Who serves diabetic minors in schools?

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Between books and notebooks, Elena leads to the Sacred Heart of Madrid an insulin meter that allows her to keep her glucose levels controlled.It looks like a pen, but it is not.He is 3 years old, it is diabetic and at that age hormones complicate things a lot.There are more sugar fluctuations and you have to be careful, and Elena is not old enough to control the glucose alone and act accordingly.It needs an adult who interprets what it means that in that kind of pen puts an 8 and not a 60. Of that number it will depend with 100 grams of bread or with 200. That is why Irene, Elena's mother, and all parentsOf the 30,000 diabetic children in Spain, they demand from the Ministry of Health and Education that cover the existing legal vacuum on who should take care of diabetic children while they are in school and are not self -sufficient for the self -control of the disease.

The patient association platform with chronic non -disabled diseases thanks the Community of Madrid that has taken into account its proposal to establish teachers about diabetes and a reference health center for schools that have diabetic children in their classrooms.They trust that, shortly, the proposal extends to all chronic diseases that affect school -age children."They have heard us. It is a good first step for a possible future understanding," the parents are glad.They applaud the initiative because they trust that soon they will not have to leave their jobs to go to school to manage their children several times during the same day.They are excited thinking that a not too distant day will no longer have to be in permanent concern for not knowing if teachers and school staff will know how to act in case of emergency.The platform presented a project to the councils involved in which the possibility of establishing a document was considered where teachers are submitted if they act in case of emergency.In the long term, the objective is to provide health personnel in schools.But there is still too much to do.

Too many parents say that they have had too many problems for schools to accept to take care of the glucagon, the necessary and basic medication in case the child suffers hypoglycemia.Education says that teachers are not health, and cannot take responsibility for what could happen in case of error.Elena is an exception.The school where he studies has agreed to save the glucagon in a fridge and has promised to use it if necessary.Although his mother, like all parents of diabetic children, leaves with his heart in a fist and the operating phone when his little one crosses the threshold of the school."A simple candy that can give him another child at recess to shoot his sugar."They are too small to understand danger.They are simply children.

Ainara is 7 years old and diagnosed diabetes five years ago.His mother has spent four courses going to school at 9, at 12 noon to measure his daughter's glucose."Ainara does not enter the three special needs that Education reserve in each educational center."According to education, diabetics do not meet the requirements to meet these places.Parents complain that the councils do not give any solution.And teachers claim to know more about the disease to properly attend students with this disorder.

A disease put under the table

Angeles Méndez is a teacherof the Jaime Vera Institute of Madrid.Calls diabetes the masked disease."It is involved under the table and you have to get it out of there."According to Méndez, the solution is simply an organization problem."Education should raise an action protocol. Have a map of diabetic children in Spain, locate and provide them with the resources that their disease claims."Each teacher should take it as part of their responsibility, not as an obligation."Right now, teachers' performance is totally voluntary. It is the administration that should normalize a situation that is rare."

From day 1 when the child is qualified as a diabetic, we must follow too exhaustive control of his glycemia.And you can't jump.The child depends on an adult until he has sufficient capacity to interpret the test result.Its pancreas loses the ability to produce insulin hormone because its immune system attacks and destroyed the cells responsible for manufacturing it.They will never do it again.Since then, they are injected at least three times a day and his life and that of his family changes forever.It is the same parents who have explained to the teachers how they should act in case of emergency.In case of hypoglycemia, five minutes are enough for irreparable damage.They know that an ambulance would not arrive on time.That is why there must be someone in the center to act if necessary.

Alicia, Martina's mother, a diabetic girl since the age of 2, feels tremendous anguish during the hours that the girl spends at school."If a child is in a wheelchair, he has no problem going to school, but my daughter, who depends totally on an adult, is totally helpless."The problem is when an insulin reaction and the level of low blood sugar appear.It appears quickly.Cold sweating, dizziness, palpitations, tremors and difficult vision.It may be because food has been taken late, for exercising more than usual, not eating enough or having put too much insulin.You have to give sugary fluids or foods and not supply insulin at that time.You have to inject glucagon if you lose knowledge and not give liquids.Notify the doctor.

Hyperglycemia appears slowly (hours), and occurs by excess blood sugar.Symptoms are that thirst increases and urinates more frequently.You have to take many liquids to avoid dehydration, eat normally but avoid foods rich in sugars or starches that can further raise blood glucose.Nor should you forget to call the doctor.

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Totally agree with those mothers.Both in health and education, the ball is thrown and no one fills "the legal vacuum" of diabetes in school.In Extremadura last year, the famous action protocol that was being prepared between both councils was published in the newspapers.A year has passed and they have not yet agreed on whether it is convenient or not having sugary juices in schools (for the issue of childhood obesity and all that) or who pays the fridge to preserve the glucagon ...:!::?:.
I remember a few words from Dr. Arroyo in this regard, which said that heaven and earth stirred so that a Muslim student went to class with veil, but as for children with diabetes, which in case of severe hypoglycemia can lose to life,No one wants to know anything.

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I feel totally identified with those mothers .... Go, that I have not spent anguish when I left my daughter in the school, every time the phone sounded it was a shock, and the dependence of my father who was going to measure him, and.... ufff, how long and desperate days, months, years ...
I hope and wish with all my soul that at once begin to recognize the dependence of our children, the vital dependence, which we are not talking about any nonsense.

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