How much do you know about diabetes in children?

  The Lancet published a study showing that the number of obese children and adolescents worldwide reached 124 million in 2016, an increase of more than 10 times the number in 1975 (11 million). The rise in the number of obese young children has accelerated in some parts of Asia.  According to CNN, childhood obesity is likely to continue into adulthood, with the attendant numerous health problems, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers.  The incidence of diabetes in children has increased rapidly in recent years, but because of its insidious onset, type 2 diabetes is often difficult to detect early and can only be diagnosed with blood glucose screening; while type 1 diabetes has a rapid onset, with nearly 1/3 of children waiting until they are in a coma with ketoacidosis before they first go to the hospital, making childhood diabetes “increasingly prevalent.  In recent years, we can find more and more fat children around us, and it is these obesity factors that are causing more and more children and adolescents to develop diabetes. In fact, with the improvement of people’s living standards, diabetes has become one of the common chronic diseases that threaten children and adolescents, seriously increasing the burden on society and families, and they face the difficult problem of longer disease duration and earlier complications compared to middle-aged and elderly people.  It has been reported that the detection rate of obesity among children and adolescents in China reaches 18.46% (male) and 9.18% (female), and the detection rate of obesity among children and adolescents in large cities even approaches or exceeds that of developed countries, while these obese children are the high-risk group for diabetes.  High-risk factors causing obesity in children and adolescents include: traditional eating habits, such as gorging on food and drink, emphasizing meat and vegetables, forced persuasion, and the gradual popularity of Western food: such as high-heat, high-fat fast food, desserts, fried potatoes, drinks, etc. The survey shows that 30% of students like to eat fast food, which taste good but contain excessive sugar, saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids, and have very little dietary fiber. Children grow up with excessive academic pressure, and the little free time they have is for computers and TV, so it makes children spend less time on physical activity, too much time sitting still, and not getting enough physical exercise.  These poor eating habits accelerate the obesity of children and adolescents and increase their chances of developing diabetes.  How can you tell if a child has diabetes? There are several symptoms: manifestation of polyuria, frequent urination, some older children, manifestation of bedwetting has been many years not bedwetting, now bedwetting and recurring; food consumption increased greatly, hunger increased, previously do not eat things also used to fill hunger; often thirsty, sometimes also have to get up at night to drink water; easily tired, like to stay at home and refuse to go out; weight plummeting; blurred vision; wounds more difficult to heal, especially the wound repeatedly infected, oozing, and The wound does not heal for a long time.  When your child has these conditions, parents should pay extra attention and go to the hospital as soon as possible to check and confirm!