Strategies for Diabetic Adolescents

According to the definition of the World Health Organization, the age of puberty is 10 to 19 years old. In these fragile times there are pressure from buddies, bullying, and the desire to surround this particular group. This makes it more difficult for adolescents to develop type 1 diabetes. Diabetes mellitus means checking blood sugar levels regularly, managing your diet and injecting insulin as needed. The aim of this paper is to explore the strategies that nurses can use to promote self care management for adolescent type 1 diabetes such as patients, parents, educators, technology, support groups, school nurses etc.

African-American children and young people with diabetes may face special challenges. Clinicians should recognize that all diabetes that occurs in childhood or adolescence is not type 1 diabetes. As the incidence of obesity increases, the incidence of type 2 diabetes increases in this age group. Differential diagnosis of diabetes in children or adolescents includes typical type 1 diabetes, young adult diabetes (MODY), and typical type 2 diabetes. Diabetes and atypical diabetes seen in African American.

Because of the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents in the United States, other risk factors for type 2 diabetes in these age groups are becoming clearer. In this article I will describe cases of young teenagers with multiple risk factors for type 2 diabetes. The problems associated with the diagnosis and classification of diabetes in many young patients, as well as the importance of initiating a treatment that enables rapid blood glucose control are explored. As a disappointing result of current obesity epidemics in children and adolescents, physicians can be expected to experience an increase in young patients with signs and symptoms associated with hyperglycemia and related persons that are logically not initially controlled Late diabetes

African Americans, adolescents and children are at high risk of developing insulin resistance and serious type 2 diabetes, with a high prevalence. African-American diabetic patients do not receive lower quality care and are not well controlled, so the incidence of complications is higher than that of white diabetic patients. Some African-American diabetic patients present atypical symptoms of type 1 diabetes, but the subsequent clinical course is typical type 2 diabetes. Lack of evidence-based medication treatment data for African-American diabetic patients However, the primary care of African-American diabetic patients is greatly aided by a structured disease management program. Using case-controlled nurses, diabetes educators and other healthcare professionals is particularly effective at improving glycemic control in the African-American diabetes community.