When my sister called and mentioned some symptoms that my 4 year old niece Krysta was experiencing and luckily I had done some reading on diabetes because of my husband and his diabetes. I expressed my concerns and when my sister took her to the local pediatric ER they confirmed that she had extremely elevated blood glucose levels. A healthy person has a normal glucose level is in the low 100’s and my niece was 946 they day she walked into that ER. Luckily she was still able to walk into that hospital because she could have easily gone into a diabetic coma and even death was possible.
My niece had gone to her pediatrician every year for her yearly checkup but blood glucose is not usually tested in children’s routine exams. We had no family history of diabetes so my sister’s radar for this was not activated. My niece was 4 years old when she was diagnosed with Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes. Let me take a second here to mention my niece was not over weight and had no other health risk factors for diabetes.
Would you be surprised to know that there are about 215,000 people younger than 20 that have diagnosed diabetes? That is just the diagnosed how many others are there that are non-diagnosed?
Diabetes is not something you can outgrow; you cannot wish or pray it away you need to control your diabetes the very best you can so that you do not develop other problems. If your diabetes is uncontrolled you could develop kidney disease, heart disease, strokes, bladder problems in women, erection problems in men, loss of vision and permanent nerve damage. Now if this is your child that is newly diagnosed you need to train your child now so when they are old enough to be more independent they know what they can and can’t do. Remember you may want grandkids someday so get your kids to follow the guidelines now so your kids won’t pay for it when they are adults.