What A Parent Should Know To Manage Juvenile Diabetes

When your child has been diagnosed with diabetes, it can cause you to be upset and worry. It can overwhelm you. However, you have to be strong for your child. The best thing you can do is learn all you can about this condition in children and how you can help your child cope with it.

Juvenile diabetes is also known as Type 1 diabetes in children. This happens when the pancreas can no longer produce insulin. You will need to replace the insulin in your child. This means you will need to learn how give your child insulin injections. If your child is old enough, you will need to teach your child how to give shots to himself. Insulin can also be delivered by an insulin pump. The pump is about as big as a cell phone. Your child wears this on the outside of his body. A reservoir of insulin is connect to a catheter by a tube. The catheter is inserted under the abdomen's skin.