Diabetes has no age – it the disease irrespective of type can develop both at the person elderly, and at the baby. Because of similarity of the first signs of the desease to symptoms of other illnesses, usual overfatigue and a lack of vitamins the development of diabetes quite often long remains unnoticed. Sometimes the child is hospitalized already in a serious condition, and only then the exact diagnosis becomes known.
Symptoms of diabetes
The expressiveness of the first symptoms of diabetes depends on disease type. Insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes develops quickly – in one or two months the insignificant violations of health can pass into a diabetic coma, at babies this term is reduced to 2-3 weeks.
Insulinonezavisimy type 2 diabetes long time can not prove in any way, from the beginning of a disease before diagnosis there pass months, and sometimes and years. The special attention is required by children at the age of 5-8 years and teenagers from the beginning of the period of puberty are the periods of active growth, then most often the disease declares itself.
The following symptoms have to guard parents: - strong thirst; - inexplicable weight reduction; - urination increase; - weakness, fatigue, apathy; - the increased thirst for sweet food; - deterioration in health approximately in an hour after a meal. At diabetes the child constantly asks to drink even if houses and on the street not hot. Patients often urinate including at night. Loss of weight is explained by inability of an organism to process the arriving glucose due to the lack of insulin – cages do not receive food, the child loses weight, despite the increased appetite. Such signs as dryness and peeling of skin, deterioration in sight, nausea are also frequent, at teenage girls the menstrual cycle can be broken. Type 2 diabetes is often shown by decrease in immunity: children easily are infected with viral infections, small wounds and cuts badly heal, purulent infections of skin are frequent (furunkulez, a piodermiya).
What to pay attention to?
Children with the burdened heredity enter into risk group and also those who had big weight at the birth (more than 4.5 kilograms), have other metabolic disorders or are subject to frequent infectious diseases. Quite often diabetes develops at the children receiving intensive physical activities, for example, young athletes whose mode of trainings does not correspond to age. The beginning of a disease can provoke the postponed stress – it can be both a serious nervous shock, and a viral infection. If the child had an acetone smell from a mouth, such signs as thirst amplified and the speeded-up urination is a reason for the emergency hospitalization. The breath smelling of acetone – the first symptom of ketoacidosis, a terrible pathological state, without treatment within several hours (sometimes – days) developing into a diabetic coma. Also initial stage of ketoacidosis can be suspected if feels sick the child, he complains of weakness, belly-aches, at the general expressed pallor on cheekbones the bright flush is noticeable.