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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
People are being urged to take five minutes from their busy lives to make themselves aware of the symptoms of type 1 diabetes and so prevent the trauma of late diagnosis by watching a new online video.
Diabetes UK and JDRF, the type 1 diabetes charity, have today launched a video featuring children living with type 1 diabetes and showing the most common symptoms of the condition.
About 2,000 children a year are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which means it is five times more common in children than bacterial meningitis. But despite this, a quarter of children are only diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when they are hospitalised. The severe lack of insulin within the body upsets the body's normal chemical balance and causes ketones to be produced. These are poisonous chemicals which, if left unchecked, and combined with high blood glucose levels, can result in serious illness, and even coma and death. This is known as diabetic ketoacidosis.
http://www.practicebusiness.co.uk/news/1607/call-for-a-million-people-to-get-type-1-aware/
Diabetes UK and JDRF, the type 1 diabetes charity, have today launched a video featuring children living with type 1 diabetes and showing the most common symptoms of the condition.
About 2,000 children a year are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which means it is five times more common in children than bacterial meningitis. But despite this, a quarter of children are only diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when they are hospitalised. The severe lack of insulin within the body upsets the body's normal chemical balance and causes ketones to be produced. These are poisonous chemicals which, if left unchecked, and combined with high blood glucose levels, can result in serious illness, and even coma and death. This is known as diabetic ketoacidosis.
http://www.practicebusiness.co.uk/news/1607/call-for-a-million-people-to-get-type-1-aware/