emma04
24-04-2013, 09:55 AM
Just wondering if any of you have experienced a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes in your own child??
My dd is 2yrs 4months and over the past few weeks has been drinking a lot but, how much is a lot?? - my eldest drank very little as a toddler and still has to be reminded now she's 8 so I have no idea what is excessive and what's normal.
Anyway she was toilet trained over a month ago and was dry for over 2 weeks, before she started wetting herself again, now I know this can happen sometimes. However, she is back to being dry again, but must use the potty at least 4 times every hour and produces a fair amount of urine each time (not just a token drop! As they sometimes do as a habit) She also uses the potty twice in the night (she gets up to use the potty and I always get up to help her) and her pull up is sometimes wet too.
When she wakes in the morning she has a beaker of milk and most of the time two beakers of very dilute squash immediately afterwards, this is what i find the most strange because afterwards she wee's almost every 15min for the next hour or two.
Throughout the day she drinks from a fairly large sports bottle and this is refilled twice, and she has s few drinks from an open beaker.
I'm struggling to decide whether or not to go to the GP, as a few weeks ago she had a urine sample done (i thought she had an infection due to wetting herself frequently) this sample was free from infection and I'm sure the GP would have seen if there was any glucose related issues with it??
Any advice appreciated as I don't want the GP to think i'm nuts!:blush:
My dd is 2yrs 4months and over the past few weeks has been drinking a lot but, how much is a lot?? - my eldest drank very little as a toddler and still has to be reminded now she's 8 so I have no idea what is excessive and what's normal.
Anyway she was toilet trained over a month ago and was dry for over 2 weeks, before she started wetting herself again, now I know this can happen sometimes. However, she is back to being dry again, but must use the potty at least 4 times every hour and produces a fair amount of urine each time (not just a token drop! As they sometimes do as a habit) She also uses the potty twice in the night (she gets up to use the potty and I always get up to help her) and her pull up is sometimes wet too.
When she wakes in the morning she has a beaker of milk and most of the time two beakers of very dilute squash immediately afterwards, this is what i find the most strange because afterwards she wee's almost every 15min for the next hour or two.
Throughout the day she drinks from a fairly large sports bottle and this is refilled twice, and she has s few drinks from an open beaker.
I'm struggling to decide whether or not to go to the GP, as a few weeks ago she had a urine sample done (i thought she had an infection due to wetting herself frequently) this sample was free from infection and I'm sure the GP would have seen if there was any glucose related issues with it??
Any advice appreciated as I don't want the GP to think i'm nuts!:blush: