Discipline.Nacho is a clear example that a chronic disease is not the beginning of the end of anything.It is a matter of being rigorous in habits and being well advised by professionals.
If I write that José Ignacio Fernández Iglesias (Alcalá de Henares 1990) is diabetic, everyone who reads this will shrug without recognizing the person in question.
On the other hand, if I say Nacho, the defense that looks number 6 of the first team of Real Madrid, the thing changes.This week he has gone to the forefront by revealing in an interview that, about to leave football due to diagnostic diabetes at age 12.Nothing is further from reality.
Advised by his endocrine, Nacho acknowledges that he is a person who takes great care in his meals and habits, both food and rest, much more than any of his companions, however, that allows him to pay to the highest level, such asProfessional football in the best team in the world, without having a greater number of injuries than their classmates or suffering ups and dickens due to sugar or decrease in sugar.
Nacho is an example for all those people for whom, a chronic disease is not the beginning of the end of anything.It is a matter of being disciplined, rigorous in habits and being well advised by the appropriate specialists.
Taking care of meals and rest, you can pay to the highest level as your classmates
Diabetes is probably the only disease in which there is a very clear relationship between the type of nutrition and food, the medication that the patient has prescribed (either insulin or type 1 or oral antidiabetics, type 2), and theexercise that has been recommended.If we know the effect that each of them has on the patient, we will be able to achieve an adequate blood sugar level, being able to vary it depending on modifying any of the aforementioned parameters.
What exercise is recommended?
Everything will depend on the characteristics of the athlete and the type of diabetes it presents.There are two types of diabetes, type 1 diabetes, also called diabetes insulin depediente, which requires sugar treatment and adjustment by injected insulin.It is usually in young, thin people, that although they eat imports of food, they do not gain weight but quite the opposite, they lose it;The other type of diabetes is type 2 or non -insulin dependent.They are more typical of older people and associated with other conditions such as overweight.
The patient may control it by diet and exercise to reduce weight as well as oral antidiabetics that are taken several times a day.
In the event that with all these measures, glycemia are not satisfactorily controlled, the patient is treated with insulin or, sometimes, with insulin and pills together.When the exercise we are going to perform, it is assumed that it will be intense, we recommend an intake of carbohydrates (bread, fruit, pasta, cookies ...) that must be ingested at least 3 hours before the beginning of it.
If this activity is long as a walk or a game, it is very important to manage liquids every 60 minutes during exercise that have glucose, fructose or sucrose content, like any isotonic drink.The object is this measure is the rapid replacement of liquids, electrolytes such as postassium, and sugars that are consumed during sports activity.
In general, the most suitable sport for diabetic are aerobics such as walking, cycling or swimming.Although well controlled diabetes is not contraindication for performing any sporting activity.
However, there are sports that are contraindicated in this type of patients: they are all inthose that an eventual downward drops endangers the person's life.Among others we find underwater fishing, motocross or paratrooper.In all of them, a fainting caused by the decrease in blood sugar can have fatal consequences.Nor are repeated contact sports such as boxing or martial arts recommended due to the possibility of having a vascular lesion or a wound, or a bruise on the puncture site.
There are recommendations that we have to follow when injecting insulin.This must be injected into sites away from the areas that can be received.
In the case of football players, we must avoid puncture on the thighs.The reason is that a blow that is received in an area where we have administered insulin, causes an increase in vascularization in the area that has received it, and a bruise will form.
This increase in vascular irrigation will cause faster absorption of insulin administered, which will undoubtedly lead to hypoglycemia.It is also important that athletes with diabetes have caramelos or sugar at hand to take at some time of hypoglycemia crisis, which will be solved without major problems.
It is important not to perform any sports activity until the insulin dose is adjusted as well as the blood sugar level.A detailed study must be carried out from the metabolic point of view before being able to do a physically demanding activity.More difficult to prevent are blood sugar increases (hyperglycemia).
for children and adolescents
-Hard the puncture schedules to check the blood sugar level.It is important to make time changes depending on the time when the ejericicio is planned.
-Importing the puncture place depending on the sport.Avoid the muscles involved in sports practice such as thighs in football players.
-Inate adequate.An extra dose of carbohydrates before and after exercise, such as a small extra snack.
-It is important to have glucose and water pills by hand while the sports activity is performed.If the blood lift in blood descends, it can be resolved quickly and efficiently.
-Cove a backpack or a bag prepared with the medications that are being taken, sanitary emergency numbers, machine to perform the sugar test immediately.It is important to have a diabetes control plan if the boy V from camp outside the home.
-Centate the case to coaches, educators or physical education teachers so that they are alert to possible complications.That observe the child and dose the effort, as well as avoid risk behaviors such as shocks or contact sports.
-Tomar control.It is very important that the child takes control of his illness and medication and learns the management of medication as well as the hygienic-dietary measures that this entails.