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How long have you or your family member lived with diabetes?

February 17, 2020

How long have you or your family member lived with diabetes? February 12 – 19, 2020 Children with Diabetes is an organization that takes care of families with diabetes at all ages and stages, and our poll really highlighted the diagnosis diversity of our respondents.  About half of the folks who took this poll have […]

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Are you/your family member with diabetes using a Hybrid Closed-Loop System for diabetes management?

February 1, 2022

Are you/your family member with diabetes using a Hybrid Closed-Loop System for diabetes management? January 26, 2022-February 2, 2022 Automated Insulin Delivery is something that people with diabetes have been dreaming of for decades. Thanks to the advent of technologies such as the continuous glucose monitor (CGM), this dream has become more of a reality […]

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How long have you (or your family member) had diabetes?

October 9, 2019

How long have you (or your family member) had diabetes? October 2 – 9, 2019 When CWD started, the initial goal was to support parents who were raising children with diabetes.  And over the last 25 years, the Children with Diabetes mission has grown up with our families, taking care of kids and adults with […]

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Can just one member of the family have something like a spontaneous mutation which would cause that person to have Type 1 diabetes?

May 8, 2000
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Can a family member be a donor for pancreas cells? How old should you be to be eligible for this?

September 11, 2000
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Is there a genetic screen available to a member of the public who is married to someone with high risk of being a carrier for Wolfram Syndrome? If not, how long might the couple need to wait for such a test to become available?

November 11, 2000
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I have a family member who is now 19 years old and has type 1 diabetes all his life. I was wondering what kind of effects type 1 diabetes has on life span.

January 22, 2000
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My daughter complains of being tired, but has a problem sleeping and she said she starts shaking in midmorning. She prefers a high carbohydrate diet. Because we have family member with type 2 diabetes, I have checked some blood sugars 30 minutes after meals which have been 100-166 mg/dl [5.6-9.2 mmol/L] Is this abnormal?

November 22, 2001
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A family member is very worried about her infant daughter developing type 1 diabetes. She has only breast fed her seven month old, and on the recommendation of her pediatrician, has avoided feeding cow’s milk formula because of a possible increased risk. Her baby doesn’t tolerate soy. Her doctor wants to test the baby for some antibody when the baby is about nine months or so old so, to see if it’s “safe” to start feeding cow’s milk. What test could possibly determine that?

May 27, 2001
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We had a child abuse situation in which a five year old male had been physically abused by a family member, and his meter blood sugar was 575 mg/dl [31.9 mmol/L] by meter, and he had no history of diabetes. The Emergency Room physician about his elevated blood sugar said that this was caused by stress. Is this possible?

May 26, 2001
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