Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Durban - The teen years are a time of challenges. Peer pressure, school stress, unwelcome parental control and pushing the boundaries are a turbulent mix.
Throw diabetes into the equation and you are in for a bumpy ride.
Dr Kuben Pillay, a paediatric endocrinologist in Westville, even goes so far as to describe it as, for some adolescents, a ?nightmare?.
?Teenagers want to be cool, like their friends, and diabetes makes them different,? he says. ?They have to test blood glucose levels several times a day and inject insulin accordingly. This becomes difficult when they are trying to hide it from their friends.?
They are also at an age when they are more likely to indulge in risky behaviour, and diabetes does not take kindly to reckless management.
http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/family/kids/diabetes-in-the-teen-years-1.1553263#.UfNz0o22aSo
Throw diabetes into the equation and you are in for a bumpy ride.
Dr Kuben Pillay, a paediatric endocrinologist in Westville, even goes so far as to describe it as, for some adolescents, a ?nightmare?.
?Teenagers want to be cool, like their friends, and diabetes makes them different,? he says. ?They have to test blood glucose levels several times a day and inject insulin accordingly. This becomes difficult when they are trying to hide it from their friends.?
They are also at an age when they are more likely to indulge in risky behaviour, and diabetes does not take kindly to reckless management.
http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/family/kids/diabetes-in-the-teen-years-1.1553263#.UfNz0o22aSo