I was 10 and the ONLY type 1 in my family. I have a distant relative like a great aunt, and 1 other aunt who were both type 2's and diagnosed much later in life. I firmly believe mine is autoimmune as I had the flu a few months prior to diagnosis and never really could recover from it. I don't know anyone personally who was extremely young at diagnosis. I know one other girl a couple years younger than me, but we seem to have been diagnosed around the same time. Going on 28 years for me and so far, minimal problems. I have a little neuropathy in my left foot, BUT its not diabetes related, its due from injuries from a car accident.
My son was diagnosed at 14 months. No type 1 diabetes or autoimmune in either side of the family, so it was pretty shocking. He started pumping with the Omnipod and wearing the Dexcom at 18 months.
I know of another 14 month old, a 12 month old, Phil Southerland was 7 months old, and a friend of mine told me about a 4 month old (it was type 1 too - not neo natal diabetes).
I don't really know. I guess I was in my 30's when diagnosed with type 2. I never really paid any attention to it when I became more and more sick. I had a sharp doctor who referred me to an endocrinologist, and I was re-diagnosed as a type 1.5 (LADA) at age 55. I have little insulin resistance and many, many antibodies that don't care for my pancreas at all.
Insulin and life are good.
I was 33, just diagnosed this year. I actually don't know anyone else in person who has diabetes except my pump salesperson, and I'm not sure how old he was when diagnosed.
dx'd at 29
I was diagnosed at 17, and one of my friends was 3. His mom does diabetes research in Ontario, and the youngest person that she has ever worked with was 6 months old.
Hey thank you for responding. My son has been showing some of the signs and I have been testing his blood sugar but getting strange results. He is 14 months old tomorrow and I worry about him. I've had it since I was 16 but my doctor's think I had it much longer than that but was in a honeymoon period for awhile.
I really hope that is not the case, and my heart goes out to you because obviously type 1 diabetes in a little one is just so hard. My prayers and thoughts go out to you.
Jack had a stomach ache and was throwing up a lot, so we went to the ER on a Sunday to get an IV to rehydrate him. Little ones can get dehydrated pretty quickly, and he was always so skinny (only 18 pounds), so we were going to get him an IV to perk him back up so he could get over the virus. The doctor said "I don't think there is anything else wrong but let me just run some labs to be sure". He came back two hours later saying that Jack's BG was 268 and that he was a diabetic, and they started rolling him out of the room. Of course I melted into a puddle on the floor as they took my perfect little baby away to be hooked up to machines and needles for the next 5 days.
He was not in DKA - he literally had a stomach bug - and we found out completely random that he was a diabetic. His blood sugar hit 500 that night, and it was very lucky that we were already in the hospital. It was caught very early though - his A1C was only 5.7% - so he honeymooned for over a year after that.
I don't think the BG's will help you much, unless of course you are seeing 200+ numbers. Also the A1C is not very indicative yet either, unless of course it's over 6. Jack was actually diagnosed based on the amount of insulin he had in his system - zero - and he had anti-GAD antibodies present (over 250, normal is 0-5), insulin antibodies present (26, normal is 0-.4), and islet cell antibodies present (1:16, normal is 1:4).
If you are concerned, I would suggest running the above blood tests on a regular basis. Little ones can get into DKA much more quickly than others, and with all the growth and development going on in their brains etc it can affect them in much more profound ways. I know of someone who had a little one and who didn't know and it dragged on and on, and her infant ended up in a coma for two weeks. Somehow she recovered though.
If you find out that your baby is diabetic, feel free to contact me anytime. The little ones pose some special challenges and it's hard to find support - medical or otherwise - that has any clue on how to manage an infant / toddler with type 1 diabetes.
Disclaimer - I am not a doctor or medical professional, just someone with my own experience on handling type 1 diabetes in an infant.
I was 21 months
I was diagnosed at 12, my brother at 4.
i was not yet 3 when i was diagnosed in 1936. that's 76 years ago. wow.
Your 76 years are amazing! Congrats to you.
I was 19.as for the youngest I’ve seen was an 8 months pregnant women with unborn child diagnosed with diabetes.(don’t worry the child was born healthy and is doing fine)
I was 10, and my friend was diagnosed at 3
24 years old.