Protocolo de atendimento multidisciplinar a crianças e adolescentes com Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1 da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora – Campus Governador Valadares

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic and multifactorial condition that leads to the development of chronic hyperglycemia. Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (DM1) is increasing worldwide and its incidence in children and adolescents shows an increase rate of around 3 to 4% per year. The objective of this study is to present the treatment protocol of the extension project entitled: “Multidisciplinary care for children and adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus carried out at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - Campus GV”. The protocol was developed by a multidisciplinary team, for health professionals, composed of a pediatric endocrinologist, a nutritionist, a dental surgeon and a physical educator, together with students from the medicine, nutrition, dentistry and physical education courses. The multidisciplinary service aims to monitor children and adolescents diagnosed with DM1 and their guardians, aged between 0 and 18 years, residing in the municipality of Governador Valadares. The application of this multidisciplinary protocol will be able to guide health professionals in order to offer children and/or adolescents a multidisciplinary, integrated and humane care, which covers the main areas impacted by Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: medicine, nutrition, dentistry, physical education, in addition to offering a welcome to those responsible who also face the daily challenges brought about by the diagnosis.