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Type 1 & Ear ache

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Are type 1 diabetes and ear ache linked at all? I’ve just read that high glucose levels can cause ear pain and hearing loss.
Has anyone experienced this?
My daughter is 5, and newly diagnosed for 3 months. The past 4 days she has been complaining of ear pain, it’s even stopping her sleeping. It’s only in 1 ear.
Trying to get an appointment with a doctor, but until then, any advice?
 
I’ve never heard that @Hawk22 Perhaps she has a virus that causing the pain and high levels? There’s a particular one going round at the moment that affects the ears and sinuses. If the pain is severe, she should see a doctor.
 
In theory I think having high blood sugar for a long time can cause all sorts of problems, although I’ve never heard of that one specifically. You’d have to have ridiculously high sugars for a very long time though before you start seeing that sort of thing happening. The chances are that your daughter has just picked up some sort of virus which all children get from time to time and that’s what’s making her ear hurt. (High blood sugars may make it harder for her to fight off infection too.)

Your daughter is still early in her diabetes journey, once she’s stabilised at normal levels, as long as you always do the best you can to keep them there, she should be at no higher risk than anyone else of developing hearing or any other problems.
 
Hawk22 said:
Are type 1 diabetes and ear ache linked at all? I’ve just read that high glucose levels can cause ear pain and hearing loss.
Has anyone experienced this?
My daughter is 5, and newly diagnosed for 3 months. The past 4 days she has been complaining of ear pain, it’s even stopping her sleeping. It’s only in 1 ear.
Trying to get an appointment with a doctor, but until then, any advice?
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My daughter is 6 and always seems to be moaning about ear ache. Before diagnosis she’d never really been ill, but one night she got a really bad earache to the point where she was writhing about in pain. Few weeks later she was diagnosed with type 1 and it’s been on and off ever since! Probably not linked but weird.
 
Apparently I had ear ache shortly before being diagnosed, though I did have ear ache quite a lot as a child (before and after becoming diabetic).
 
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