How to understand that a child has diabetes: often no one pays attention to these symptoms

Type 1 diabetes is increasingly being diagnosed in children and adolescents around the world.

It is very important to diagnose the disease in time, because the sooner it is done, the greater the chances of preventing complications.

Signs of Type 1 Diabetes in Children

All the symptoms of diabetes appear because glucose loses its ability to pass from the blood into tissues and thereby provide the body with energy.

Therefore, a child who is forced into conditions of energy starvation will always want to eat more.

Due to the fact that the kidneys take on the responsibility of removing “excess” glucose from the blood, the child will go to the toilet more often.

For the same reason, he will be forced to drink a lot.

As a result of the fact that the process of glucose absorption by tissues in a child with diabetes is disrupted, he will begin to feel fatigue, which develops into chronic fatigue, and weakness.

As a rule, these symptoms are often ignored in the family.

Adults mistakenly believe that a child's fatigue is caused by excessive workload at school, they justify weight loss by the fact that the teenager has begun to grow rapidly, or they cite other physiological reasons as arguments.

But if you are still tormented by suspicions, go with your child to see a pediatrician or endocrinologist and be sure to have a blood sugar test.

If left to its own devices, the body will begin to look for other sources of energy and will find them in proteins and fats. As a result of their breakdown, ketone bodies appear, and an excess of ketones, in turn, is fraught with poisoning and the appearance of ketoacidosis - a severe complication of diabetes.