How are children with diabetes type 2 cared for differently than adults?
When children get type 2 diabetes, they are treated similarly to adults with certain differences. First like with adults, they are treated with changes in lifestyle and with improvements in their exercise and hopefully encouraging them to develop patterns that would be healthy for the rest of their lives. But many, many of the drugs that might work in children with type 2 diabetes have not yet been studied in children with diabetes. So a lot of the pills for adults haven’t been tested in kids. So kids are actually treated more with drugs like insulin sooner than adults with type 2 might be treated because we just haven’t studied those drugs in children. There are big research studies that are ongoing that are looking at how to treat children with type 2 diabetes but it is actually a pretty new phenomena because up until the last 10 years or so we haven’t had lots of children with type 2 diabetes buy we are learning. If a kid has type 2 diabetes as well as type 1 I would really recommen
