For most people, they cannot distinguish symptoms from signs. They usually suppose that symptoms and signs are just one term used to describe abnormal appearance of a patient. Actually, they are quite different. Although they are both medical terminologies, symptoms and signs have different meanings. Symptoms are referred to what a patient feels, but signs indicate the results that a doctor, especially a physician, gives after examining that patient.
Besides recognizing diabetes symptoms in children, parents also need to know deeply about signs of diabetes in young children so that they can cooperate with the doctors in curing their children’s disease in the best way.
Besides recognizing diabetes symptoms in children, parents also need to know deeply about signs of diabetes in young children so that they can cooperate with the doctors in curing their children’s disease in the best way.
Children with diabetes will feel thirstier than usual, because they have to go for a pee frequently. As usual, urination and thirst go together, so parents must pay attention to their children in order to adjust the daily diets reasonably to balance the level of glucose in blood.
And other symptoms that lead to diabetes are nausea or vomiting, blurred vision, drowsiness, cramps or numbness in the toes and fingers, and abdominal pain. High level of glucose in blood makes the shape of eyes’ lens change, then the refraction. It reduces the ability of eyes’s normal vision. If this situation happens for a long time, eyes will become blind. Changes of eyes’s lens and infraction is supposed to be a sign of diabetes. Cramps or numbness is created by damaged nerve. It is the high amount of glucose in blood that makes nerve nearly devastated. If it lasts for a long time, the nerve cannot be rescued. Weaken nerve also seems to be a sign of diabetes.
In type 1 diabetes, there are common signs such as weaken kidney, high blood glucose level, destroyed protein in muscles, wasted calorie, itchy and dry skin, slow-to-heal wounds, infection.
Signs of type 2 diabetes are hard to find out. They are only diagnosed when a patient with diabetes has some complications such as coronary thrombosis, accident of blood vessels in brain, for-a-long-time skin infection.
The best way is that parents should let their children have blood analysis to know what type of diabetes they are getting. Therefore, the children’s condition is easily controlled.
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