DIABETES & NUTRITION

Public Health or Public Health Nutrition



Public Health or Public Health Nutrition

Introduction

It is very helpful for a patient to have an organize set of intervention by people closely related such as friends and family. It is essential to find someone who can guide in providing professional help in assisting a traumatic event or other severe problem. Interventions can assist patients in overcoming traumatic events usually involving addictions or diseases, which are hard to fight alone.

This research paper will highlight the proof base for systemic observation on adolescents problems related to diabetes and nutrition education. The discussion will relate to family-based interventions, which are useful in quantifiable cases for overcoming the subsequent traumatic problems like recurring abdominal pain, enuresis, and diabetes in children (Chiarelli, et.al, 2005, pp. 22).

Problem Statement and Research Question

The growing disease of diabetes in adolescents is a major concern for parents and children in Saudi Arabia. The major problem is the lack of awareness and education regarding diabetes in children and the required nutritional diet, which causes a flaw in support of intervention and later in health. Such flaws need subsequent attention to help eliminate distress to parents and children by providing proper diabetes and nutrition education.

Significance of the Study

The relative importance of this study is that organized ways of knowledge relating to nutritional diet for diabetic children can be achieved, providing help to parents especially to mothers, helping them treat and manage diabetes in children.

Literature Review

As diabetes is a growing concern for both parents and young children who suffer from the disease of diabetes, many researches are conducted in this regard to provide assistance for these affected children and parents. These studies and researches provide guidance and information to parents on how to deal with their children suffering from diabetes.

Diabetes

It is important to understand what diabetes is, the metabolic disease in which an individual carries increased level of sugar in blood. This may be due to the lack of insulin in the body or simply because the cells of insulin in the body are not responding. The increased level of sugar in blood produces symptoms of increased thirst, increased huger and frequent urination.

Diabetes mellitus are mainly of three types, type 1 DM, type 2 DM and gestational diabetes. Type 1 DM requires injection of insulin on regular basis, where body fails to produce insulin. Type 2 DM involves the deficiency in insulin, where the cells fail to identify insulin properly in the body. The third type is gestational diabetes, where pregnant women carry increased level of glucose in the blood during pregnancy.

Diabetes in adolescents is caused due to negligible amount of insulin in the body because of the inability of pancreas to produce. The most common form of diabetes in children is the type 1 DM, it is an autoimmune disease, where the body' tissues are being attacked by the body's immune system.

Diabetes & Nutrition

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