Juvenile diabetes, when it develops during childhood, can be
easily recognizable. Often it begins showing the standard symptoms. In cases where it has not been promptly
recognized, the fault typically lies with the parents who are either unaware of
medical progresses or who are unable to emotionally accept their child's
condition.
Bed-wetting is commonly the initial symptom to diabetes in a
child. Unfortunately, a lot of parents only consider this as a behavioral
disorder which is often punished either physically or verbally. The other
symptom is an insatiable thirst which could not be satisfied even with large
amounts of water, juice, soda, or other fluids.
Next comes extreme hunger and loss of weight. Growing children are
normally hungry many times in a day. But if their normal hunger is intensified,
and they are losing instead of gaining weight, the craving may be caused by
diabetes rather than the normal growth demands.
At this point, with these symptoms such as bed-wetting,
thirst, hunger, and weight loss, the parents should surely be aware that
something is wrong with the child and that an immediate consultation with the
doctor is necessary. All in all, too many children are not perceived as
diabetic until the disease becomes so severe that the young victim go into
diabetic coma and need to be hospitalized.
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