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Today in order to continue our article “being a child with diabetes“, we want to further illustrate the topic of puberty in relation to diabetes. Growing up is often complicated enough without having diabetes. It gets even more complicate with diabetes: Besides variations in the hormone level, changes in the perception of value, the new kind of “friendship” and the first relationship, diabetes too changes greatly uncontrolled.
The increased pouring out of sex hormones is not only responsible for the sexual development but also for a decreased effectiveness of insulin. Because of the unpredictability and the staggered hormone level, the consequences of this process are unstable blood sugar levels, which as a rule are too high. Additionally growth hormones are added, which let the need for insulin rise further.
Another “problem” concerns “questioning”. For the first time in their lives teenagers not only regard themselves, but they are also concerned about how they have an effect on their surroundings and especially upon the opposite sex. Additionally the taste in fashion, awareness of the body and sports activities is being multiplied by the media. Here self-doubts, if the male or female teenager can keep up with that, can quickly arise. Planning for the future, which should begin at the age of the puberty, too, often results in the consciousness of the teenager that he will have to deal with diabetes throughout his whole life. This can indeed become a problem during this changeable phase.
Help for self-help from the parents’ side
- Give your child information: this is the only way to early on weaken rumours.
A shining example of one rumour is the unalterable impotence of a diabetic.
In order to prevent this rumour from coming across your child and maybe causing depressions, give him or her valid information, for example from this homepage.
- Try to take worries off your child, listening is often already enough. As simple as it may sound, sometimes it is hard for a parent to take lovesickness or a quarrel within the group serious, but these are the most important problems that your child has to deal with.
- Your child can of course handle diabetes by itself, but after a series of negative data do you nevertheless tend to express criticism? Think about it again as constant criticism can hurt. Offer your help instead or confine your criticism to constructive advice.
- Join in everything! Your son / daughter wants to explore a new leisure activity or want to drive to the countryside with his /her friends? Try to put yourself into the place of parents who have no diabetic child. Do not use diabetes as a pretext when refusing your child a new impulse.
Translated by Juliane Machado |
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