The diagnosis of diabetes in a child can lead to a variety of emotions in the child, siblings or the adults in the family including anger, sadness, and guilt. These feelings are completely normal.

Most children are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, which means there are going to be a lot of adaptations to make on a daily basis. These changes include what foods are eaten, the daily physical activity level, and how they manage caring for their disease like having shots and taking other medications, monitoring blood glucose level, getting enough sleep and caring for their body.

Children with diabetes can lead normal lives and can be healthy, as long as they and those who care for them learn how to manage the disease. An older child can even learn how to do much of his or her diabetic care by herself or himself, with proper education about the disease – thus gaining confidence in their ability to handle things.

It is important for kids to know that they are not alone and that there are other kids who also have diabetes.

A child has a lot to learn about diabetes and how to live with it. Managing diabetes is a daily matter that never goes away. When the child goes to school, others will need to be told that the child has diabetes such as teachers.

A child with diabetes can lead a full and healthy life when they follow the treatment plan designed by their pediatrician. Diabetes will bring a lot of changes to the child’s life, but it doesn’t have to take over the life completely. There is more to the child than the disease.

Your child’s life will now include administering insulin shots, blood tests, meal plans, counting carbohydrates, and learning how to recognize symptoms of low or high blood sugar and what to do about it.

In truth it is not always easy for a child or a child’s family members to deal with diabetes.

Approximately 35 to 75% of children diagnosed with diabetes do not follow the meal plans designed for them by registered dieticians or their doctors. As many as 80% do not give the insulin correctly or on time. As many as 70% of them do not record their blood glucose levels. Even though foot care is crucial for diabetics as many as 52% of children or their parents do not take time to get adequate foot care and a shocking 81% do not exercise enough.

There are many reasons why children and their parents slack off when it comes to managing diabetes: A too busy lifestyle, complacency about the possible complications of the disease or lack of education concerning how to manage the disease and avoid complications that can occur.

There are many events that occur in the life of a child that can become complicated by the presence of diabetes including birthday parties, school lunches, sleepovers, and going off to college.

Your child’s doctor can lead you to community resources of diabetic support than can help your family to adjust to life with diabetes and how to help your child manage the disease and cope with all of the events in his or her life which may present special challenges for the diabetic child.

No Child Should Die of Diabetes – World Diabetes Day

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