Can children with congenital hyperinsulinemia be cured?

  Although congenital hyperinsulinemia is a rare disease, foreign research on congenital hyperinsulinemia has a history of decades and has made great progress.  1, congenital hyperinsulinemia is a treatable disease that can survive with the disease for many years if it is diagnosed and treated in time. Parents should build up confidence. When the child is diagnosed, they should take the child to a large hospital as soon as possible so that the child can receive timely, correct and effective treatment.  2. Congenital hyperinsulinemia has a mature and scientific diagnosis and treatment process. After diagnosis, the child should be treated with diazoxide in the first instance. Depending on whether the child is effective with diazoxide, the next treatment plan will be decided, rather than directly proceeding to surgery or abandoning the treatment.  3. The child should be tested for genes related to congenital hyperinsulinemia as soon as possible. It is important to identify the real cause of the disease in the child. This is an important guideline for the development of the correct treatment plan, prognosis of the child, and eugenics.  4. As a rare disease, this disease is difficult for the majority of primary care doctors to understand and recognize. Therefore, the treatment advice given to you by primary care doctors is likely to be incomplete and limited.  5. Giving up does not solve all problems. Why does the child have the disease? Will the child respond effectively to the medication? Does it really need surgical treatment? Will the child’s disease also go into remission on its own? If another child is born, what can be done to avoid having another child with this condition? ……. With the abandonment of the child’s treatment, it will be difficult to find answers to all the questions.  Therefore, parents should not give up lightly, but should establish the determination to overcome the disease together with the affected child, because the parents’ attitude and the physician’s advice will determine the final fate of the affected child. And it is an urgent issue to raise the awareness of pediatric and endocrinologists and parents about this disease through various publicity channels.