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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Your child has a raging thirst and is rapidly losing weight. What could be behind it - it couldn't be diabetes - could it?
In this week's Scrubbing Up, Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK, says there needs to be more awareness of the symptoms of Type 1 diabetes, so it can be detected more quickly to prevent children from becoming seriously unwell.
The idea of rushing your child to hospital and then watching them fight for their life is the stuff of parents' nightmares.
Yet for hundreds of parents every year in the UK, that is the reality of a diagnosis for Type 1 diabetes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20309560
In this week's Scrubbing Up, Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK, says there needs to be more awareness of the symptoms of Type 1 diabetes, so it can be detected more quickly to prevent children from becoming seriously unwell.
The idea of rushing your child to hospital and then watching them fight for their life is the stuff of parents' nightmares.
Yet for hundreds of parents every year in the UK, that is the reality of a diagnosis for Type 1 diabetes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20309560