How to Understand Juvenile Diabetes
How to understand juvenile diabetes is vital for your child's health.
Getting the knowledge and being able to understand juvenile diabetes by managing the disease is essential so that your child can live a relatively normal life.
Children with diabetes have different issues compared to adults with diabetes.
Your child is growing and developing, psychological and social problems are much harder to handle as well as diabetes causing additional stress at a time in your child's life that is not the easiest at the best of times.
Unfortunately when your child is diagnosed with diabetes, the whole family is affected and everyone needs to adjust to the new circumstances that are associated with having diabetes.
The most important point to remember here is that your child is what comes first not the child who has diabetes, it is also important to remember that your child having diabetes is not your fault or your child's.
By identifying the symptoms of type 1 diabetes you will know if your child is affected or not, following is list of common symptoms: · Urinating frequently - this is caused because your kidneys cannot return all the glucose to the bloodstream when the blood glucose level is greater than 10 mmol/L · Increased hunger - this is caused by the lack of insulin that allows the glucose to enter into the cells · Increased thirst - because of frequent urination, you lose lots of water that your body starts to dehydrate · Weight loss - this is caused as your body loses glucose from the urine and your body breaks down muscle and fat that looks for energy · Constant weakness - when you feel weak and tired your muscle cells and the other tissues in your body do not get enough energy that is required from the glucose Some special symptoms that you need to consider and understand are as follows: · Males and females actually get type 1 diabetes equally · The winter months is when an increase of people develop diabetes, the most likely reason is that a virus is part of the equation.
It is a known fact that viruses spread much quicker when children are confined together inside a room, whether it is playing or being educated at the time Understanding juvenile diabetes will not only help your child but the whole family.
It is important that you do not treat your child any differently from the other members of the family, because this will not only cause anguish for your child, but it will make your job in managing the diabetes a lot harder than it should be.
Getting the knowledge and being able to understand juvenile diabetes by managing the disease is essential so that your child can live a relatively normal life.
Children with diabetes have different issues compared to adults with diabetes.
Your child is growing and developing, psychological and social problems are much harder to handle as well as diabetes causing additional stress at a time in your child's life that is not the easiest at the best of times.
Unfortunately when your child is diagnosed with diabetes, the whole family is affected and everyone needs to adjust to the new circumstances that are associated with having diabetes.
The most important point to remember here is that your child is what comes first not the child who has diabetes, it is also important to remember that your child having diabetes is not your fault or your child's.
By identifying the symptoms of type 1 diabetes you will know if your child is affected or not, following is list of common symptoms: · Urinating frequently - this is caused because your kidneys cannot return all the glucose to the bloodstream when the blood glucose level is greater than 10 mmol/L · Increased hunger - this is caused by the lack of insulin that allows the glucose to enter into the cells · Increased thirst - because of frequent urination, you lose lots of water that your body starts to dehydrate · Weight loss - this is caused as your body loses glucose from the urine and your body breaks down muscle and fat that looks for energy · Constant weakness - when you feel weak and tired your muscle cells and the other tissues in your body do not get enough energy that is required from the glucose Some special symptoms that you need to consider and understand are as follows: · Males and females actually get type 1 diabetes equally · The winter months is when an increase of people develop diabetes, the most likely reason is that a virus is part of the equation.
It is a known fact that viruses spread much quicker when children are confined together inside a room, whether it is playing or being educated at the time Understanding juvenile diabetes will not only help your child but the whole family.
It is important that you do not treat your child any differently from the other members of the family, because this will not only cause anguish for your child, but it will make your job in managing the diabetes a lot harder than it should be.