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Health

Type 2 Diabetes in Children: A Growing Concern

A generation ago, telling a parent their twelve-year-old had type 2 diabetes was almost unheard of. It's now a regular conversation in paediatric clin...

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Health

Type 1 Diabetes in Teenagers: Managing Transition and Independence

Most parents of children with type 1 diabetes brace for adolescence, and most still find it harder than they were ready for. The technical management...

9 min read

Health

Type 1 Diabetes in Children: Living Well with Insulin Therapy

A type 1 diagnosis in a child usually arrives at speed and out of nowhere — a few weeks of more thirst than usual, more visits to the toilet than usua...

9 min read

Parenting

Gestational Diabetes: Diagnosis, Management, and What It Means for Your Baby

Gestational diabetes is one of the more common complications of pregnancy, and one of the more consistently misunderstood. The diagnosis comes from a...

5 min read

Health

Type 1 Diabetes in Children: Recognising the Signs and Life After Diagnosis

A previously dry 5-year-old starts wetting the bed. He's drinking from the tap, complaining of being tired after school, and his face looks thinner th...

8 min read

Health

Type 1 Diabetes in Young Children: Early Signs and What Diagnosis Means

Type 1 diabetes is uncommon in very young children but it does happen, sometimes in babies under one. The early signs are easy to read as something el...

5 min read