Question

Barbara is a 10-year-old patient with newly diagnosed diabetes. Her mom wants to know why Barbara needs to have injections three to five times a day while her father just has to take pills. Explain the reason for this.

Answer 1

She has diabetes at a further stage then her father. There are usually a couple of steps into diabetes. Normal, Pre-diabetic, clinical diabetes, complications. This is could mean that she is at a different stage of diabetes and therefore need more than just the pills.

Answer 2

To reduce the sugar level and to try make sure that it does not get to the last level which leads to death.