Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Aracely Basurto was a working mother of three in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1993 when she noticed something seemed wrong with her daughter Andrea, then nearly two years old. Out of nowhere, the toddler was losing weight, urinating frequently and drinking ravenously from water bottles she pulled from the fridge.
A chemical pharmacist, Basurto, now 49, grew increasingly nervous that she was seeing symptoms of type 1 diabetes, in which the body is unable to produce insulin that breaks down sugars and carbohydrates. Worldwide, about 490,000 children under the age of 15 have type 1 diabetes, according to the International Diabetes Federation.
In the U.S. and other developed countries, type 1 diabetes is a serious but usually manageable condition. Patients manage their condition by injecting synthetic insulin made by pharmaceutical companies.
But in countries like Ecuador, where most people don't have health insurance, can't afford syringes or insulin, and lack information about how to manage the condition, type 1 diabetes can lead to disabling complications such as blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes, nerve damage and even death.
http://www.people.com/article/heroes-among-us-aracely-basurto
Wonderful lady 🙂
A chemical pharmacist, Basurto, now 49, grew increasingly nervous that she was seeing symptoms of type 1 diabetes, in which the body is unable to produce insulin that breaks down sugars and carbohydrates. Worldwide, about 490,000 children under the age of 15 have type 1 diabetes, according to the International Diabetes Federation.
In the U.S. and other developed countries, type 1 diabetes is a serious but usually manageable condition. Patients manage their condition by injecting synthetic insulin made by pharmaceutical companies.
But in countries like Ecuador, where most people don't have health insurance, can't afford syringes or insulin, and lack information about how to manage the condition, type 1 diabetes can lead to disabling complications such as blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes, nerve damage and even death.
http://www.people.com/article/heroes-among-us-aracely-basurto
Wonderful lady 🙂
