Childhood diabetes?

I have had juvenile (more commonly, type 1) diabetes for 23 years. Diagnosed when I was 14, now age 37. By today's standards, it's not very common. A LOT more people have type 2 (adult onset) diabetes than type 1. The cause isn't really known. For example, everyone knows that type 2 is caused by being over weight and diet. Unfortunately, type 1 diabetes doesn't get the attention and research dollars that type 2 gets because type 2 diabetes is at epidemic proportions. Here's more on juvenile or type 1 diabetes: http://www.diabetes.org/type-1-diabetes.jsp

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My daughter has had diabetes since she was 2. She is now 16.

As for educational expectations,it took us years of fighting with the school district to allow her to do a blood test in the classroom.It is now the law.She can obviously eat in class if necessary or go to the nurse if things seem to get out of hand.

If she leaves class due to a hi or low , she is responsible for making the test and the info given in class up.She kinda has a bit of an advantage here since her twin sister already took the test on time and can help her with the test questions !! So not fair.

There is a medical PPT called a 405 plan that parents and educators fill out before the beginning of the school year.It dictates her responsibilities and the schools responsibilities pertaining to her diabetes.

If anyone wants to chat more on the subject, Just e mail me.I'll be happy to chat.

It's a long road with a child with diabetes.Her father and I decided that diabetes would not stop her from doing anything she wanted to do.

So far so good.It can take a good fight though. Never give up.

All really great answers! All I can add is that "childhood diabetes" *usually* refers to Type 1 diabetes. This is the rarer severe non-preventable form of the disease that always requires insulin.

It is not often talked about and is not related to obesity or poor diet.

About .5 % of the population has this form of diabetes.

They make up 5-10% of all diabetics.

It is overall not that common. Type 2 diabetes, the kind linked to obesity and poor lifestyle choices, make up the majority of diabetes cases.

I totally agree that not enough attention is on Type 1 diabetes! We can't forget those with this horrible disease that can't be prevented!

Back on topic....The child needs to have access to food, their insulin, and blood glucose testing equipment AT ALL TIMES. Someone must also be trained to help them use this equipment and manage out of range blood sugars if they cannot do it alone, and know how to treat diabetic emergencies.

These "disability rules" need to be in place to keep the child healthy and safe, and able to learn.

The last question puzzles me. I would not call myself disabled. What did you mean by educational expectations? I am a type 1 diabetic and I do know that 90% of diabetics are type 2 the reaming 10% are type 1. (the gestational diabetics fall into the type 2 number) Of the type 1 population about 80-90% of them are diagnoised before (at a young age) or during puberity.

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Unfortunately it is too common and the rates are increasing.

Although the increase in obesity in children is beginning to increase the incidence of these overweight children developing type 2 diabetes, it is usually type 1 diabetes that develops in juveniles.

It appears that, as with many of the common diseases of the endocrine system, an auto-immune problem is the root cause of type 1 diabetes. The body’s natural defence mechanisms begin to turn on body tissue as well as or rather than the invaders they are designed to destroy. In the case of type 1 diabetes, the immune system destroys the valuable beta cells within the pancreas that are responsible for the production and release of insulin.

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