To think this is the start of type 1 diabetes

[NeuroSpicyCat]

Hand hold please.

My 13 year old son informed me tonight that he wet the bed last night.

This has never happened before.

His late father had Type 1 diabetes which started around this age.

My son also has a sore tummy (that comes and goes) and sore calves (that come and go).

He seems to have low mood also.

He's always been really thin.

My husband (his stepdad) is driving to A&E with him right now. I’m staying home with the other 4 children. (I can’t drive).

I’m autistic and scared. I’m so worried for him. AI said he is highly likely to be diagnosed given his symptoms and family history, and he’s likely to be urgently admitted to hospital.

Has anyone been in a similar situation?

Paeds A&E is often really quick.

I'm baffled about why OP thought this was an A&E job and not a GP in the morning job though 🙄

"if" is doing heavy lifting here. The child doesn't have diabetes, as proven by the random middle of the night a&e visit

Yes they are; tired, thirsty, toilet, thin are the 4 first signs.

The first and only sign in my DD was the amount she was weeing, including wetting the bed.

I hope you’ve managed to get some sleep now.
I can understand your anxiety but you really risk transferring this to your child. With a single symptom like that it may have been better waiting until the morning. This subtle kind of thing that young children remember forever and are scared by.
I say that as a parent with an anxious child who I spend the whole time with downplaying their concerns about almost everything.
I do hope everything is ok with your son and that it is a UTI, which can cause sudden bedwetting like this.

You went to A and E because your son wet the bed ??!

I know a child who went to the GP the day before with some vague symptoms (not textbook) and she passed away in her sleep that night from undiagnosed type 1 diabetes 💔

I think people are being unnecessarily mean. The OP is obviously extra worried because of her child’s dad and at least her mind can be at rest once he’s home

Lyla Story by any chance? 😢

Take your son to see your GP asap. He can easily be checked for diabetes and, in fact, you can buy things to do hime testing - or have the test done at a pharmacy. I would do that.

Go straight to a&e. My son was misdiagnosed & two days later went back to the GP who bluelighted him to hostipal it was a miracle he lived he was in DKA and his bloods were 110mmol.

undiagonsed type one diabetes is life threatening, its not something to um & aw about. Go.

Ridiculous advice. He’s only been seen by a triage nurse and given the reason for attending, that triage will include a blood glucose test. There could be any number of reasons his blood sugar is fine now and they clearly want him to be seen by a doctor given that he has symptoms of something. Leaving secondary care in favour of primary care is going backwards and is not a good idea. And where do you live that you can access a GP appointment on demand the next day ?

They are at A&E and have been triaged. Do you understand how dangerous undiagnosed diabetes is ?

I am also supposing a wet dream. Does he know about these? It might have taken him by surprise and he wasn't really sure what had happened.

Using AI as a first resource is a bit...dodgy. Is this what we've come to now?

And has other symptoms. OP says his late father had type 1 diabetes, so OP will be familiar with the condition and if his death was related to the condition then her fears will be heightened. And if you read her updates he has been triaged and waiting to see a doctor. Give her a break.

Maybe becsuse DKA can be fatal🤔

No it isn't.

@Setyoufree do not EVER shame someone for going to a&e for undiagnosed type one diabetes it can kill within hours! Some people dont have the luxury to wait till the next day too see their GP they would die before then.

That would be an unfortunate end to a wet dream. Parents take your for a night in A and E 😂

Wow the twats were out in full force last night. OP was worried for her child. She did the right thing.

@steff13 type one diabetes isnt treatable with dietary changes. Its an autoimmune disease that stops you making beta cells that produce insulin. Youre thinking of type two diabetes- they are completely different diseases!

OP’s son has always been thin, he has not lost weight. He has no increased urination and no increased thirst. Just a single bedwetting incident.

A&E would much rather see a child and eliminate the high risk, serious possibility than delay without medical attention and have that small potential outcome escalate severely.

A couple of years ago DS had an abdominal pain. I took him to the GP, GP wasn't sure and said if it gets worse go to A&E. It didn't get worse but it did persist and I did end up taking DS. 8 hours later he was in surgery. It wasn't what the GP thought it could be, but it was still an urgent surgical issue. DS doesn't express pain very obviously so it's hard to guage an issue like that.

A&E is not permanently rammed and late night in the summer, mid-week tends to be favourable on load on the service. It's not drunk o'clock, it's not flu season, or sports match trauma time.

OP hardly got him checked for a paper cut.
DS has asthma and it's one of those conditions where they err on the side of caution too rather than risking escalation to life-threatening levels.

And a mother who is possibly rather on the over-anxious side. Which AI absolutely did nothing to help.

I’m sorry you don’t have a good GP. If OP preferred she could have returned to A&E the next day but sitting for hours in the middle of the night with a stable patient whose blood test was NAD is just daft.

OP, I don't usually comment on these threads but I can't believe you sent your child to A&E because he wet the bed. A&E is for life threatening medical emergencies. I appreciate your family has a medical history of diabetes but you cannot take one symptom out of context when your son isn't even presenting as unwell! Are you going to take him to A&E tomorrow if he has one extra glass of water as his thirst is increased?!
This is a classic example of everything that is wrong with our NHS- people completely abusing medical services. It makes me so cross especially as my 7 month old son waited over 2 hours to be diagnosed with meningococcal sepsis- a medical emergency- at A&E because it was so busy, likely with people like you completely overreacting!

Your using AI to diagnose your son
the world has gone totally mad
that’s all anyone’s seems to say at the moment - chat gtp says. .. AI says