Diabetes Treatment
How To Care For Juvenile Diabetes Patient At Home?
The treatment given to the child at the
doctor's chamber has medicinal as well as psychological value. The child
trusts the immaculately dressed man, with stethoscope dangling on his
neck. The child has read books and seen it on TV that such doctors
virtually bring back the patient from the jaws of death.
But the reality is different. Juvenile diabetes is a peculiar
disease. It is not like, one day stomach ache, two days toothache or
three days headache. The modern child is educated enough to understand
what diabetes is about. It is aware of the serious implications of the
disease. Naturally it would be the shocking news for the parents that
their young child has diabetes. But the reality has to be faced boldly
by both the parents and the child. For winning such cases, 80% of the
treatment is psychological where only 20% is the actual medication.
Remember,
food is responsible for every type of disease and food takes
responsibility for curing every type of disease. This statement may look
contradictory, but it is nothing but the truth. We need to take right
food at the right time. The number one rule for diabetic children is
that they need to eat healthily. And this diet education needs to be
given to the children from the parents as a part of the home discipline.
Your
love to the child need not be expressed through fulfilling its demand
for wrong types of food. The various types of junk foods with more and
more carbohydrates, sugarcoated and cream items should be avoided at all
the cost. Give your child the appropriate food items such as seasonal
fruits and vegetables, containing adequate fiber.
In initial insulin program that is provided to the children with
diabetes is short term acting Hymalog NPH and long terms acting Humalin
N.
Your child must not feel that its freedom to
eat what it wanted is curbed totally. You need to fix the eating
time-table in such a way that all the harmful items are strictly
avoided, and with the addition of new items that would be liked by the
child.
Take the child for a morning or evening walk. This will
add to the bonds of affection. It is good for diabetes as walking helps
the activity of metabolism. Similarly the child needs to be taught some
simple physical exercises that are both fun and of immense benefit in
the actual treatment of diabetes.
Therefore “love plus discipline
in diet” is the major part of care and treatment for juvenile diabetes.