“Even if the experience is very variable from one teenager to another, it can be difficult for some to accept the constraints of the disease. Constraints that make them feel different from others, and” of a difference that they did not choose “, as noted by Professor Penfornis, diabetologist at Besançon CHU.
In response to this problem and to help them cope better with their diabetes, the division Roche Diagnostics Diabetes Care create the site www.diabeteetados.fr which will see the light of day on December 22, 2010. Its vocation will be to answer questions that adolescents do not dare to ask their parents or their doctor, which they will be able to do more easily in an anonymous way, in front of a virtual interlocutor. .
The site will be made up of three main parts:
– The first, entitled “Diabetes” will aim to explain what the disease is, to provide information on the different treatments, to specify the role of the different caregivers, to present the technological tools that can help alleviate the constraints of diabetes.
– The second will concern food and relaxation. This part includes information on functional insulin therapy, a recent therapeutic which allows adolescents to adapt their doses of insulin according to their diet. Information on the trips and the sport.
– The third part will focus on the great milestones of life. How do you live with diabetes? The issue of sexuality will also be addressed for adolescents who have difficulty talking about it with their relatives or their diabetologist.
A questionnaire sent to parents of minors showed that they were also very favorable to the creation of this site:
– The site will also answer the questions of parents or those of people in their entourage a diabetic teenager and who seek information on this subject.
– They are 94% to affirm that they would let their child go on a site like “diabetes and teenagers” because it would constitute a very good relay of information and a reduction in their support.
From December 22, you will be able to connect to www.diabeteetados.fr
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