When most people think about childhood diabetes, type 1 diabetes comes to mind. Childhood diabetes causes many risks and complications no matter if it is type 1 or type 2.  And if type 1 diabetes comes to your mind first when thinking about childhood diabetes, it is for good reason. About 90 percent of diabetes in children under the age of 16 is type 1 diabetes. It is by far the most common in children.

Type 1 diabetes is a condition brought on by the pancreas’ inability to produce insulin. Type 1 childhood diabetes causes the body’s immune system to attack and destroy the insulin producing cells. The only realistic solution for type 1 diabetes is to inject or swallow insulin to replace what the pancreas doesn’t produce. The only upside to being diabetic as a child as opposed to developing it later in life is that children suffering from …