(Adnkronos) - “I pregiudizi e i luoghi comuni sul diabete agiscono in maniera significativa sulla vita di tutti. Sono spesso luoghi comuni errati, dettati dalla scarsa conoscenza che c’era in passato”. Sono le parole di Stefano Nervo, presidente di Diabete Italia, intervenuto a Roma durante la presentazione della nuova survey internazionale sui pregiudizi legati al diabete realizzata su incarico di Abbott che evidenzia come quasi 1 paziente su 4 eviti di parlare della propria patologia con familiari e amici per imbarazzo.
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00:00Prejudices and common places on diabetes
00:04Prejudices and common places on diabetes
00:07have a significant impact on everyone's life.
00:10Common places are often wrong,
00:13dictated by the lack of knowledge we had in the past
00:17and linked above all to type 2 diabetes,
00:20which is certainly a preventable form,
00:23but, for example, the most common place
00:26is that it is sought in some way.
00:29This is absolutely not the case,
00:32but this puts people in a position
00:35to have a further difficulty
00:38to face their own life.
00:41So in the world of school,
00:44in the world of work,
00:47children who are not brought to school
00:50for misinformation, for ignorance,
00:53because we do not know exactly what diabetes is
00:56and how it should be managed,
00:59but also in the world of work
01:02and also in the moment when
01:05we approach any social environment.
01:08Common places must be fought.
01:11The first fundamental thing
01:14that we have been repeating for years
01:17is no longer to speak of diabetics,
01:20but of people with diabetes,
01:23so that they are not sick of a difficult disease,
01:26but to bring them back to the center of the person
01:29means to give them dignity.
01:32Associations are on the side of people with diabetes every day.
01:35When a child is not taken on a trip,
01:38the volunteers of the association
01:41act immediately to explain to the teachers
01:44what needs to be done,
01:47some precautions that are essential
01:50and to bring them on a trip means to make them understand
01:53that a normal life with this pathology
01:56is possible and it is essential to do it
01:59especially at that age,
02:02but also in the world of work.
02:05It is often prejudice and ignorance about the disease
02:08that block assumptions,
02:11that block certain aspects.
02:14Associations are active, as I said,
02:17and we are always on the side of patients.