Question
What is juvenile diabetes? I recently read a report saying that diabetes is one of the most common diseases in our country, and there is currently no cure, so it has accumulated a large number of patients. I thought that only older people would get this disease, but the report mentioned that children can also get diabetes, but I don’t know what juvenile diabetes is.
Answer
There may be several reasons for children to develop diabetes, including viral infections (such as colds, mumps), dietary factors (it is recommended to start feeding milk after 8 months old to reduce the risk), and genetic factors. The medical community believes that neonatal diabetes is related to genetic factors, and the parents’ genes may not have shown up, but they manifest in the child. In addition, if babies lack vitamin D supplementation, their risk of developing diabetes is more than 7 times higher than that of children who receive vitamin D supplementation.