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martinsoton

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Hey everyone

As a type 1 diabetic how much greater is the chance i will pass this disease on if i have kids compared to a non diabetic?
 
From my own reading, It seems that T2 is strongly genetic, but T1 is less so.
However my T1 husband's grandmother also was diabetic.( probably T2 though ) She died of diabetes complications.
there are no others in his family
whereas, I am T2 and the 4th in a direct line.
 
I was diagnosed T1 in August 1976 (or it might have been 1975 :oops: ) in September of the same year my elder brother was also diagnosed T1. It had nver been in the family before and I now have 2 daughters ages 19 & 21 and they show no signs of T1, my brother has 4 children and they are all ok too

Lorna
 
Hi Martin,
I know of 3 T1 fathers who have children who have developed T1, but wouldn't have known this unless i'd went to a Diabetic kids weekend. My own son is T1 and the only other member in my family is my Mums sister, so therefore my Aunt. In my opinion, todays world, enviroment has as much to play with diabetes as genetics does. A lot of conditions are on the increase, asthma, autism, even hayfever, and all of these are as much genetic as they are enviromental. Gives you more to think about, but i wouldn't let it stop you from having children. Having a child with diabetes isn't the easiest thing in the world, but neither is it the hardest,
Take care,
Suzi x
 
I think it's something like a 0.5% higher chance of having diabetes if your mother was diabetic at the time of the pregnancy.

It's genetic, and envirmomental, and chance.
A study showed that in identical twins, 50% of them became diabetic when the other one did.
Type 2 is much more likely to have a strong family history, but there is also much more you can do to prevent type 2.

I've been diabetic, type 1 since i was 9, i'm now 24 with a 14 month old daughter. She was a dull pregnancy, apart from an unrelated heart problem.
Good luck :)

Lol - Edit fixed. Thanks hehehe
 
14 with a 14 month old child!

Just had to check out your profile to double check, but relised you were meant to put 24 :D
 
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