Novel coronavirus infection in children with diabetes mellitus

Abstract

The article covers the issues of providing medical assistance to children with diabetes mellitus (DM) and novel coronavirus infection COVID-19. Currently, there are some data that COVID-19 has more mild and asymptomatic forms in children’s population. However, it shouldn’t reduce watchfulness in respect of combination of these diseases, because diabetes mellitus is related to comorbid risk factors. The publication covers the issues of diabetes control and anti-epidemic measures in children with COVID-19. The recommendations on routing the patients depending on severity of coronavirus infection and degree of diabetes decompensation were validated.

Keywords

• children
• diabetes mellitus
• coronavirus infection
• covid-19