Argumentative Essay On Diabetes In Children

July 24, 2002 about two weeks after turning seven years old, I fell ill and got admitted into the hospital. Days later I was approached by a doctor and told that I was diagnosed with diabetes. Like many children with juvenile diabetes, my family had no idea to be on the lookout for the symptoms and there are no regular checkups to determine a child’s diabetic status. If my mother would have been warned earlier about the symptoms and the disease itself, we could have taken preventive measures towards stopping the progress or at least slowing the progress down. Therefore, I believe children should be screened for diabetes every single year, and families with children that are borderline diabetics should get help learning how to live with and raise a child that is diabetic.
Diabetes is a disease that affects how the body uses glucose, the main type of sugar in the blood. Glucose, which comes from the foods we eat, is the major source of energy needed to fuel the body 's functions. To use glucose, the body needs the hormone insulin. But in people with …show more content…
Diabetes is most common amongst the minorities. In 2013, it was tested and proved 7.6% of white Americans were diagnosed with Diabetes while 29% of African and Native Americans were diagnosed with Diabetes and It seems to me that because of that diabetes is put at the end of the lists when it is actually one of the most occurring diseases. Diabetes is a disease you cannot grow out of. You do not turn twenty-two and after that it is set in stone that you cannot be diagnosed with diabetes. It also is a disease that has no cure therefore I believe more attention should be put on it because I am sure all people do not want to be put in a situation where you are diagnosed with a disease that you have no cure for and there is no promise that you will live a healthy life with no