Children with diabetes: What do you face in the school environment?

Half of children of children with school -age diabetes have had to somehow modify their work activity to be able to serve their child properly, according to the “study on children with children's age diabetes”, carried out by theDiabetes Foundation.

This disease implies a change in lifestyle and the implementation of special care that demands more time and knowledge by their closest environment (parents or other relatives and teachers), because, in some cases, these children must carryEvery day to school the insulin they need.

The investigation, based on the surveys conducted to 880 mothers and fathers of children with diabetes between 3 and 16, shows a positive side in the way of perceiving this disease in society, because in schools there is more integration and less rejection towardsChildren's patients with diabetes: 84% of cases have been the children themselves who have announced their classmates suffering from diabetes and practicing totality does sports with their peers.

And if this recent study is compared with other data less than ten years ago, it is estimated that the situation has improved gradually in some aspects such as sports practice in schools.

How to achieve the child's school integration with diabetes?

The Diabetes Foundation summarizes it in three points:

1.- All public education system centers should have sufficiently updated information and training to facilitate the child a healthy lifestyle and a safe environment.

2.- Have duly prepared professionals in all schools where there are children with diabetes, so that they can attend them and face possible emergencies.

3.- Adequate coordination between health centers and schools to offer teachers support for the presence of possible complications.

However, it is also noted that in the age group of children under 6 years of age 27% of the parents had found more problems in the school, while 16% claimed to have varied the pattern of glycemia or insulin controls byLack of collaboration in the school.

"Parents consider it necessary to train teachers and the rest of the staff of the educational centers to solve everyday situations, as well as the existence of nursing personnel in each school," says psychologist Iñaki Lorente, expert in diabetes and patron of the Foundation for the Foundation forDiabetes.

In addition, 70% of parents claimed that schools had a healthcare professional to be able to attend and control the blood glucose levels of these children and inject insulin, 5% had had to change their school son and 4% denounced that the child had not been admitted in the center.

“It is necessary to underline that, although the teachers, as well as their classmates know that these children have diabetes, it is still necessary to increase information and training to teachers to facilitate the child a healthy lifestyle and a safe environment and especially to know howManage it in schools in case of emergency, "concludes Marina Beléndez, a professor at the University of Alicante, in addition to co -author of this work.

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