Treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children requires insulin therapy, exercise therapy, diet therapy and blood glucose monitoring.
1. Insulin therapy: children with type 1 diabetes are mostly suffering from absolute insulin deficiency, and they need to supplement insulin through exogenous insulin drugs to stabilize their blood glucose, and they need to insist on insulin injection.
2. Exercise therapy: children need to participate in appropriate sports to promote the body’s metabolism, in order to maintain the body’s blood glucose level in the normal range.
3. Diet therapy: It is necessary to pay attention to keep blood glucose stable and avoid excessive fluctuation of blood glucose, it is recommended to avoid high sugar diet and control the total calorie intake of each meal.
4. Blood glucose monitoring: Parents need to monitor the blood glucose of their children on a regular basis, and cooperate with the doctor to find a treatment method to control the stability of blood glucose, which will help to delay the complications.
In addition, type 1 diabetes is a disease that may require lifelong treatment and has a tendency towards spontaneous ketosis, so it is important for parents to actively manage their children’s blood glucose.