Friday, September 10, 2010

Vietnam: The girl nearly died from diabetes have no symptoms

Wednesday, 08.09.2010

Coma when admitted to hospital but no symptoms to physicians diagnose, so on The weaker baby in a coma. Until the implementation of intensive testing, new patients were identified with diabetes.

The family said, two days before admission, she Method (4 years) with signs of fever, cough, runny nose, wheezing, vomiting several times and then suddenly Bruce weaker.

Science City in general a Children's Hospital, she was a monitoring and treatment based on symptoms described by family. But her health condition is getting more critical.

Before patients comatose state, rapid breathing, pale, with signs of dehydration, sunken eyes dry lips, dry skin, doctors conducted tests emergency. Results showed that her blood sugar 3 times higher than normal (expression of diabetes). This is also the cause of coma.

Immediately after the conclusion illness, she was treated by passing through intravenous insulin adjustment effects blood sugar, rehydration and respiratory assistance. Results after more than a week of treatment, the baby was awake method.

Doctor Nguyen Minh Tien, vice-Emergency Department Children's Hospital, said diabetes in children eat expression through multiple, small lot, weight loss, are far less common. Instead, children have respiratory symptoms, digestive easily confused with other pathologies.

"Diabetes in children but rare complications such as coma, acidosis ceton cases can progress on serious, even fatal if not detected early and treated promptly," Mr Tien said.

The children had signs of diabetic acidosis ceton ambiguous with gastrointestinal diseases were nausea, stop eating, abdominal pain, shortness of breath, enough lu, struggle. When you see these symptoms, parents need to quickly bring the child to hospital emergency promptly.

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