In the last 20 years there have been great advances in the treatment of diabetes that has allowed better control to those who suffer from this disease, said the professor of the Monterrey Technological Medicine School, Óscar Flores Caloca.
He said that excess thirst, hunger or weight loss are symptoms of diabetes, a condition that increases in children and young people, and that if it is not treated with time it can have serious consequences.
Fortunately, he stressed, "there are many devices to apply insulin, such as micro infuses or insulin pumps, which are devices that apply insulin through an infusion."
"There are glucose sensors without having to prick your finger, you put on a patch and measure your sugar," he said.
The specialist indicated that in the case of type 2 diabetes, a good food, exercise and avoiding sedentary lifestyle are ways of preventing it, and in people prone to suffer from genetics, it will help them avoid it at an early age.
Type 1 diabetes emphasized, it cannot be prevented since there is no certain factor by which insulin does not occur in the body.
Flores Caloca warned that this problem occurs when glucose levels in the body increase, and that it is the direct cause of the death of more than one million people in the world a year.
It is expected that by 2030 it will be the seventh cause of deaths globally, he said.
He pointed out that despite this increase, technological advances, timely control and health care can allow diabetic people to live well and for many years.
"People with diabetes have a very good quality of life, live almost practically the years of a person who has no diabetes," he said.
He indicated that diabetics "currently the only thing that is not allowed to work is to handle commercial airplanes and drive trailers in certain states of the American Union."
