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Diabetes: Balancing act

You can help diabetic children in your setting with forewarning and some understanding of the condition. Maggie Jones reports

You can help diabetic children in your setting with forewarning and some understanding of the condition. Maggie Jones reports

Diabetes mellitis is a condition in which the amount of glucose in the blood is not controlled properly, and is either too high or two low. About 15,000 children under the age of 15 in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes. In diabetes, the hormone, insulin, which regulates the level of glucose in the blood, is either not produced at all (Type 1 diabetes) or is produced in too small quantities, or does not work properly (Type 2 diabetes). Type 1 diabetes is found in children or young people, while Type 2 usually occurs in people over 40. Type 1 diabetes is thought to be an auto-immune disease, in which the body produces antibodies which attack and destroy its own insulin-producing cells.

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