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Can my daughter get diabetes

misst1mammy

misst1mammy

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Hi I'm 23 for diabetes when I was 17 no one in my family have got the condition but I have a 1 and a half year old and I'm scared she could end up with it what do people think?
 
misst1mammy said:
Hi I'm 23 for diabetes when I was 17 no one in my family have got the condition but I have a 1 and a half year old and I'm scared she could end up with it what do people think?
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Hi. there are differing views on the hereditary nature of Type 1 diabetes..but I think the following quote may help...

"We are also unsure about whether type 1 diabetes is hereditary or not. While 90 per cent of people who develop type 1 diabetes have no relative with the condition, genetic factors can pre-dispose people to developing type 1 diabetes. Certain gene markers are associated with type 1 diabetes risk. A child born with these will have the same risk of developing type 1 diabetes as a child with siblings with type 1 diabetes. However, having the marker alone is not enough to cause someone to develop type 1 diabetes – it is thought that an additional trigger causes type 1 diabetes to develop."

https://jdrf.org.uk/about-type-1-diabetes/understanding/causes-of-type-1-diabetes/

So, while I am sure there will be somebody happy to cling tot the negative opinions...just a t hey are about thinly based links to cancer and the possibility of hair on the little toes on a Tuesday....personally, I would say NO...and focus on her inheriting all the good stuff you can give her. Never forget that a piece of space debris could land on our heads at any moment (or choose to go out anyway)! ;)
 
Anyone can get diabetes, as you with no family history of diabetes found out. The risk of diabetes for someone without any family history is about 1 in 100 and about 10% of those will be type 1.

For someone whose mum has type 1 and was under 25 when they were born their risk of type 1 goes up, slightly, to 1 in 25.

If you are worried your daughter may get diabetes - there's nothing to say that she will just because you have it - you might want to think about trialnet. It's a clinical trial safety net for anyone aged 3 to 45 who has a sibling child or parent with type 1. They test to see if they have the type 1 antibodies and if they do the keep a close eye on blood sugars so they can be diagnosed early withou the blue lights /dka scenario that usually happens for a type 1 diagnosis and they offer clinical trials to see if they can prevent diagnosis or prolong beta cell function.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/clinical-sciences/migrated/documents/factsheet.pdf
 
@misst1mammy I've got an 18 month old daughter too and have often wondered the same thing (I even had a client of mine tell me the other day that I was selfish to have children because I will give them my "disease" but that's another story!)

I look at it like this. I'm positive chicken pox caused my diabetes so I've paid and had her vaccinated against it to eliminate that risk for her.
If she develops it now then I know there is nothing more I could have done other than deprive her of life in the first place. I shall also be doing the same for the children I plan to have.

Who can look after a diabetic better than a diabetic?

:)
 
Here if you scroll down in this link there is some statistics of type 1 diabetes... seems if one or two of the parents have type 1 diabetes the risk that one's child will also get this condition is ten to twenty times higher than in average population... in that, I dont know the rate ... but still it is not so that one's children will most likely become type 1 diabetic... but the risk is much higher... I think the best is to just live life try not to worry of that and if one's child do get the condition ... then we have no choice but dealing with it... but there could be so many other conditions that a child could also get... depressions... injure the head when falling of a bike and so on.... we can not be prepared for every disaster or disease but if we make life loving and caring and focus on the safe and embracing parenting then we give the best....
http://www.joslin.org/info/genetics_and_diabetes.html

I have always suffered from anxiety and depression some of it inherited from my mother other health conditions like deforming gout from my father... but luckily my daughter looks much more like her father ...and haven´t gotten the childhood depressions I suffered from... life is a gene gambling but not all genes do express fully and are many times moderated from the other parents parts of the genes... ...
I personaly believe it is only a matter of years before children with diabetes will have a pancreas-like out of the body grown thing in-operated to help them manage type 1 and then maybe it will be much easier to live with diabetes type 1 in future... I think perspective looks fine in that matter.... also it is so costly for society to have people going to hospitals and health care personel so often so surely in will be implemented in future...
 
misst1mammy said:
Hi I'm 23 for diabetes when I was 17 no one in my family have got the condition but I have a 1 and a half year old and I'm scared she could end up with it what do people think?
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I'm the only diabetic in my family too. I had my son at the age of 20 and used to test his urine regularly (there was no blood glucose monitoring in those days). He is now nearly 43 and no sign of diabetes.
 
@misst1mammy - I've recently sent you a couple of PMs. It would be good if you would respond please.
 
I am worried about this too.
I'm type 1 and so is my dad. I didn't realise how much the odds increase if it's already in two generations. Makes it more likely to be strongly genetic. I've read statistics as high as my children will now have a 50% chance of developing diabetes and to be honest if I'd realised I wouldn't have had them. It is my fault. I should have looked at the stats more. I read that a mother over the age of 25 when her children are born means the children have a 1% chance of developing diabetes themselves.
But I hadn't realised the odds massively increase if it's already in two generations. I've given my kids a live sentence.

I'm pretty sure my daughter - 21 months - is in the very early stages already.

However if it's only you with it I think your daughter will be fine. I know plenty of people with a parent with type 1 and they have not developed it themselves. So I wouldn't give it too much concern.
 
misst1mammy said:
Hi I'm 23 for diabetes when I was 17 no one in my family have got the condition but I have a 1 and a half year old and I'm scared she could end up with it what do people think?
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TBH any one can get diabetes
 
I would never wish diabetes on anyone.
However, after nearly than 15 years with the condition, I can honestly say that it has never held me back and, when you look at people in the public eye with diabetes, you can see that the skies the limit.
I don't believe there is anything anyone can do to avoid getting diabetes but you can manage it when you do and it doesn't have to have a big impact on your life.
There is a big concern about what you have to do when you have diabetes - needles, injections, watching what you eat, ... - but when you think about what it stops you doing, you realise there's not very much (I've just read a thread about becoming a commercial pilot with T1).
Personally, I think diabetes has made me stronger and more determined - as soon as I was told "diabetes should not stop you doing what you want", I was determined to push this and, so far, haven't found anything I can't do.
In the 15 years I've had the condition, I have seen improvements in availability of treatments such as pump, cgm, faster acting insulin, ... - I see this development improving and even if we don't have a cure for someone who gets diabetes aged 2 today, I believe their life will be even better than ours and diabetes will have less of an impact.
 
I think how you feel about diabetes depends a little on personality type. If you tend towards anxious or perfectionist it's pretty rough. I find every number that's out of range a kick in the teeth and it winds me up. Hence I spend most of my life feeling very very anxious. There's plenty I don't do because of diabetes - sleep more than two hours at a stretch for a start - and it's quite depressing.
In my teenage years I was anorexic because I found if I didn't eat and exercised loads my sugars were pretty perfect. I still took my insulin, but it was a tiny dose because of the above. My hbA1C for those years sat at 5% or just below. Normal. Low normal even.
Now it is around 6% and it bothers me.
 
Hi,

I am a type 1 and also my daughter is a type 1. It has to do with certain genetic markers i think. If you are worried i think they can perform a test whether your daughter has that specific genetic 'code'. But most off spring of type 1's don't get it.
 
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