When sensors are vital

Yevhenii was diagnosed with severe diabetes when he was 5 years old. From birth, the boy grew up a very sickly child. When he was 4 days old, doctors had to administer injectable antibiotics because he had a newborn blister. The boy was constantly in hospitals, because a common cold developed into acute respiratory diseases that required antibiotics.

At the age of 5, Yevhenii began to lose weight very quickly, and his acetone level rose. His parents thought that this was a common condition for children of his age, but a series of tests showed that it was much worse. Yevhenii was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Since then, Yevhenii has needed strict glycemic control, otherwise there is a high risk to the boy's life. No one in his family had such a diagnosis, it was difficult to understand how to live on, the child became insulin-dependent, every carbohydrate needs to be calculated, his exercise and emotional state need to be controlled, and most importantly, he needs to accept that this is an incurable disease.

The child's father does not live with the family and does not take part in Yevhenii's life. Therefore, all the troubles fell on the mother's shoulders. Yevhenii is a very positive and kind boy, he is in the 5th grade. He likes math most of all, and it helps him a lot to calculate how many carbohydrates are in food and how many units of insulin he needs to inject. But like all children, Yevhenii can play around and fail to react to low sugar levels in time, so the boy has already lost consciousness several times. The tricky thing about hypoglycemia is that when the sugar drops, the child is no longer able to ask for help. At this point, the body fails, coordination is impaired, and speech becomes difficult. Therefore, Yevhenii needs constant monitoring of sugar, which means up to 20 finger pricks for blood sampling day and night, periodic medical supervision, analysis of various hormones, and treatment for liver support and diabetic neuropathy.

The boy's mother is asking for help to provide her son with blood sugar monitoring sensors that allow him to see his blood sugar every 5 minutes without piercing his fingers, which will help him to control it better. 11-year-old Yevhenii has two adult dreams: to end the war as soon as possible and to become a scientist to find a cure for diabetes.