Outside-hospital assistance for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Telephone care, Telemedicine, Home care and Diabetic Camps are the most useful ways for Paediatricians to transfer diabetic care outside the hospital. These provide children with diabetes and their parents with an effective and practical tool to solve directly arising therapeutic problems and improve their quality of care and life. The advantages for the National Health Care System could be macroscopic: according to some studies, the Telephone care service allows to save 85% of the hospitalisation costs for children with acute metabolic intercurrent illnesses-related derangements.

Self-monitoring adherence to physical activity in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

Monitoring blood glucose is essential for good diabetes control and even more important when participating in sports. Many variables can have an effect on blood sugar response to aerobic or anaerobic activities. A moderate exercise produces an average fall in plasma glucose of approximately 40% of baseline values.

Breakfast habits of 1,202 northern Italian children admitted to a summer sport school. Breakfast skipping is associated with overweight and obesity.

Very little is known about the differences in breakfast of children performing physical activity in the morning. This paper analyzed the breakfast habits of 747 boys and 455 girls, distributed in 2 homogeneous age groups, 6-10 and 11-14 year-old, participating in a Summer Sport School. Children were asked whether, when, where, how and with whom they consumed breakfast; who prepared meals; what they ate and drank; what they did during breakfast.