In the society there is wildly popular a sentence: ”Diabetes is not a disease, but a life style!”
But the parents do not agree with. By words it indeed sounds hopefully… In the reality this disease is destructive, but the treatment is expensive and complicated.
Diabetes mellitus is an autoimmune disease, when the organism is destroying his own β cells producing insulin in pancreas. The insulin is necessary to organism to be able to use glucose taken by the food. Without insulin the organism can perish, therefore the child with diabetes must have insulin injections, at least 5 – 6 times per day. If children, suffering from diabetes, do not receive an adequate care and training, how to care about their own health, then this disease leaves irreversible complications (vision loss, renal insufficiency, cardiovascular disease) and even disability or death.
It is very important do not allow these early diabetic complications in children.
Diabetes changes completely the family’s life because one of the parents has to take a responsibility about child’s treatment and care. The parents have to learn how, not losing self-control, to help child in any critical situation, caused by the frequent fluctuations of blood sugar in child’s organism (mood swings, unexplained anger, inability to concentrate, drowsiness, abnormal behaviour, sudden sweating, paleness, weakness, slow and slurred speech, hunger, even unconsciousness).
In our country there is one-time training of child and his parents, when the child is diagnosed with diabetes type 1. The training is provided by certified diabetes nurse, but it is insufficient. The trainings have to be regular. This kind of training is provided by Children and Adolescent Diabetes Association of Latvia, creating the training camps "Diabetes School".
Regular measurements of sugar in blood, meals, counting of taken bread units and insulin injections – there are only few of daily conditions to struggle with for those who have the diabetes type 1. For children with such lifestyle practically it’s impossible to participate in the ordinary camps.
The implementation of this project will give the possibility to parents, led by the specialists, to have a training of traditional methods of diabetes care, which is based on three cornerstones - insulin - healthy diet and physical activity. This is a possibility to observe the own child, how changes his behaviour and mood in unusual environment, his contact with other children, in stress or during a physical activity. This is a way to learn to child to be in collective, because a lot of parents are afraid to let a child to go to kindergarten or to Primary School.
The target audience is 14 children with diabetes at age of 4 – 10 years with one of parents or curator.
The project implementation time is 15th to 19th of August, 2016 in Holiday House "Ānes muiža", county of Ozolnieki, parish of Cenu, Latvia.
The co-financing for project implementation from Ziedot.lv - 1500,- EUR.
The parents of children with diabetes will be very grateful to contributors for this project’s support.
The Project is placed online on: 28.04.2016
Project completed 15.08.2016
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