In this chronic disease, the amount of blood sugar cannot be regulated, currently the condition increases and affects the lives of people in psychological and physical aspects.

Gloria Solano has a degree in Nursing, she has a master's degree and a PhD in Nursing Sciences, she is currently responsible for the Department of Extension of the Academic Area of ​​Nursing within the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

Arturo del Castillo Arreola is a doctor in Psychology and part of the teachers of excellence of this maximum house of studies;Together they explained that one of the most important aspects within the quality of life of people with diabetes corresponds to the possibility of having a full sexual life.

However, within the relevant psychological factors in the management of the disease, the study of sexuality and the related disorders of patients with this condition is one of the least attention.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Mental Disorders of 2004, the sexuals are classified in a hearing sexual desire, disorder for sex aversion, excitation disorder in women, disorder in man erection in men, female orgasmic disorder,And masculine, premature ejaculation, trigger and vaginism, to these problems the dysrritmia that means the persistent ability to obtain satisfaction in one of the couples is added due to the difference in the frequency with which the sexual activity is desired.

Sadness as a symptom of depression is presented in many people with diabetes, which affects generating and maintaining an erection, both doctors seek to find if the same occurs with women in the so -called female sexual response that incorporates from the excitation phase, which, whichSometimes women with diabetes have a lower level of sexual appetite or can present pain during sexual intercourse, hence they are currently conducting a study, which has thrown that dysfunction in women is common and there is also a problem inThe excitation and orgasm area, since many of the new statistics say that there is a great problem in the aspect of female sexual satisfaction.

Now it is a real problem when there is a greater incidence in young people who have an active frequent sexual life and that these two circumstances in men and women are having a fundamental impact, hence doctors evaluate what is happening in Hidalgo, detect prevalence: How many women and men with diabetes have that problem, and then find the weight of biological, psychosocial factors, which generate this situation, but the obstacle they face is that people do not talk about their sexual problems, they emphasize that manyWomen are presenting these problems but have not found the right place to be able to express it, now it is both doctors who analyze and help this population.

Erectile dysfunction is the most common problem in men with diabetes, and is a medical condition that is defined as the inability to achieve or maintain an erection for enough time for satisfactory sexual activity.Men with diabetes have two or three times more likely to suffer erectile dysfunction, and usually present erection problems from 10 to 15 years before those who do not present this disease.

In the case of women with type one diabetes, under 40, the prevalence of sexual dysfunction is 27 percent compared to 15 percent in women without the disease;There are no studies that indicate whether women with type one diabetes are more predisposed to presenting sexual dysfunction than type two patients, although several investigationsThey reveal that women show a greater number of sexual problems than men, due to the increase in the prevalence of in the absence of sexual desire in them.

The most common sexual dysfunction in women with diabetes is the decrease in sexual response or excitesexual relationship;However, recent studies indicate that psychological factors seem to be more involved in the origin of female sexual dysfunction than in male, among them is depression that is twice more frequent in women than in men in general population.