Diabetes can affect adolescents’ sexual maturity
Diabetes can have serious implications for adolescents who suffer, because if not controlled during this stage, they risk among others, failure to achieve proper sexual maturation.
The Institute for Diabetes Prevention and Education in Peru, warned that teens who do not control diabetes are not only at the risk of being small in stature, but also risk failing to achieve adequate maturity and keep the voice and body of a pubescent.
At this stage of life is at best should beware, advises Dr. Olga Nunez, of the Institute. However, in this period is usually when the children prefer to do what their contemporaries are as consuming junk food and go to bars or cafes.
“When you are diabetic and adolescents at the same time, we are talking about a stage because these kids face challenges and emotional changes have to control your blood sugar in the blood,” she says.
Therefore, parents must be vigilant that their children learn to have fun, while taking into account that they can not eat and drink the beverages the same amount than any of his friends.
This does not mean they have to feel restricted. Teens with diabetes can and should take an active social life, so we recommend you ask the support of a nutritionist who will develop a varied diet and not cutting those calories that are necessary for growth.
“Drinking alcohol, contrary to popular belief, you can lower sugar levels,” said Nunez. Adolescents with fresh blood can have a healthy life if they get involved in your treatment, take exercise, get a proper dose of insulin and thoroughly monitor their blood sugar with a glucometer.
Remember that diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by increased glucose. The food we eat are converted to it in the digestive tract and from there go through the bloodstream, then, in the pancreas release the hormone insulin. This disease has two types: I and II. The first occurs at any stage of life, the second appears after 40 years of age.
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