Texas Children’s Diabetes Care Center

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The diabetes care center treats and educates both established and newly diagnosed patients and their families in self management of all aspects of the types 1 and 2 diabetes.

In addition, refresher education is available to established diabetic patients and/or to referred inpatients with diabetes. The clinic team consists of a nurse educator, dietitian, physician and social worker.

Type 2 diabetes
Not too long ago, type 2 diabetes, commonly known as adult onset diabetes, was rarely seen in children. Now, the number of children diagnosed with this disease, which is more common in overweight children, is on the rise, exposing them to serious health risks.

Some 30 percent of children newly diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes – close to 75 new cases each year at Texas Children’s alone. To address the needs of these children, Texas Children’s has designed a special program. Each child works one-on-one with a dietitian and a diet educator, and a four-session seminar is offered. The family-based program encourages multiple changes in physical activity, diet and lifestyle.

Texas Children’s has one of the country’s largest clinics for type 2 diabetes, following close to 300 patients. The program was recently named one of 12 centers in the country that will participate in a national trial to determine the best treatment for this type of diabetes. Texas Children’s will provide more patients than any other hospital to the seven-year project, which started late last year.

Diabetes summer camp
For information on diabetes summer camp held in Corpus Christi, Texas, please contact Patsy Reyes at 361-694-5434.