Young children and adolescents are much prone to get afflicted with Child diabetes or otherwise called as Type 1 diabetes.
The child diabetes can also affect grown up people or adults, but the incidence is very rare. Once the child contracts or develops this type of diabetes, the body function slows its insulin production and stops totally at a stage.
Due to the presence of low level of insulin or no insulin at all, the digestive system could not break the glucose or sugar level and hence there will be an increase of sugar level in one s blood leading to series of other disorders.
Signs of Child Diabetes
The manifestation of the child diabetes is very sudden and fast. The type 1 diabetes will be showing its presence through frequent urination by the affected child and the condition is known as polyuria.
Though it may not be necessary for you link the condition of frequent urination with that of onset of diabetes, you cannot take chances and you should immediately subject your child to a test.
Polyuria is also known to occur in so many other medical conditions and doesn t need to necessarily happen in child diabetes, but you should not fail to take your child to a doctor for examination.
The second symptom could be polydipsia and this means that the victim or the person will start feeling thirsty always and may drink lot of water and can never feel their thirst quenched.
The polydipsia and the polyuria happen in a cyclic fashion meaning that loss of water through polyuria condition necessitates the condition of polydipsia and vice versa.
If the person fail to take enough water or liquid to compensate the loss through polyuria, then the person may get dehydrated quickly, which is again more dangerous.
The next more common symptom being the alterations or difficulty in normal eye vision. The presence of an increased level of sugar in blood is known to alter or change the shape of the lens of the eyes of the affected person.
This will result in blurred vision and the person may start reporting impaired vision or experience difficulty to see normally. In many cases the person who experience in vision problems tend to consult an optometrist to find out the problem or for getting corrective lenses.
But a sudden change in one s vision is an abnormal condition and needs to be diagnosed by other doctors other than the optometrist also.
One of the other classic symptoms by which you can identify the child diabetes is through the peculiar or the strange smell of acetone in the victim s breath.
The victim is also prone to nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, enhanced breathing rate, and tend to get tired very frequently without sufficient reasons. The deadliest or the most disturbing symptom is that the patient may slip into coma without any warning.
What are the Remedies For Child Diabetes
Unfortunately, Type 1 diabetes does not have a cure and only concerted efforts to prevent person from contracting one is the best cure.
However, researches are going on in various parts of the world to devise a cure or to find out solutions for treating this child diabetes and there are many parallel researches going on for finding out alternative treatment schedules for curing the disease.
Though there are many claims for having found out cures, they are still under clinical trial stage and one has to wait to see the results. Till such time the only option available for the patient is to follow the doctor s advice without fail.
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