this is a new one…

[Anonymous]

Okay ladies, here’s a new one. Stop me if you think I’m crazy or overly paranoid. Could an 6 month old infant have diabetes? Here is some of Nicholas’s symptoms that could be diabetic related:

a. Excessive urination. Nikki wets through a diaper easily (within 1-2 hours).

he is always soaked and so are his clothes. At first I though maybe it was the diapers. But this even occurs with the Huggies Supremes and Pampers Cruisers $$$ diapers. Is this a boy thing? I am a newbie at this male gender thing. Excessive urination a side effect of Prevacid?

b. Excessive hunger. He still eats every 2-3 hours and is now eating 6 ounces. On Elecare. No thickening.

c. Excessive sleepyness. He still wakes up at night a few times, but mostly b/c I don’t let him “cry it out” (softie, I know). Once I rock him or feed him, he goes right back to sleep. He really sleeps for about 16-18 hours per day. He can still only be awake for about 1 1/2 hours before being really tired. He also wakes due to being wet (see above).

d. Fussiness. Okay, so this could be anything. But, his scopes were clear. No abnormalities, biopsies good. Prevacid and Carafate. He does spit up, but the spit up itself does not seem to bother him. He’s only bothered by it when he chokes on it. Otherwise he either spits up all over himself and continues on with whatever, or spits up and swallows it back down. He rarely cries when silent refluxing unless it makes him choke.

He had been on rice cereal since 1 month. I recently took him off of it. Now that I research it, the rice cereal has been linked to type 1 diabetes if started too early. Please tell me I’m nuts or over-analyzing the situation. I’m really just trying to figure this out. Thanks!

kdub2008-06-10 19:08:32

[Anonymous]

I think it is a simple urine test to see how much protein is in the urine? Help me ladies if this is wrong. We questioned diabetes on Dylan, so we did the urine test in the dr. office to rule it out. You could just put one of those bags on his little thingy and capture some urine and bring it to the dr’s office to get tested. If nothing else, it is an easy test and they can put your mind at ease……

[hellbennt]

I agree w/ Ann Marie.

also, are you tucking his penis down when you put the diaper on? silly question, but if it’s pointing up you’re more likely to see pee come out the top of the diaper.

[Anonymous]

Okay, so his “thingy” isn’t really big enough to point any direction. I actually thought of that. If I look at it though, it’s sucked down into his skin and doesn’t stick out from his skin more than like 1/4 or 1/2 of an inch. So I guess that the urine just goes straight out.

LOL, I can’t believe I’m talking about penis’s. I hope my ds never reads this, he’ll kill me

kdub2008-06-10 20:04:02

[Anonymous]

From a dietitians standpoint… I would def get him tested. The youngest I have personally seen is 18 months but that is not to say it couldn’t happen sooner. I would ask if it runs in your family but that deals more with type 2 and he is WAY too young for that. You can do the urine test… if his diapers are as wet as you say, you may actually be able to take a diaper into the office and they can check for protein/sugar/ketones in his urine… if they come back high then they are going to want to check his blood sugar level. Since it sounds like he eats so often, getting a fasting level would be difficult, but you could ask them to do a Hemoglobin A1C.. this measures what his sugars have been running over a 3 month period (it is a %) and that is what we use to diagnose most people in the hospital. For adults you want it below 6%… probably the same in children,but I am not 100% sure.. Those are the steps I would take. What his weight been doing? Wt loss is another trigger, but with his reflux who knows. I would be curious to find out. Keep me posted. HTH.

[Anonymous]

type I diabetes also runs in families—–it is piggyback on the same gene as celiac disease.

if you are worried about it—asking for testing would be a good idea. even if it shows nothing, you will have gained peace of mind which is worth it’s weight in gold.

i have heard of a child being diagnosed at a year old. i asked how they figured it out in a child that young. i was told that the baby had become dehydrated—-but i’m sure there can be a wide range of symptoms.

my brother has type I diabetes. he did not develope it until he was about 23 years old—-of course, he was old enough to say, “i’m having to pee too often and my eyes are bothering me.”

Beth—do the diabetic patients you deal with get tested for celiac disease on a fairly regular basis? i have heard that when people have celiac and type I diabetes that they are usually diagnosed with diabetes first.

[Anonymous]

I would definitley mention this to his doc and ask to have him tested being that it’s such a simple test (urine) and it would be best to find out sooner or later, and even better to rule it out and ease your mind.

On another note, my little guy used to consistently pee up and out the top of his diapers, always on the ride side. He always woke up soaking wet. I realized with time that it was not an issue of volume with him, it was just that his “thingy” always pointed up and to the right when he wet. Tucking it down did not work (stubborn ). What did work was to diaper him in diapers that were a size too big so that they rose up above his navel. At night I’d put two diapers on him, a smaller one and then a bigger one on top. This worked most of the time.

Anyway, good luck. I sure hope it’s a similar problem to what my son had, and not diabetes, but I do think it’s wise to have him checked.

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