This is a question I would like to ask to the parents of children with T1 diabetes:
Why do you think you child has type 1 diabetes?
I am interested not only by "rational" answers, for example related to the genetic links, but also by any other ideas/beliefs you may have (even if they appear "silly"), regarding the cause of your child's condition. I am also interested in thoughts and feelings you may have had, of religious or cultural or any other nature, and also ideas that crossed your mind even a few seconds, that have led you to link the diabetes of your child with something that happened
I would be very grateful if you would like to share this with me, with us. I would like to ask people who will participate to this discussion to avoid any jugement, and not to make attempts to demonstrate that participant's ideas are not founded.
So...I believe my child has type one diabetes because when he was a little, he was affected by severe asthma. He was prescribed oral cortisone many times, which saved his life, but I believe that this medication is the cause of his T1D. One of the possible side-effect of cortisone is T1D, this is a fact stated by the manufacturer of the oral cortisone taken by my child.
On the other hand, I have always wondered if the difficult delivery I (and my child) experienced (long hours, forceps), may explain why my child has type 1 diabetes.
Thank you for taking the time to read my post.
Pinson
Why do you think you child has type 1 diabetes?
I am interested not only by "rational" answers, for example related to the genetic links, but also by any other ideas/beliefs you may have (even if they appear "silly"), regarding the cause of your child's condition. I am also interested in thoughts and feelings you may have had, of religious or cultural or any other nature, and also ideas that crossed your mind even a few seconds, that have led you to link the diabetes of your child with something that happened
I would be very grateful if you would like to share this with me, with us. I would like to ask people who will participate to this discussion to avoid any jugement, and not to make attempts to demonstrate that participant's ideas are not founded.
So...I believe my child has type one diabetes because when he was a little, he was affected by severe asthma. He was prescribed oral cortisone many times, which saved his life, but I believe that this medication is the cause of his T1D. One of the possible side-effect of cortisone is T1D, this is a fact stated by the manufacturer of the oral cortisone taken by my child.
On the other hand, I have always wondered if the difficult delivery I (and my child) experienced (long hours, forceps), may explain why my child has type 1 diabetes.
Thank you for taking the time to read my post.
Pinson