Can a 5-year old be a Type 2 diabetic?

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What is the range for acceptable blood glucose level in a 5-year old?

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The people saying "no" are all wrong. YES a 5 year old can be type 2. The Sacramento Bee newspaper just published a study done in LA a few weeks ago. LA reported that their youngest case of Type II was a TWO year old.

""The youngest kid in Los Angeles County with (Type 2) diabetes is 2," Peters said. "We have 10- to 12-year-old kids who weigh in excess of 250 pounds.""

"Latinos and African Americans have been the hardest hit: Children in these groups born after 2000 stand a 50 percent chance of becoming diabetic at some point in their life,"

http://www.sacbee.com/296/story/25135.ht...

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no type 1 or nothing
NO, But exeptions are always there
No, absolutely not; a five year old that devolops diabetes is a type 1 diabetic, even a 7 year old is a type 1 diabetic, type 2 diabetes is for people who devolop diabetes later in life. If this is your child learn all you can because this disease if a very bad disease but if kept under control it can be possible to live without complications. Have your Pediatrician do a A1c blood test. This will go back months and a more accurate diagnosis for diabetes.
YES! It is possible, and not only possible it's happening more all the time. Age is not the diagnosis criteria for what type of diabetes you have. It's the CAUSE of the diabetes. It has long been a misconception that type1 occurs in children and type 2 occurs in adults. As a matter of fact, type 1 USED to be called Juvenile diabetes and type 2 USED to be called Adult onset diabetes. These were changed to type 1 and 2 because of confusion when diagnosing someone who is an adult who has type 1 or a child who has type 2. Insulin dependent and non-insulin dependent was abandoned for the same type of confusion based on treatment...there are some type 2's who are insulin dependent, but their insulin use does NOT change their type.

Normal glucose levels for a 5 year old are the same as an adult unless they have diabetes and are being treated with insulin or medications. "Normal" in that case might be set higher because of the risk of hypoglycemia. A doctor is who should decide what a child's glucose targets should be.
No but can be type -1 instead of guessing and asking questions head fast i mean fast to a diabetics specialist and save the 5 year old.
Yes. The sedentary lifestyles that are now commonplace in many developed nations have helped this to become much more prevalent.
We see more and more of this as well as hypertension and obesity in children.
A normal blood sugar is generally 60 to 110.