Parents of Diabetc Children Have to Give Up Work

Mon, 17 May 2010
46 per cent of primary school pupils who with Type 1 diabetes and 29 per cent of secondary school children state that their parents have had to decrease their working hours or give up work altogether in order to administer their life saving insulin injections.

These are the latest findings of a report from Diabetes UK.

The 'State of diabetes care in the UK 2009' report interviewed 661 children and young diabetics .

It found that 65 per cent of the primary school pupils interviewed and 87 per cent of the secondary school pupils consider that staff in school are not adequately trained in diabetes, which is crucial in minimising risks to pupil’s health and in ensuring they have a full school life.

Misjudged doses of insulin injections can trigger hypoglycaemic episodes, ‘hypos’, due to low blood glucose levels .

Should pupils miss insulin injections they can get diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), due to by high blood glucose levels.

Both conditions can mean the patient can become unconsciousness and end up hospitalised if left untreated.

DKAs can especially be fatal in extreme cases.

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