JAKARTA – Reason diabetes in children must be known by parents. Because health problems due to increased blood sugar are generally type 1 diabetes.
Not only children, infants, toddlers and adults also have the potential to be attacked. Usually this diabetes tends to be difficult to cure. Children who have diabetes must need insulin injections every day.
Unlike type 2 diabetes which occurs due to lifestyle, type 1 diabetes is caused by the pancreas not producing any insulin.
Summarizing from the Cleveland Clinic, Thursday (20/7/2023) type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune reaction in which the body destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin.
Causes of Diabetes in Children
Currently the cause of type 1 diabetes is still being researched, but it is believed that there are two possibilities, including:
1. Genes (inherited from the family)
2. Viruses or triggers in the environment
Symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes in Children
Symptoms of type 1 diabetes can appear weeks or months after enough pancreatic beta cells have been destroyed. Symptoms can be severe when they appear, including:
2023-07-20 01:26:11
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