Pediatric Diabetes Management: Nursing Interventions and Family Support

Abstract

Worldwide healthcare professionals together with researchers demonstrate growing concern about pediatric diabetes due to its significantly increasing prevalence rates. The recent decades have brought about a significant rise in new diagnoses of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in children even though Type 1 diabetes continues to be the dominant form in pediatric populations. Medical statistics demonstrate that diabetes affects one child out of 400 in adolescent populations although ethnic differences emerge in different geographic areas. Treatments for pediatric patients with diabetes rely on a proper recognition of their diagnosis type. A person with Type 1 diabetes who experiences an autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells needs immediate care because this condition appears suddenly. Doctors now detect Type 2 diabetes more frequently in children because of weight gain and inactive lifestyles although this condition used to affect only adults in the past. Diabetes in children exists in different uncommon types including monogenic diabetes and cystic fibrosis-related diabetes whose occurrence remains low relative to other forms.