Abstract:

Diabetes mellitus type 1 (T1D) is one of the key components of medical nutrition therapy, diabetes care and education. The medical nutritional treatment of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, together with optimal glycemic control, aims to ensure the continuation of growth and development and to protect diabetes from acute, chronic complications. Recommendations on nutrition for children and adolescents with T1D are created in the framework of fully healthy nutrition rules and the main objective is to ensure the child's continued growth/development. The difficulties faced in the nutritional treatment and education of children and adolescents with diabetes are usually age-related and reflect the nutritional and developmental needs of different age groups. Therefore, the determining characteristics of different age groups should necessarily be taken into account when the nutritional treatment is carried out. This article will focus on the nutrition-related problems of pre-school and adolescent diabetic individuals and the transfer of diabetic youth to the adult clinic.

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