"In Venezuela there is no insulin or reactive strips, and when they arrive they are increasingGuerrero, sports-recreational activity organized by the Civil Association Blue Guerreros.
The appointment served to gather 100 children with the disease and their parents, in order to sensitize them about the best way to address their condition, explained Martha Palma Troconis, general coordinator of the association, founded a year ago by a group of mothers of children of childrenWith type 1 diabetes, in an effort to make the disease visible.
"Our goal is to empower children about the disease, give them the information they need so that they are not afraid of facing this condition and rather feel pride and can live with dignity," he said.
Palma said that most of the more than 200 recorded in the association are treated in J. M. de los Ríos, a hospital in which the largest number of children with type 1 diabetes are controlled in the country, such as Royer Pallares, 8 years old fromAge, emergency diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in March 2016, due to constant nasal bleeding, said his mother, Yolanda Díaz, who lives in the Tomuso sector, in Santa Teresa del Tuy, Miranda state.
Díaz denounced the difficulties he has faced since 2014, because, although they have the doses of insulin in the hospital, many times it is impossible;In addition to the impossibility of maintaining the nutritional regime.
“Sometimes it is difficult to meet the diet, I cannot always give the snack, he must eat six times a day, for portions, and not all of them can give them.Injectors and strips have not been achieved in Venezuela for three years, ”he said.
Type 1 diabetes can be addressed from different areas, but treatment is fundamental - which cannot be interrupted and is for life - and food warned, María Gabriela Nery, a psychologist diagnosed with diabetes since the age of 17, and regular collaborator ofThe association through advice.
"At present, due to scientific advances, the disease is completely controllable, to the point that it does not limit the variety of the diet, although the amounts, but in Venezuela the access to the most innovative medications is limited," he warned.
Bernard Villegas, care nurse at the J. M. de los Ríos Children's Hospital, revealed that the Government has decreased the frequency of treatment deliveries through the endocrine-methabolic program, and only distributes the insulin known as NPH, one of the first medications inThis type that were created, whose side effects were corrected in others of more recent invention.
Children from 6 years of age participated in the activity.Everyone was given useful information in order to make the condition, explained Melissa Cipriani, a member of the association: "In each station, medical staff gave children's practical information to children who should receive up to three daily doses of insulin".
