How to know that your child is diabetic clinically ?

The are many manifestations and signs in any diabetic patient , the age of the biabetic child to be manifested clinicaly is usually at the early school age and rare before that , which is called the type 1 diabetes mellitus or insulin dependent diabetes mellitus ( as the treatment is essentially insulin ) . From those

manifestations are :

1-Increase the water intake and increase in the frequency os micturition which is the most common presentation in the disease .

2-Secondary to the increased frequency in micturition the child may suffer from nocturnal enuresis which is urination during night

3-Secondary infections as skin infection is also common in the diabetic patients but it is less common than 1 .

4-The child first presentation is usually not the above manifestations although they are common , the first presentation in about 25% of the cases is :

Vomiting and abdominal pain and may be dehydration and shock in late stages , which is known clinically as diabetic ketoacidosis .   
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