Some diabetic teens may overdose on insulin
Saturday March 25, 2006
Parents worry about teenagers overdosing on drugs or alcohol, or deliberately sniffing toxic substances to get high. But parents of children with diabetes have a new worry: children inducing a coma by deliberately injecting too much insulin. About.com Diabetes Guide Nina Nazor reports on a French study that looked at 149 teens with Type 1 diabetes who had experienced hypoglycemic comas and found that a small percentage had brought those comas on by purposefully giving themselves extra doses of insulin -- whether in a misguided attempt to make up for missed doses, an effort to address parental concerns about underdosing, a way to avoid family and personal problems, or even, in one case, a method for attempting suicide. Adolescence is a time when kids need to take over responsibility for their own diabetes care, but this study puts parents on notice that they still need to monitor the situation. ... More on parenting a child with diabetes
Comments
can a overdose of insulin kill a person?
is their no way that insulin can be kept from teenagers and be given something else, however I do understand that taking tablets can also leed to drug abuse.
just asking and wishing there could be another way for teenagers specific.