Have your child’s symptoms been worrying you? Are you wondering if she’s just run down of if there’s something more serious at work? You think they might be symptoms of juvenile diabetes?

Diabetes is a double edged sword in the US. On the one-hand the symptoms for diabetes can be drastic. It’s the seventh leading cause of death, and the leader in causing blindness and kidney disease (it also can often lead to cardiac problems and others).

Paradoxically, it’s one of the most straightforward diseases to treat. And one of the few that you can largely reverse yourself.

So what are the symptoms of juvenile diabetes you should be looking for? I’ll give you the quick 5 and a warning you need to read at the end:

1. Your child wants to drink all the time (because their urine is absorbing all the excess water to dilute the excess glucose).

2. Your child wants to pee all the time (because her urine is absorbing water making her bladder full).

3. Your child is always hungry (because her cells can’t absorb glucose well so they are always sending signals that she’s starving.)

4. Your child is always tired (not sleepy, fatigued, because glucose can’t get into her cells to fuel her muscles).

5. Your child is losing weight (because she’s low on insulin which is a builder hormone and her cells are breaking down her muscle and fat trying to find some energy somewhere).

Here’s the warning I promised:

There?are peculiar symptoms of juvenile diabetes in addition to the normal symptoms for diabetes. And they’re deadly serious (of course, always consult your doctor). Your child may have bouts of nausea, stomach aches, and vomiting.

This happens when they’ve had a lot of fat breakdown in their bodies. Ketone bodies begin to accumulate in the blood and spill into the urine.

At the same time blood glucose can rise to dangerously high levels - 300 mg/dl or much higher. Your child can lose fluids, potassium, and sodium, and fall unconscious. In extreme cases, it can lead to death.

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