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Other Illnesses

I have a 7 year old who has been having a problem with frequent urination. She has two aunts and a cousin with diabetes, who are also Hispanic. She recently had her urine and blood checked and there wasn’t any sugar in the urine and the blood was 90.

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My two year nine month son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes eight months ago, and recently was screened for celiac disease, even though he has no symptoms. Since one of the antibodies is negative, is this still a positive test for celiac disease?

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For the past year, my daughter has been complaining of foot pain, dizziness, and nausea. Her endocrinologist doesn’t feel that they are diabetes related, and suggested we see our family doctor. He has ordered many blood tests and scans, but nothing has shown up. What should our next step be?

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Recently, I was out in the sun and I got a really bad sunburn, and later that night, I got a horrible headache and I felt sick to my stomach. My mom thinks it may have had something to do with my diabetes. Is that possible?

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Last year, my 23 year old sister was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and they removed her entire pancreas. Since then, she has not had to have one insulin shot, or taken any sort of blood sugar controlling drugs. She tests her blood sugar regularly, and not once has it been even the slightest bit high. Have you ever heard of this?

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My 12 year old daughter is thin but muscular and seems healthy in most respects, except that her triglyceride levels have been high for two years and are climbing (now up to 178 mg/dl), and her HDL is low (32 mg/dl). was advised to put her on a high-protein diet, and I think that’s wrong, especially considering her age. Advice for diet resources for thin children with high triglycerides would be helpful since most of what I have found deals with overweight children.

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I read a book which said that children with hypoglycemia cannot take proteolytic enzymes. Why?

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I was told I had diabetes two days after school was out. Why do I get headaches all the time? Is it good to take aspirin every time?

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I think I have developed an allergy to fish. Is this somehow related to diabetes, since allergies are immune system reactions, and diabetes can be autoimmune in nature? I thought it was necrobiosis lipoidica, but recently I visited a dermatologist who told me it was nummular eczema

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My son is 13 years old and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes several months ago. Two weeks ago his hands started peeling from the fingertips down, and his feet are also peeling. His doctor did not think that this was related to his diabetes, however he has never had this problem before.

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