FOR THE CHILD OR YOUTH WHO HAS RECENTLY DEVELOPED DIABETES
All people need good health to enjoy life and do the things they want. When you first found out you had diabetes it may have seemed to you that you might lose some of this good health. But you will not.
Diabetes may have made you ill when it first developed. Perhaps you got very thirsty and found yourself passing a lot of urine. Perhaps you actually felt sick and lost weight.
Once treatment has started, however, you will no longer be sick, and will return to normal health. This treatment will allow you to keep healthy and to be no different from your friends in how you are and in what you can do.
You will have to continue looking after yourself, of course, because nobody can actually cure diabetes yet.
Once you get used to it, the treatment is easy. It soon becomes part of your life, and the daily injection of insulin and the regulation of meals will be rather like brushing your hair or cleaning your teeth: you will not need to think about it much.
Even so, with the many new developments that are happening because of research, the care of your diabetes will be even easier in the future. Perhaps even a cure may be possible one day.
Try to learn as much about diabetes as possible. It will be interesting and help you to understand how to look after yourself. This way you will be healthy because diabetes is not a disease in the way measles or influenza are.
Diabetes should not interfere with school or a career or your job. You will almost certainly be able to lead the same life and play the same sport and have the same friends you would if you did not have diabetes.
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