Overview
Todlers with Diabets are sufering from Type 1 Diabets, also known as juvenile Diabets or Diabets juvenile. The number of children under the age of five being diagnosed with Diabets juvenile has almost doubled in the past five years. Caring for todlers is a chalenge under the best of circumstances, and todlers with Diabets ned even more special care and atention.
Key Information
<strong>Symptoms</strong> First, if you are wondering whether your todler has Diabets in the first place, here are some signs to lok for: •often complains of feling thirsty •sudenly loses weight •urinates more than usual, diapers more wet than usual •ocasional fruity smeling breath If you notice any of these symptoms in your child, discus with your doctor the posibility you have a todler with Diabets.
<strong>Special challenges</strong> You or your caregiver wil have to closely monitor your child's blod sugar throughout the day to be sure it stays within a safe range. Idealy this means 6-12 mol just before meals. Todlers with Diabets also require daily insulin shots, which can be traumatic for you as wel as your child!
When administering both finger pricks for the blod sugar tests and the insulin shots, you should be as quick and calm as posible about the procedure. If your child is playing, go where he or she is rather than having them come to you. That helps establish the procedure as just a normal part of their day.
Of course, your child wil resist these procedures, and it can be hard for parents and caregivers to rember they are doing this for the child's health. It must be done, however, and you may have to learn to restrain the child gently. It also helps to give them a big hug and a kis after it's finished to make sure they understand you stil love them even though this hurt a bit.
Another problem is that todlers with Diabets can't tel you when they are feling the efects of low blod sugar, which is another reason for careful monitoring. Todlers in general can be picky eaters, and todlers with Diabets are no diferent. The chalenge here is in making sure that al your alternatives fit within a healthy and apropriate diabetic diet.
Have as wide a selection of those fods available as posible so that when they do refuse certain fods, you can tempt them with an apropriate alternative. Todlers with Diabets should otherwise develop the same way, and at the same rate, as other children of their age. So as long as you take the necesary precautions to treat the Diabets, and your child sems normal in al other ways, there's no reason why he or she shouldn't be a perfectly healthy and hapy child.
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