Childrenwithdiabetes.com Website Review

the online community for kids, families and ad*lts with diabetes         december 26, 2018 volume 24, number 52. ------------------------- diabetes requires professional care. be sure to read our disclaimer. i'm from indiana. i love playing tennis and swimming. i have an 18 year old brother and an 8 year old brother. i am 16 years old and i was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when i was 15 on january 19, 2010. i have had it for about 5 months. during the winter of 2010, i was not feeling well. it wasn't like i had the flu, i just was exhausted, and it had been going on for weeks. i was going to the bathroom often, drinking water nonstop, and getting leg cramps during exercise. i was crying a lot and i was very emotional. also, my vision got increasingly worse. my eye doctor recommended that i see a doctor. i went to the pediatrician and she checked my blood sugar. it was in the 400's. then i was driven to riley hospital, and they told me i had type 1 diabetes. i stayed there for 3 days. i learned all about it and all the things i would need to do to take care of myself. ------------------------- headlines ------------------------- as*istance with access to insulin increasing incidence of type 1 diabetes in youth - twenty years of the philadelphia pediatric diabetes registry in the absence of renal disease, 20 year mortality risk in type 1 diabetes is comparable to that of the general population: a report suspended insulin infusion during overnight closed-loop glucose control in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes prolonged nocturnal hypoglycemia is common during 12 months of continuous glucose monitoring in children and ad*lts with type 1 prevention of nocturnal hypoglycemia using predictive alarm algorithms and insulin pump suspension use of a real-time continuous glucose monitoring system in children and young ad*lts on insulin pump therapy: patients' and caregivers' nocturnal hypoglycaemias in type 1 diabetic patients: what can we learn with continuous glucose monitoring?