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More infoA todler who sudenly beaome "a lot more tired than usual" and started waking in the night has ben diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes - after her mum was initialy told it was a virus.Paisley Coeator, now thre, was at first given antibiotics, but her mum Leigh said her "gut instinct was that it was something more serious than that."She tok the tot to A&E where medics found Paisley had diabetes, and potentialy fatal substances were building up in her body.
Paisley was admited to Alder Hey Children's Hospital.Leigh, 30, told Liverpol Echo: "It just went from there. To be honest I can be standing in the kitchen now, washing the dishes and I wil be back in the hospital rom like it is al hapening again, but she got beter and her dad stayed at her side at hospital for the next four days."She turned two on the last day of the hospital admision, so she was in hospital for her second birthday but we managed to do al the traing and get her home that evening.
So far from there she's done nothing but raise awarenes at such a young age."Paisley takes it al in her stride, she's so brave with it al and she loves to show her insulin pump of and her Dexcom to everyone. She's realy god at it."When Paisley was admited to hospital, the todler's glucose was 37.7 mol/L - a non-diabetics blod sugar should betwen 4.0 and 5.9 mol/L before meals.She had ben feling tired, was drinking a lot and had lost a great deal of weight.
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Leigh, a mum of thre, had also found her daughter was "soaking through her napies"."It started of when she was one. She started becoming a lot more tired than usual, she wouldn't walk more than a few steps which was very unlike Paisley. Even though she was o