji and Carolina Villagra, explained to El Ancasti that the accompaniment of the parents and the environment is essential for the overcoming of the diabetic children, especially because they begin at very early ages, before the two years of life.
"We are in charge of the health of the diabetic child, and we work for overcoming. The cases arise every year, the average of having 8 children so far this year gives us the guideline that there are more children with different types of diabetes,Type 1 or type 2 that has to do with the lifestyle and foods consumed by the little ones, the main factors they will consider to have a healthy child, ”explained the endocrinologist, Pablo Camji.
For his part, nutritionist Carolina Villagra warned about the consequences of poor diet and, therefore, obesity in children, since many can trigger type 2 diabetes, given bad habits.
"The main risk factor is obesity and can be prevented, the environment that leads children to be sedentary, not doing sports or being all day with the cell phone must change from their environment. Parents must take theirChildren to the doctor, educate and instill good habits, everything is learned in the house, "he said.
Workshop
They said that service activities take place every Tuesday, where children with diabetes with their parents carry out a workshop to learn about good food habits, which everyone can participate.
III Diabetes Days
With a wide call, the III Diabetes Del NOA Conference organized by the Local Committee of the Argentine Diabetes Society, under the slogan "Diabetes summons us for new challenges."He explained to El Ancasti that from society they seek to train, organize and define with the State public policies that can reverse and stop the demographic explosion of diabetic population. "We have to reverse this, the challenge is to be able to implement healthy habits in early education in early education.Society has many challenges, in principle, improving care for sick people and that all patients have medicines without distinction, ”he culminated.
