Tulsa: Mom offers warning signs of diabetes

To reduce the number of diabetic ketoacidosis cases among Oklahoma children, University of Oklahoma-Tulsa Pediatric Diabetes Center is launching an awareness campaign to get children diagnosed with Type I diabetes before ketoacidosis sets in.

• A similar campaign in northern Italy in 1992 saw a 75 percent reduction in the rate of diabetic ketoacidosis among children.

• The campaign is expected not only to reduce the condition among children and save lives, but to save on average $11,000 per hospitalization.

• Most diagnoses of Type I diabetes occur in January and February.

• Excessive thirst

• Bed wetting

• Frequent urination

• Weight loss despite increased appetite

• Fatigue

vomiting

• Deep breathing or shortness of breath

• Decreased level of consciousness

Source: OU-Tulsa Pediatric Diabetes Center