Knowing The Symptoms Of Type 1 Diabetes Can Save Your Child's Life

Filed in archive Family Matters on September 28, 2006

More than 13,000 children are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes each year. Many parents are not aware of the symptoms that may signal this potentially life threatening condition. Be sure to educate yourself.

Know the Symptoms:The need to urinate often. If your child has been potty trained and begins wetting themselves frequently, consider juvenile diabetes as a possibility.

Extreme thirst and a keen desire for cold drinks that are sweet.

A need to eat often and complaints of being hungry.

Eyesight problems such as blurred vision.

Irritable.

Child complains of nausea and is vomiting. (Acute symptoms that need immediate attention) Losing weight while continuing to display a healthy appetite.

Listless, tired, abnormally quiet.

Articles like these may make a huge difference in the health of your child.

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