In England, 3,300 children were admitted to hospital Accident and Emergency units in England last year with a potentially fatal diabetes complication.
These are the health charity, Diabetes UK, figures.
This condition, is called diabetic ketoacidosis, and occurs when the body’s cells are not able to get enough glucose as levels of glucose in the blood are too high.
The body starts to use stores of fat as an alternative source of energy and this then produces an acidic by-product known as ketones .
Ketones are harmful and the body tries to get rid of them by excreting them in urine.
Diabetic ketoacidosis causes vomiting, nausea, stomach pain and rapid breathing. Should it be left untreated, it can lead to a coma and even death.
Anyone developing this complication needs hospital treatment.
Diabetes UK states that children accounted for about a quarter of the 13,465 emergency admissions for diabetic ketoacidosis during the year upto March 2009. The numbers of admissions due to this complication have gone up by nearly 9% since 2006.
Diabetes UK has expressed its concerned as diabetic ketoacidosis is becoming more prolific due to type 1 diabetes not being diagnosed early enough.
The charity has stated that the UK has the fourth highest incidence of type 1 diabetes in children in Europe as well as the lowest number of children attaining good diabetes control.
Astounding Number of Children with Diabetes Complication in Hospital A and E
Tue, 09 Feb 2010
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