Diabetes in adolescence

• April 25, 2024

Adolescence can be a challenge for any girl or boy, as she faces sexual changes and emotional, this stage can be especially hard for a Teen with diabetes , disease that millions of children suffer in the world.

Even those teenagers who lived well with their disease during childhood they may feel the desire to lead a "normal" life, without medicines or limitations and without having to take care of themselves in any special way. It is a completely normal reaction. Some adolescents who have learned to control their illness feel so healthy and strong that they come to question whether they need to continue with the disease. treatment. Unfortunately, stopping treatment can have disastrous consequences.

They can become rebellious and refuse to obey. They can also deny the disease, or manifest an increasingly aggressive behavior as a reaction to the stress that causes them to control the diabetes , in a moment of his life that in itself is a difficult challenge to face.

When a person has to live with a chronic illness, sometimes it can be difficult to love their body. It can help you a lot to express your frustration or his sadness to someone understanding. At times like these, it is important that you think about how others can help you and ask for help and express what you would like them to do for you.

The researchers believe that the hormone of the growth produced during adolescence to stimulate the bone growth and muscle can also act as an agent anti-insulin The sugar levels in blood they become more difficult to control, resulting in levels that range between too high and too low.

Adolescents with diabetes manifest the following personality characteristics

· Difficulty assume responsibilities

· Tendency to depression

· Increase in anxiety

·         Feeling to be different

· A lot of interest in eat

· Difficulties to commit to the task

· Feeling of loneliness

Those adolescents who do not control the diabetes not only run the risk of staying small in stature, but also risk not achieving adequate sexual maturity and stay with the voice and body of a pubic.

Adapt to living with a chronic disease it demands time, patience, support - and the desire to learn and participate in the care of one's own health. People who have to face unexpected challenges often discover in them a capacity for adaptation and resistance that they did not previously imagine they could have. Many say they learn more about themselves by having to face these challenges, and feel that they grow as people and develop inner strength and self-awareness to a much greater extent than if they had not faced such challenges.

People who suffer from chronic diseases discover that, when they take an active role in their health care, they learn to understand and value their strengths - and adapt to the weak - as they have never done before.