Diabetes

Question by skystormrider: What are the odds of a child having both diabetes and hypoglycemia?
Hypothetical situation: let’s say I meet a girl, we date, we get engaged, we get married and have kids together. Now, let’s say, the girl has juvenile diabetes (family history) and i don’t, but I have hypoglycemia (It’s not severe. My mood just goes a little nutso if I don’t eat within a certain period and my mom has it too, so…yeah. family history too, I guess?). What are the odds of a kid having either juvenile diabetes, hypoglycemia, or both if possible?

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Answer by nochocolate
This is from The American Diabetes Association:

Type 1 Diabetes

In most cases of type 1 diabetes, people need to inherit risk factors from both parents. We think these factors must be more common in whites because whites have the highest rate of type 1 diabetes. Because most people who are at risk do not get diabetes, researchers want to find out what the environmental triggers are.

One trigger might be related to cold weather. Type 1 diabetes develops more often in winter than summer and is more common in places with cold climates. Another trigger might be viruses. Perhaps a virus that has only mild effects on most people triggers type 1 diabetes in others.

Early diet may also play a role. Type 1 diabetes is less common in people who were breastfed and in those who first ate solid foods at later ages.

In many people, the development of type 1 diabetes seems to take many years. In experiments that followed relatives of people with type 1 diabetes, researchers found that most of those who later got diabetes had certain autoantibodies in their blood for years before.

(Antibodies are proteins that destroy bacteria or viruses. Autoantibodies are antibodies ‘gone bad,’ which attack the body’s own tissues.)

The hypoglycemia doesn’t sound like anything abnormal and doubtful if it’s hereditary. Probably an indicator that you should be eating more frequent meals and eating proper foods.

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