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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
As dozens of children live with undiagnosed Type 1 diabetes, which can have fatal consequences, health correspondent RACHEL ALLEN finds out how the region?s leading specialists are trying to reach them sooner.
Teenager Elli Harpum is just one of many young people proving that being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes doesn?t stop them from living life to the full.
The 18-year-old was diagnosed with the autoimmune condition in 2002 just after her 8th birthday, after weeks of feeling tired.
Her mum Liz Harpum said she put it down to moving up to junior school and the ?numerous activities she did?.
She said: ?She was eating like a horse but seemed very slim, and there were a couple of days when she seemed incredibly thirsty.
?It all came to a head in the space of four days: a friend told me that Elli had fallen asleep during the disco for her daughters? birthday party, she sobbed for a drink when I had just seen her drink two glasses of squash and I realised she had lost weight when a school skirt I knew had fitted in September literally fell off her hips.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Hea...venile-diabetes-early-is-crucial-18032013.htm
Teenager Elli Harpum is just one of many young people proving that being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes doesn?t stop them from living life to the full.
The 18-year-old was diagnosed with the autoimmune condition in 2002 just after her 8th birthday, after weeks of feeling tired.
Her mum Liz Harpum said she put it down to moving up to junior school and the ?numerous activities she did?.
She said: ?She was eating like a horse but seemed very slim, and there were a couple of days when she seemed incredibly thirsty.
?It all came to a head in the space of four days: a friend told me that Elli had fallen asleep during the disco for her daughters? birthday party, she sobbed for a drink when I had just seen her drink two glasses of squash and I realised she had lost weight when a school skirt I knew had fitted in September literally fell off her hips.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Hea...venile-diabetes-early-is-crucial-18032013.htm