They have a survey that indicates that 30% of those affected reduce the treatment on their own.The Federation of Spanish Diabetics (FEDE) will begin next week a round of contacts with the political parties that make up the parliamentary arch to ask them to promote a law capable of guaranteeing the correct attention of children affected by this disease in the school, where theChildren under 12 are currently "big problems."
As the president of Fede, Andoni Lorenzo, many parents of diabetic children are forced to reduce their workday or even stop working, because in schools lack information about the treatment that schoolchildren must receivewith diabetes, so those affected request a rule that ensures training on this aspect in school.
"We want a law that guarantees the attention of diabetics at school," said Lorenzo, who also explained that Fede will take advantage of meetings with parliamentary groups to also participate in the labor discrimination suffered by diabetics, to whom it is not allowed to carry outEven access evidence such as existing ones in police or firefighters.
The president of the Spanish Diabetics Federation made this announcement after the presentation of a last survey to a total of 482 patients between the months of April and May of this year to know what their main demands and needs are not covered.
The work, carried out with the support of the healthy pharmacist, indicates, among other conclusions, that 30% of the diabetics decrease on their own, that is, without medical authorization, the dose of treatment prescribed by the doctor.
Along the same lines, the survey shows that 70% of patients with type II diabetes (the one that appears in adulthood associated with problems such as obesity) breached the treatment, a percentage that in the case of type I(The one that manifests in childhood and usually requires insulin) is 40%.
Both the voluntary decrease in the dose and the breach or lack of adhesion to treatment is due, in many occasions, to the fear that patients have hypoglycemia, as explained in the press conference María Jesús Alsar, medical director of SanofiIberia.
At this point, the study indicates that 55.4% of type II diabetics do not correctly identify a hypoglycemia process, something that in the case of type I patients occurs only in 20%.
As for the main needs that the diabetes patients say, the survey evidence that they are psychological support, in the case of type I, which demands it more 22%, and more instructions to prevent future problems related tothe disease, in the type II.
