Camp for children with ADT diabetes

"You feel like you're dizzy and your eyes hurt.""You have to click and it hurts a little sometimes.""With the workshop I learn to eat things without sugar that I have not discovered."

These are some of the phrases that were heard from the experiences of the participants in the Camp for Children with Diabetes last week in the interview conducted to the Health Psychologist and "Coach" Food Elsa Espinosa in the program of El Día Televisión "one dayFurther".

Although not all children who point to this experience have diabetes, they are the priority of this camp located in the municipality of El Rosario and managed by the Cabildo de Tenerife.From the Tenerife Diabetes Association, they explain that the work of this group seeks to "teach to face different situations to handle diabetes."

A family meal, a children's birthday, can be a problem without the necessary structures.The key, explains the expert, "is in the awareness and information of the environment. Diabetes is not any food allergy and you have to control the amount of hydrates we are consuming. Having this controlled work, the child can take soda without sugar andTake its cake, but the environment has to be informed. "

The measure of the degree of concern and ability to manage this circumstance, reveals Espinosa, is not located in the child, but in the adults that surround it."Children," he says, "value diabetes through the gaze of adults."So to facilitate a mentally healthy life for children with diabetes "the school environment must be sensitized, from the kitchen to dining caregivers."

In the case of type 1 diabetes, the expert reports, "you have to help fit sudden news that comes many times with what they call a debut and requires immediate treatment."

In this case for the little ones, "again the concern is the environment, so in the camp we give opportunities to express themselves, talk about everything that worries them ...".

Interestingly, it is not to live a hypoglycemia, or a dizziness, "but how others respond when they get like that. There are parents who get too distressed and transmit it, or ask the child for all the information what they did to be like this without their son withoutIt has still recovered. "

With type 2 diabetes, linked to spiny life habits, he points out that "the key in this case of adult behavior is the example. Do not consume pastry or sugary drinks and change them for tasty but healthy options will avoid family problems."It seems simple but "Canary Islands has this pending subject. We are at the head of childhood obesity. Eating with poor quality can degenerate into diabetes."

There are still deserted places for this healthy camp, which has been working for several summers.For more information, the ADT has facilitated a telephone number (922253906) and an email address: worksocial@diabenetenteife.org.

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