Adije continues with the research and development of diabetes

The association already has more than 30 years working to improve the quality of life of people with diabetes

Diabetes is a set of metabolic disorders, whose main characteristic is the presence of high blood glucose concentrations chronic or persistent due to several causes that can be given.According to the World Health Organization, three forms of diabetes are classified: type 1, which is an autoimmue disease that occurs in adolescents and children, type 2, people over 40, and gestational diabetes, which appears in the pregnancy ofThe woman.

In Jerez, in reference to this issue, we find the Jerez Diabetes Association.Adije, as the association is known, has been working for more than 30 years to improve the quality of life of people with diabetes and belongs to the Andalusian Federation of Diabetics (FADA).

In the month of May 2014, a change in both the Board of Directors is produced in the association and in the number and characteristics of the partners that make up the association.For these reasons, it focuses on type 1 diabetes that occurs in children and adolescents with the work of improving the quality of life of the diabetic child, since the majority of new partners are relatives and parents of these young people.But they never put aside type 2 diabetes.

For this, Adije is responsible for children carrying out different activities throughout the year, such as summer camps, sports activities or nutrition and psychology workshops.

The purposes of the Association in the words of its president, Mamen Colón Vázquez, focus on carrying out projects to improve the diabetological education of these families, establish ways of improvement in the psychological coping of the disease and fight for school standardization and prevention of complicationsAcute in educational centers where children spend much of the day.

In the population there is a lot of misinformation in the issue of diabetes and most people do not know how to differentiate between a rise and a decrease in sugar, the latter can lead to the comma to the affected, and how to carry out their respective performance to stop it.

The case of type 1 diabetes, makes parents in schools doing sugar controls to children throughout the morning, since they do not know the protocol they must carry out.Two controls are carried out on the school day two hours after breakfast, at 11, and the snack of recreation, at 13. This makes the father must be absent in his job and produce disorders.

This is where one of Adije's work is located, which has sought by all possible means that teachers collaborate and learn the protocol they must carry out to treat the child in these cases of diabetes."The teachers have collaborated a lot and learned to carry out control over the child's diabetes, being these more integrated," said Mamen.

Adije belongs to the Zero Diabetes Movement (DT0), which is a movement of parents of children and adults with diabetes whose objective is the monitoring and financing of a real and lasting investigation.DT0 seeks how to help scientists who are investigating the issue of diabetes with the intention that the person who suffers it can have a full life.

This research is beyond political and pharmaceutical reach, so the zero diabetes movement needs to raise money through quotas, donations or different activities.Adije performs musicals, soccer or paddle championships to get some money and use a part to donate it to the DT0 movement and the other to improve the situation of the association in the Jerez region, since it cannot only be sustained with the quotas ofIts partners.

One of the new initiatives thatThey are carrying out now is the creation of a charity calendar, which has the face of 12 celebrities from Jerez, among which is Antonio El Pipa or Dani Pendín, along with children and young people from the association.This type of project had not been possible without the help of the 32 sponsoring companies, including Lacaixa, Q Innovate, Medical Orthopedics Jerez and Gonzalez Byass.The calendar goes on sale on the 12th of this month and can be purchased at the headquarters of Adije on Hansario Street No. 17 on Mondays, Wednesday and Friday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.