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Juvenile Diabetes
Recognizing the Signs and Getting Help
By Teri Brown
Treatment for type 2 diabetes focuses mainly on diet and exercise, though medications may be needed as well.
Control of the diabetes is crucial. The goal is to prevent or delay complications or damage to the kidneys, eyes, heart and blood vessels. In most cases, though not all, diabetes can be controlled, and there are more and more breakthroughs being made that will make diabetes easier to manage for your child.
"Although the ultimate goal of research is to find cures for diabetes and its complications, some of this research has contributed to improve the lives of people with diabetes in a more immediate fashion," Feit says. "Self-monitoring of blood glucose is one of the most important advances in diabetes management since the discovery of insulin. And the latest technology in monitoring devices offers a feature that promises significant new benefits for patients: the ability to read glucose continuously (or near continuously) and provide information on blood glucose trends."
Along with a new insulin inhaler, which would decrease or do away with daily shots, these breakthroughs will make it easier for you to help your child take control of and learn to live with diabetes.
