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A Unique Child: Health - Diabetes risk rises
Nursery World,
3 July 2008
Early years practitioners may need to learn how to manage the diabetic condition of a child in their care. Ruth Thomson reports.
A sharp rise in emergency admissions of children for diabetes treatment has raised concerns that the condition is going undiagnosed or being poorly managed. According to the latest statistics from the NHS Information Centre, emergency admissions for under-18s with diabetes rose by 8 per cent to 3,300 in the year to March 2007. Of further concern was the high number of children being admitted with diabetic keto-acidosis (DKA), a life-threatening condition occurring when a person's blood glucose levels...
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