Yes there are comments to that effect on the DUK FB page... Though I suppose it is more likely that GPs (with little experience/only a vague recollection of T1) would brush off 'panicky parents'. And the symtoms are the same whatever your age, so greater awareness of them can only help IMO.
It's something I've been noticing more and more though, that Type 1 is a childhood disease - there also seems to be a much greater use of the word 'juvenile' in press reports. Before I was diagnosed I think I thought that you were born with Type 1, so if you weren't then you wouldn't get it
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It is a good video, and obviously (but not explicitly) directed at parents, but just a line to say that it's not only a disease of childhood would have been nice. It's good to clarify the possibility in children though, since they are prone to so many more illnesses with similar symptoms than perhaps adults are.
I suspect a lot of adult-diagnosed Type 1s put the symptoms down to age (especially if middle-aged, like me) so the symptoms, although the same as a child's, can be explained away and not associated with what a child might experience (one might expect/imagine very different reasons for a child experiencing similar symptoms).
Although possibly a minority group, slim, healthy adults might dismiss the possibility of Type 1 or Type 2 because they don't consider themselves to be in the risk categories for either (e.g. me, again!
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Basically, anyone can get either type at any age!
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