Results of "Questionnaire regarding Childhood Diabetes"
Respondent statistics:
Total respondents:
116
Male: 6
Female: 44
No data: 66
Average age: 35.2 years
Summary of results
1. Gender of the child
2. Age of the child
3. Place of living
4. How old was the child when diabetes was diagnosed?
5. Was the child going to any of the following places before the disease?
6. Were there any lifestyle changes or stress factors before the symptoms appeared?
Other answers:
  • starting school. 3 days after
  • my son is a musician, he plays sax with a band onstage - that is probably stressful
  • Baby sister was born and Daddy deployed
  • divorce
  • physical anomaly which required weekly intervention from 8months to 1year
7. Did the child have any virus disease before the symptoms appeared?
Other answers:
  • ear infection
  • flu
  • Illness, with high fever several weeks prior.
  • Coxsackie A
  • ear infection
  • coxsaki virus
  • started with cold that developed into sinus infection
  • Well mono 1 year before
  • Some kind of stomach virus
  • uti
  • Tummy Bug
  • Croup twice 3 months prior
  • croup
  • Strep throat a number of times but 1 yr before dx
  • had had a nasty cold
  • Bronchitis
  • fever
  • I don't know, but he caught something about 1-2months before dx
  • Slight cold/hard to get rid of warts
  • She has 2 colds back to back 2 weeks apart and an ear infection which she took antiboitics for the 1st time in her life.
  • Croup
  • croup - treated with prednizone
8. Which type of diabetes does the child have?
9. Does the child get insulin therapy?
10. Do you use any alternative treatment?
Other answers:
  • carbohydrate restricted diet
  • yoga, reiki
  • Alph Lipoc Acid, B-1, Fish oil, Probiotics
  • We see a homeopath
11. What kind of results did you get using alternative treatment?
12. What kind of vaccines had the child received? (multiple answers possible)
Other answers:
  • IPV
  • vaccine names: NeisVac-C / Infarix Hexa / Infarix hib / Priorix SC
  • DTaP
13. How much time passed between the last vaccine the child had and the first symptoms?
14. Did any of the vaccines cause unexpected reaction in the child?
Other answers:
  • DPT, much earlier, caused fever and irritabilty for days, afterwards lost certain cognitive abilities
  • HPV - hard to get rid of warts
  • Degradation of health
  • Seasonal Flu shot caused tick/twitches
15. Did the child get any inhalation steroids (e.g. asthma therapy)?
16. What kind of baby bottles did your child use when she/he was a baby?
17. Was there any complication caused by the diabetes? (multiple answers possible)
Other answers:
  • minor nerve damage that most doctors don't even test for
  • currently has high blood pressure, but cannot say it's directly from diabetes
  • DKA at diagnosis
  • DKA
18. Was the child overweight?
19. Does the child play any sports or exercise?
20. Did anyone in the family have diabetes?
21. Who had diabetes in the family?
Other answers:
  • great-grandparent
  • parent and grandparent both type 2
  • Paternal nephew
  • aunt
  • 3 Great Grandparents- Type 2
22. Did the brother or sister have any ISA (Islet Cell Antibodies) test?
Other answers:
  • Don't know
  • no siblings
  • has not been tested
  • yes waiting results
  • Not tested
  • no siblings
  • older adult siblings not tested
  • do not know
23. Did the brother or sister of the child become diabetic?
24. Was there any autoimmune disease in the family?
Other answers:
  • Grave's Disease, arthritis
  • JRA, Lupus, Thyroid disease
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis, Addison's Disease
  • Thyroid disease
  • hypothyroidism
  • thyroid, arthritis, psoriasis, cardiomyopathy
  • allergies, athlerosclerosis (heart disease)
  • RA, hypothyroid, crohns disease
  • asthma, rheumatoid arthritis
  • in extended family;epilepsy, ALS, parkinsons,PCOS, psorisis, and others not sure which
  • Lupus, hypothyroidism
  • Sun sensitivity (possibly auto-immune).
  • RA Lupus other
  • rhemotiod arthritis in aunt a few generations back
  • hypothyroid, T1 D, Crohn's
  • celiac
  • alopecia
  • thyroid, Evans syndrome
  • Type 1 Diabetes, Thyroid, Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • B 12 deficiency
  • rheumatoid arthritis, wegner's granulomatosis, asthma
  • Thyroid
  • Lupus, alopecia
  • Psoriasis, hypothyroidism, lactose intolerance
  • type 1 in grandfather
  • Type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism
  • several
  • Multiple Sclerosis
25. Have you accepted the disease?
26. How long did the parent have to take care of the child (when could the parent go back to work)?
27. Do you have any noteable observation? Do you suspect anything, which could play a role in the development of your child’s diabetes?
Other answers:
  • child fell off of a bed onto the edge of a box on his belly 6 wks prior to dx.
  • I find it interesting that the dx was only a few months after nursing ended. I almost wonder if nursing helped hold off the disease a while. I do not believe that the end of nursing caused the diabetes though.
  • Croup, no other illness prior to dx
  • under weight
  • other than strep, he did have very active soccer season prior to dx and very busy school and other activities, possibly overstressed?
  • virus approx 6 months before diagnosis
  • environment, stress
  • high dioxin levels where we used to live
  • HPV vaccination
  • 2 viruses -broke out into red bumps a few years ago.
  • MMR vaccine specifically
  • I believe vaccines could play a role along with chemicals,etc in the environment. Then a trigger sets diabetes into action--for my child it was the croup virus.
28. Thank you!

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