Recognizing juvenile diabetes early


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SALT LAKE CITY — Only three months ago, Kycie Terry’s parents were just hoping she would survive. Now the case of the five-year-old girl whose undiagnosed case of type 1 diabetes led to brain swelling and damage is helping to save the lives of other children.

Mike Summers from the Utah Chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation joined KSL to talk about how to recognize symptoms of type I diabetes early. Something that is frequently mistaken as flu-like symptoms could have much more lasting effects.

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