Diabetes Mellitus (DM) also affects children and adolescents. In addition to an unhealthy lifestyle, the measles virus could be the cause of children stricken with diabetes.
Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL), Prof. Dr. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, in a release received Liputan6.com, Thursday (1/3), explains, diabetes in young children can be caused by genetic factors (heredity), auto-immune diseases (immune system disorders), the pattern is not clean and healthy living such an unhealthy diet.
"Immune system disorder due to inflammation of the beta cells (insulitis)".
And insulitis, advanced Yoga, can be caused by a variety of things in between viruses, such as rubella and herpes.
Insulitis conditions, advanced Yoga, causing antibodies to cell b is called ICA (Islet Cell Antibody). Antigen (cell b) with antibodies (ICA) which caused damage to the pancreatic beta cells (pancreas), which has the function to produce the hormone insulin.
Then how to prevent the spread of diabetes in children and adolescents? Yoga mentions a number of ways, such as the implementation of healthy lifestyles in the community, dissemination of information through a healthy lifestyle campaign to the entire community through various media, and prevent children against infectious diseases caused by viruses such as measles, rubella, and herpes.
"And also completely cure the disease if the child is also an effort to prevent diabetes in children," he said. (MEL)
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