Type 1 diabetes is the usual type in childhood and can't be prevented. It is idiopathic but scientists think it has something to do with genes. Type 1 diabetes isn't contagious. And eating too much sugar doesn't cause type 1 diabetes. There's no reliable way to predict who will get type 1 diabetes, but blood tests can find early signs of it.
Type 2 diabetes can sometimes be prevented. Excessive weight gain, obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle are all things that put a person at risk for type 2 diabetes, which can be changed.
Dear Catia Cillóniz
Diabetes in childhood is usually type-1 diabetes. Usually autoimmunity ans certain infective etiologies are blamed for this but treatment wise i guess insulin has stayed the mainstay.
However, pancreatic transplant may provide a better option
These kids must guided professionally how to use insulin and how to avoid hypoglycemic episodes
With optimal management,they can live a normal life
Regards
These are some novel concepts being worked upon to address type-1 diabetes:
Article Modulation of Type 1 Diabetes Risk by the Intestinal Microbiome
Article Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes: Current and Future Strategies
Article Artificial Pancreas or Novel Beta-Cell Replacement Therapies...
Hopefully, the disease will be better dealt in coming times.
Regards
Type 1 diabetes is the usual type in childhood and can't be prevented. It is idiopathic but scientists think it has something to do with genes. Type 1 diabetes isn't contagious. And eating too much sugar doesn't cause type 1 diabetes. There's no reliable way to predict who will get type 1 diabetes, but blood tests can find early signs of it.
Type 2 diabetes can sometimes be prevented. Excessive weight gain, obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle are all things that put a person at risk for type 2 diabetes, which can be changed.
Dear Rama I. Ali
Hereditary component is more associated with type-2 diabetes mellitus (80-90%) than with type-1 diabetes (40-50%)
Regards
Please have a look at these useful RG links.
Article Preventing Childhood Diabetes: The Need for Public Health Intervention
Article Prevention of diabetes in overweight/obese children through ...
Article Prevention and treatment of diabetes in children
Type 2 diabetes in children is a chronic disease that affects the way your child's body processes sugar (glucose). ... Type 2 diabetes is more commonly associated with adults. In fact, it used to be called adult-onset diabetes. But type 2 diabetes in children is on the rise, fueled largely by the obesity epidemic.
please check the link
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabetes-in-children/symptoms-causes/syc-20355318
Type 2 Diabetes in Childhood is rapidly increasing. We are in the phase where intervention can change the course of this 'epidemic'
Simple measures like:
Limiting daily calories
Limiting screen time
Banning soda drinks
Limiting fatty fast foods
Increasing exercise
Better regulation and policing of fast food menus
Hoping for a magic bullet drug, that invariably will be expensive and inaccessible to most, is not the primary focus.
Social interventions, as above are best. But many societies have a social lethargy, when it comes to action.
We need a change in mindset....
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