The quality of your child's life may depend on being able to recognize the symptoms of diabetes in children.
The disease elevates the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood. As blood sugars remain high, over time, complications such as blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart disease, and severe nerve damage can occur.
The quality of your child's life may depend on being able to recognize the symptoms of diabetes in children.
Diabetes in children has reached almost epidemic proportions. The incidence of this chronic and sometimes deadly disease is predicted to continue to rise.
Unfortunately for parents, sometimes it can be hard to identify the symptoms of diabetes in children. Read the list below and you'll understand why often symptoms of diabetes aren't recognized early.
When they are, doctors can help immediately with treatment and help you to maintain and control the diabetes.
Symptoms of diabetes in children and adults are:
o Frequent thirst - You may just be thinking your child drinks a lot.
o Frequent infections - Many consider this just a part of childhood.
o Blurred Vision - Your child may not tell you as the blurred vision can come and go. It's not always constant.
o Cuts/bruises that are slow to heal - It's easy to think the injury was just a "bad one" and it's taking longer to heal.
o Tingling/numbness in hands or feet - Again you child may not notice or tell you about it as it's not usually constant.
o Frequent urination - Many just think it comes from drinking more.
o Extreme hunger - Often parents think their child is going through a "growth spurt" and just requires more food.
o Unusual weight loss - This symptom does normally make parents concerned. If the child has bee overweight, parents sometimes think .....Great, the weight is finally coming off.
o Irritability - Can often be labeled as parent/child confrontations. Also many parents of teens just think it's a normal part of the teenage years.
You won't see all of this at once. You will notice one of them, then a month or two latter something else...
Some other warning signs of diabetes mellitus include:
Flu like symptoms:Sometimes it feels that diabetes is a viral disease as it causes loss of appetite, fatigue and weakness. Sugar is the main fuel of the body its absence cause these fatigue and weakness signs.
Weight Loss or Gain: The body is attempting to compensate for sugar and fluid loss. The diabetic may eat more and gain weight; opposite may also occur. It is possible that diabetic may eat more but still start to lose weight.
Blurriness in Vision: High blood sugar level extracts fluids from the cells of the tissue including the eye lens. This strongly affects the lens of eye and thus the ability of focusing. The vision however starts to improve by controlling the sugar levels.
Recurrent Infection and Slow Healing Wounds: Diabetes seriously affects the ability to heal and fight against infection. Vaginal and bladder infections are the classic signs of diabetes mellitus in women.
Swollen, Red and Tender Gums: Diabetes mellitus increase the infection risk in bones and gums of the teeth. This cause the teeth to become lose. This also develops pockets of pus or sores in gums. This is specifically true if you have ever suffered from gum infection even before the sign of diabetes.
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