Juvenile Diabetes Symptoms

Juvenile diabetes symptoms or diabetes type 1 symptoms are generally present in Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM) which begins before age 40; peak incidence is around 14 years old.  

Juvenile diabetes usually occurs in children and is the result of an auto-immune attack on the pancreas. 

Juvenile diabetes leaves these children without any insulin; therefore they must take insulin to survive. Juvenile diabetes may account for 5% to 10% of all cases of diabetes. 

Symptoms of Juvenile Diabetes: Some patients develop diabetes type 1 late in life with a first episode of ketoacidosis occurring at age 50 or even later in rare circumstances. 

These patients, which because of their age, should have diabetes type 2 or Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM), are not obese. 

Onset of symptoms of Juvenile Diabetes or diabetes type 1 may be brutal with: 

•  Excessive urination 

•  thirst 

•  increased appetite 

•  Weight loss developing rapidly and abnormally. 

Factors which can revealed diabetes type 1 disease 

Sometimes, juvenile diabetes symptoms are revealed by ketoacidosis following surgery or during an intercurrent illness .Diabetes type 1 symptoms vary from normal weight to wasted depending on the length of time between the onset of juvenile diabetes symptoms, the diagnosis of the disease,and the start of the treatment. 

Monitoring Data revealed 

Monitoring patients with juvenile diabetes symptoms show: 

•  a plasma insulin level low or immeasurable 

•  a glucagons level elevated. 

The nutrition,the vitamin supplementation, the diet play an important role in the prevention and the treatment of diabetes disease.But once juvenile diabetes symptoms have developed, insulin therapy is required.