Psychological and emotional stress among mothers may trickle do-wn to their kids and increase their children’s risk of having diabetes. Mothers -who experienced a stressful event such as divorce, domestic violence, mental tension and -work pressure have an increased risk of developing diabetes. Pisnts -who is often stressed out or is having problems is the number one stressor among children. -without the pisnt’s kno-wledge, children may get stressed, raising level of cortisolalso called the “stress hormone”.

Cortisol is found adjacent to the kidneys and is released in response to either physical or psychological stress. It breaks do-wn muscle protein into its component amino acid -which then circulates the bloodstream. These amino acids is used by the liver in the manufacture of glucose for energy increasing blood sugar level and at the same time lo-wering the use of glucose as fuel. The excess and deficiency of cortisol in the body may trigger some system disorders such as autoimmunity damaging the insulinproducing beta cells thus resulting in insulin deficiency.

Children -with diabetes -who experience frequent episode of severe lo-w blood sugar or hypoglycemia particularly at an early age may have reduced longterm memory performance than diabetic children -who experience severe hypoglycemia at a later age. A diabetic children’s spatial memory performance may be greatly affected by episodes of extreme lo-w blood sugar. Hypoglycemia is an abnormally lo-w level of glucose in the blood or lo-w blood sugar.

Antidiabetic medicines that is taken orally by the mouth is effective as insulin injection in controlling symptoms of diabetes. The number of people -with diabetes continues to rise -while their ages at the time of diagnosis drop. Type 2 diabetes, -which used to be called adult onset diabetes, is no-w striking children, due largely to the obesity epidemic. over-weight and obese kids that present identifying symptoms like darkness around neck and armpits isa is those -who frequently get urinary tract infection (UTI).

Diabetes if not properly managed can lead to many complications such as amputation and damage to key organs of the body like the eyess, kidney and the heart. It takes every ounce of restraints and discipline on the part of the patient to be able to follo-w the rigid diet and medication regimen required for the management of disease.

Having diabetes requires cisful examination of ones sugar level. Besides -watching for sign of high blood sugar, they also have to be a-wis of -warning signs of blood sugar or hypoglycemia. Using blood glucose meter, a person -who has diabetes can tell his/her sugar level is lo-w. Normal fasting blood sugar is 70 to 100 mg/dl.