Dr Sheharyar Quraishi, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist talks about the situations in which Type 1 Diabetes is diagnosed - either with symptoms or in families as it is often generically related.
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So, type 1 diabetes is normally diagnosed with either an emergency when people would present with the symptoms that we discussed previously, where they would lose a lot of weight suddenly, they'll be able patients experience asking a lot of urine. They also experience drinking loads of water, have infections. It might be the first presentation within the family, but most commonly there is a positive family history and people would experience this in their teens. And there is a high genetic element to it, which means that within the same family, people developing the same symptoms would mean that you were suspected early and make a diagnosis. But the most common symptoms would remain a huge amount of weight loss, being able to drink a lot of water, unnecessarily being passed a lot of urine, not being able to sleep at night because of infections and in rare circumstances life-threatening conditions requiring hospitalization.
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