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Misconceptions of Type 1 and Type 2. While Type 2 diabetes can be prevented through healthy eating and exercise, Type 1 Diabetes or Juvenile Diabetes cannot be prevented. Most people think if a child has diabetes, it's because of lack of exercise and over eating. That is farther from truth. |
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| Author: Swee Smith |
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Both my husband's family and my family have no history of anyone with Type 1 Diabetes. We are a family who eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly. I noticed so many of our friends, I know they meant well, tried to help us by sharing with us thing they do for Type 2 Diabetes. While Type 2 can be prevented as well as reverse itself if eating a healthy diet and exercise. Type 1 diabetes on the other hand can never be out grown or cured. It can be managed by giving insulin shots or through an insulin pump.
So how do children, infants or even young adults get Juvenile Diabetes ?
The child has to be exposed to two things. One is exposure to virus and the second thing is still unknown to doctors or medical researchers, that cause the antibodies to attacks their own pancreas cells which produce insulin for the body. The child will go through a period call the "Honeymoon" stage where they will still produce some insulin until eventually all their pancreas cells are completely destroyed. This "Honeymoon" stage can go on for three months to a years. Until that stage is over it can be very frustrating. For instant with my daughter, the first three to four months she need very little insulin and we could manage it very well.
Then when her insulin production was so random it was very frustrating and something scary. Frustrating because it seemed like no matter what amonut of insulin given to her, it was never correct. Her blood glucose would go too high or too low. The most scary thing we experienced was when she had her first seizure when her blood glucose dropped too low too fast. It was in the middle of the night, we heard her screaming. My husband and I ran into her room to see what was wrong. She screamed with the most fearful look on her face. At first we thought she was having a nightmare,. I held her and tried to console her but she didn't seem to understand what I said or knew who I was. she continued to scream and then I felt he body jerked and I knew she was going through a seizure which I had read about since she was diagnosed.
We checked her gloucose immediately and she was very low. We tried to give her some juice to bring her sugar up but she was unable to swallow. I watched the color drained from her face within seconds. she turned grey and went stiff. We had been taught to use the Glucagon shot (it's a large syring with sugar solution for emergency lows) and I administered it to her. This injection is a sugar solution that will raise the blood glucose very quickly. Wwithin seconds her body went limp and her color came back back but she was not conscious. I tried to wake her up but she just lay on my arm not responding. Then I started panicking because I thought she had gone into a coma, which can happened. Since that was our very first experience we really didn't know what to expect. My husband had called 911 when all these was happening. I don't remember how helpful the operator was but we decided to just take her to the emergency.
Meanwhile I kept trying to wake her, we would get an occasional eye movement. By the time we reached the hospital, she gave her first response, she nodded when I asked if she could hear me. This first response from her was only half an hour later after the Glucagon shot. But it was the longest half hour of my life that left me shaking for a few days. I really thought I lost my little girl that night. It was a very scary feeling. We had been through this twice in these nine months. The second time was scary but at least we knew what to expect.
Just recently our local news interviewed Abby, my daughter and I about Juvenile Diabetes but they had linked the Type 1 diabetes to Type 2 being the same thing by a doctor who specialized in Type 2 Diabetes commend. His comment was that Diabetes is brought on by poor diets and lack of exercise. This doctor should have clarified that he was speaking of Type 2 diabetes. The sad thing is now when people reads that article written by our local news reporter, would give people don't know the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes a misconception.
With modern technology people with Type 1 diabetes can live quite a normal lifestyle. As a parent caring for a child with diabetes is costly and sometimes with sleepless nights when her insulin pump warns us of her highs and lows in the middle of the night. Since Abby has been on the pump we had prevent two seizures. It was worth the extra expenses to get her into an insulin pump.
So can Type 1 diabetes be cure? No unless someone can create her a new pencreas and her antibodies wouldn't distry it to. Maybe in future there will be answer to how to tell these antibodies not tho destroy their own pancreas cells. But those who are already have the disease, we can hope for continual improvement in caring for the disease.
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