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Childhood is the most beautiful and careless age of whoever’s life but could it be disturbed by external factors? Nowadays’ living shows that there are several reasons of feeling unhappy and unprotected even for children. One of the most dangerous illnesses at which children are exposed to is juvenile diabetes.

You may wonder: ‘So, what should we do for our children to make their existence easier in spite of their illness?’

Firstly, we suggest you not to terrify your children by reminding them all the time that they are ill. It just doesn’t help at anything! Of course that you must take care of him or her, but don’t exaggerate! Even though they are ill, children can undertake physical actions adequate to their age, like volleyball, handball, basketball, football, tennis, cycling, jogging and dancing. These exercises will not only improve their physical conditions and entertain them, but will also help them psychically. Physical effort is part of the juvenile diabetes’ therapy, after the diet and insulin treatment. These exercises should be regularly and progressive practiced, thinking about their duration and force, but they must have a doctor’s supervision. However, sports like swimming, climbing, diving and even lonely sailing should be avoided, because they have a great risk of hypoglycemia.

Furthermore, sweets should be considerably reduced from their alimentation and fruits and vegetables can replace them. A special diet is, however in almost all cases, the best solution for somebody who suffers from juvenile diabetes. This diet could contain: dried fruits, integral bread, pasta, maize meal and oatmeal, rice, certain fruits and vitamins A and E.

Insulin injections must have a well specified place in a children suffering from juvenile diabetes life. The amount of insulin should be diminished and the ratio of glucoses could be limited only to physical activities practice. But exercises have a very important role and they are an essential help for a specific diet if constantly practiced.

What can we tell you about their education and future plans concerning their professional orientation? Well, they can have a normal life when attending classes with the main condition of being supported by his or her classmates and teachers. On the other hand, the professions involving work in a high temperature, loud noise, permanent nervous straining should be avoided.

All in all, even if they suffer from juvenile diabetes, children should be supported to have a normal existence. Eventually, childhood could be the most charming age for everyone!

Diabetes during pregnancy is also called gestational diabetes which sometimes develops late in pregnancy. Insulin is a hormone that enables the body to break down sugar to be used as energy. Without sufficient insulin the amount of sugar in the blood rises.  This form of diabetes usually disappears after the birth of the baby, but women who have had gestational diabetes stand a 20 to 50 percent chance of developing type II diabetes. Pregnancy hormones or a shortage of insulin causes gestational diabetes and may not show any symptoms.

Glucose levels in pregnant women can diagnose gestational diabetes as glucose levels are lower during pregnancy. Blood glucose levels are measured before a woman drinks a beverage containing glucose. After that levels are checked 1, 2, and 3 hours. A woman has gestational diabetes if two blood glucose levels meet or exceed certain number.

The cause of gestational diabetes can be the hormones produced during pregnancy that block the action of insulin. The mother’s body then cannot produce enough extra insulin to counteract this blocking effect.

Women are more at risk if they:

• they have a history of type II diabetes
• are over the age of 35
• are obese
• have previously given birth to a large baby
• have previously given birth to an abnormal baby
• have previously had a stillbirth late in pregnancy

The effect of gestational diabetes on the fetus during pregnancy is that high blood sugar can cause the baby to grow larger, which can lead to difficult delivery and injuries to both mother and baby during birth.

Treatment involves regular testing of blood sugar, a planned diet and sufficient exercise.

The body has a mechanism – cells, breaking down glucose which we don’t use. Cells lose their ability to respond to insulin helping to break down the glucose in type II diabetes. That is the hormone that tells the body to remove excess glucose in the bloodstream. Symptoms like weight-loss, tiredness and blurred vision occur when glucose builds up in the bloodstream. Blindness, heart diseases and premature death occur in extreme cases.

Preventing the mentioned symptoms of type II diabetes, researchers found that cinnamon can help to restore fat cells so that it can respond to insulin for the removal of increased glucose. The substance in cinnamon responsible for this is MHCP. Successful research had already been done on mice where it helped their glucose levels to fall dramatically. This year research started on human beings. With research still on in human beings researchers recommend that those with type II diabetes take one quarter to a full teaspoon of cinnamon every day. Those taking cinnamon as a supplement can already testify of an improvement in their health.

Cinnamon is also popular for energy from which diabetics as well as non-diabetics can benefit. A quarter to a full teaspoon cinnamon in milkshakes or juices per day is prescribed for type II diabetics.

Another feature of cinnamon is its richness in magnesium. Bone density electrolyte balance and enzyme functions all depend on magnesium. Loss thereof as one grows older can be taken in again through cinnamon. It also restores glucose or insulin imbalances.

Type II diabetics develop round about middle-age and prematurely kills millions of people all over the world every year. The glucose that builds up also leads to very high cholesterol levels which is the major cause of heart attacks and heart diseases. Cinnamon’s MHCP ingredients help to control these levels.

As cinnamon is an inexpensive, readily available spice in food stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets it seems as if research wants to have that there is a new cure to an old illness.

Diabetics should consult, or at least inform their doctor before they start taking cinnamon because it may affect their medication requirements.

If you find out a sugar value higher than normal in your blood, apart from other characteristic clinical signs and symptoms it is more than certain that you suffer from diabetes.

The signs and symptoms of type 1 diabetes appear relatively quickly, from a few days to 2-3 months and they are:

• Excessive thirst
• Abundant urination
• Tiredness
• Exaggerated hunger
• Weakness and loss of weight eve if appetite sometimes is high; however this symptom can be rare.

The signs and the symptoms of type 2 diabetes appear later, during the evolution of the disease. Many persons don’t have any symptoms when the disease is detected. The patient does not know that he or she suffers from diabetes. This is often detected on the occasion of laboratory tests performed occasionally. Be careful, that sometimes the moment of the disease detection does not correspond to the moment of type 2 diabetes occurrence, which might have appeared some years before.

When the sugar value in your blood is higher than 180 mg/dl, glucose appears in the urine and the following symptoms appear:

• Excessive thirst which is associated with the consumption of high amounts of water. Some persons may consume even 4-6 liters of water per day, which can be a warning sign.
• Abundant urination: it may happen that the patient who suffers from diabetes gets up even at night to go to the toilet.
• Tiredness associated with irritability
• Loss of weight although the patient may eat a lot, but this can be explained by the tendency of the impossibility of the body to use the food and the auto digestion tendency for survival (the organism starts consuming from itself if it can’t use the food)
• Sight problems
• Repeated infections which can’t be cured

All these symptoms, especially when they are detected together are very important and it should always lead to a sugar level test, in order to see if you suffer from diabetes.