Because recognizing the symptoms of the disease in time is essential, campañas like the one we see for an early diagnosis of childhood diabetes.
The campaign, promoted worldwide, aims to avoid diabetic cetoacidosis (CAD), a complication of type 1 diabetes mellitus (chronic diabetes) that is identified in between 35 and 40 percent of diabetic children under 4 years.
The problem is that at that age the initial symptoms of diabetes, which are drinking and urinating a lot, often go completely unnoticed.
Diabetic ketoacidosis appears when the body has elevated glucose levels that the body does not metabolize as a source of energy (because there is no insulin or is insufficient) and instead uses fats.
High glucose levels can cause the child to urinate frequently, causing a constant need to drink fluids. Therefore, urinating and drinking too much are usually the first symptom for which the child goes to the doctor and from there the diabetes is detected.
Recall that type 1 diabetes is one of the most frequent chronic diseases in childhood and that more and more children under 5 are diagnosed.
It is considered as one of the childhood epidemics today and although it obviously has genetic causes, environmental factors are also influencing its proliferation.
For early detection it is very important to be attentive to the first symptoms such as drinking and urinating excessively, in addition to many other symptoms of diabetes in children that we have already listed as starting to wet the bed when it no longer did so, weight loss no reason, excessive hunger, irritability, weakness, bad breath and nausea.
They can be confusing symptoms in a child, but when in doubt it is better to prevent and perform glucose tests to confirm or rule out the disease.
