Insulin pump for children with diabetes plug the dream wings

The theme of this year's Diabetes Day is Caring for Children and Adolescents and Diabetes, highlighting the international community's concern about this special group of children and adolescents with diabetes. Recently, more than 20 children's drawings reflecting the aspiration of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus have become a beautiful landscape at the first ever commemoration of the United Nations Diabetes Day at Beijing Children's Hospital. These drawings of children donated by Medtronic Insulin Pumps demonstrate their desire to grow, live and be healthy just like normal children, and the confidence that modern medical technology brings to them. In the back of every child, there is a touching story of resistance to diabetes disease. Although their paintings are simple, they have a powerful impact. A diabetic girl from Yunnan said: "Young life will not stop growing because of weakness. The wings of a dream will lead me through the dark." On the day's activities, Gong Chunxiu, Director of Endocrinology at Beijing Children's Hospital, said: Type I diabetes, also known as children and adolescents with diabetes, most patients due to viral infection and other factors lead to self-immune damage to islet cells, can not normally secrete insulin. Patients at the age of onset of young, once diagnosed, need lifelong dependence on insulin injection. It is estimated that there are 1 million Type 1 diabetic patients in China. However, with advances in medical science and technology, as long as regular treatment is persisted, people with Type I diabetes still have a good prognosis and can live, work and study as normal and grow as normal children. In particular, insulin-intensive therapy and insulin pump automatic continuous infusion system was born, so that more children with diabetes can maintain long-term blood glucose levels in the ideal control, greatly reducing the incidence of chronic complications. However, many families do not have enough financial power to use insulin pumps. Medtronic launched this year's "Wings of Dreams - Helping Children and Adolescents with Diabetes" and decided to donate insulin pumps to 30 children and adolescents with diabetes in China so they can Get advanced treatment, the same as normal children grow freely.

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