Question from Middle Point, Ohio, USA:

My two year old daughter was recently taken into the emergency room because she was having a difficult time breathing, she had a cold and a runny nose, but her fever had gone up to 102 degrees, and she was coughing and her little heart was beating so fast. The pediatrician on-call recommended I take her into the emergency room. At the hospital, the physician on-call ordered blood work and chest x-rays and breathing treatments.She had bronchial pneumonia and was also given a steroid to help her breathing. Her blood tests came back and the doctor questioned whether diabetes ran in the family. When we questioned why, they said her glucose was up to 215 mg/dl [11.9 mmol/L]. They ran another test later after her last breathing treatment which was 336 mg/dl [18.7 mmol/L]. She was admitted to the hospital and her sugar, tested four hours later was 114 mg/dl [mmol/L], and, four hours after that, it was 89 mg/dl [4.9 mmol/L]. Subsequently, her highest reading then at the hospital was 84 mg/dl [4.7 mmol/L]. The doctor says that she has "impression hyperglycemia". We have been instructed to test her "fasting" sugar, to keep records, and we are to return to doctor two weeks from the when she left. Since we have been home, her highest test has been 84 mg/dl [4.7 mmol/L] in the morning. Something I am worried about is that at night now twice she has had screaming fits and says that her legs and arms hurt, I gave her gas drops and Tylenol, and finally after crying very hard for about an hour off and on, she fell asleep and slept for the night. Does this is something to do with the diabetes?