Hmmm. Interesting. My husbands family is Norwegian and my little guy got Diabetes type I in OCT 2009.
The trigger I think was him getting bit on the nose with some bug. The stinger was in his nose for hours and we thought it was a hair it was so hard to see. The U of A hospital had a magnifying glass and discovered it. It started off looking like a mosquito bite and actually puffed up his whole face so he could hardly see. It was after that when that he started eating more, drinking more, waking up in the middle of the night, having gas because he was eating too much for his little body. I thought it was milk intolerance for an entire year until finally enough cells were dead and he was out of diapers for me to really notice he was peeing a lot. Turns out he did have milk intolerance just like my other boy and myself (when I was a kid) however on days he didn’t have any milk products at all he would still wake up in the night. The doctors all said that it was trace milk… like carageenan and whey or things like casein. NOPE! It was Diabetes. After a year of tummy aches and knee aches, it only took two weeks of insulin for the aches to go away forever.
It took a whole year for his pancreas to give up. Poor guy.
Does your doctor do a urine test for regular check ups for your daughter? If so you can sneak a glucose test in there. I have ketone strips that also shows rough blood sugar that you just dip in urine. Results are in 15 seconds. I check my older 5 year old some times with the urine test. Good luck.
Im a little late here on this but my son and daughter were diagnosed with Hand, foot, and mouth disease, a type of coxsackievirus syndrome, in OCT 2004. My son had it really bad … In FEB of 2005 he was in DKA diagnosed with TYPE1 … we got through it… waited till 2009 and boom my daughter was diagnosed at the age of 9… I totally believe that that virus brought out my son’s TYPE 1… I mean we have no body in our family with TYPE 1. the only person with an autoimmue disease was my mom and it was MS… but none of my nephews or nieces have any symptoms however ( this is strange) but all were invetro… not sure if that means anything at all…
My son was dx last October with Type 1 (he is 5 right now). A year before dx he was almost every month during the winter on nebulizer treatments with steroids.
This is interesting. My son was dx at 16 months old. We were told about the viral connections shortly after we found out. He had 3 viruses in the Winter. One in Dec, Jan and the worst in March. He was dx in June. I wish we could know exactly when and how it happened.
