Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Addie Parker was a happy 4-year-old who appeared to have the flu. But within hours she was in a coma.Tragically, her parents weren?t familiar with the signs of type 1 diabetes ? extreme fatigue, thirst and sweet-smelling breath, among others ? in time to save their little girl. Soon after she was diagnosed, Addie?s brain hemorrhaged. She died six days later, about a month shy of her fifth birthday. Experts say a lack of awareness of the signs of type 1 diabetes is all too common. Just this month, a Wisconsin toddler died apparently because of undiagnosed type 1 diabetes.
?Addie had flu symptoms,? recalled her mother, Micki Parker, who works in the operating room at a nearby hospital but was unfamiliar with type 1 diabetes. ?By the next morning, she was throwing up every hour,? Parker said. Addie didn?t have a fever, but later that day, she couldn?t get up from the bathroom floor because she was so dizzy. Eventually, the Parkers learned that Addie?s blood sugar level was 543 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) ? more than four times higher than normal, according to the American Diabetes Association.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-5-189553-A-deadly-form-of-diabetes-doctors-sometimes-miss
?Addie had flu symptoms,? recalled her mother, Micki Parker, who works in the operating room at a nearby hospital but was unfamiliar with type 1 diabetes. ?By the next morning, she was throwing up every hour,? Parker said. Addie didn?t have a fever, but later that day, she couldn?t get up from the bathroom floor because she was so dizzy. Eventually, the Parkers learned that Addie?s blood sugar level was 543 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) ? more than four times higher than normal, according to the American Diabetes Association.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-5-189553-A-deadly-form-of-diabetes-doctors-sometimes-miss