It is not a hidden truth that diabetes is no longer an age old problem. The disease is commonly been diagnosed in children and this is the reason that health experts have been asking parents to take care of their children’s diet.

The health experts further affirmed that children as young as nine years old have been suffering from it. The age, in which they should be living a healthy and playful life, children are living with insulin pump in their hands. This is quite a grave situation, said Molly Naylor, who is the Executive Director of the Houston Gulf Coast Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Naylor said that they have one patient who is just nine years old and suffers from diabetes. Olivia Cane is the little girl who has to prick her finger weight to nine times a day to monitor her blood sugar level. Cane parents told that Olivia also carries insulin pump for emergency. Naylor said that there are many children of Olivia’s age who are suffering from diabetes.

This is a matter of concern and a high time for the authorities concerned to take an action. Health experts said that the government needs to take out awareness campaigns to disclose the fact that diabetes is no longer an old age problem and can occur to children as well.

Free check up campaigns would be quite beneficial so children would be able to know whether or not they are suffering from diabetes. Moreover, an awareness campaigns should also be at the place so parents and children could have one to eon interaction with doctors.

Things are not going to improve till the time parents are not going to take initiative in the matter. They need to involve themselves in kids’ activities and then only children would adopt a healthy lifestyle.