Brighton girl appears in diabetes campaign video (From The Argus)
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Brighton girl appears in diabetes campaign video
11:00am Sunday 15th July 2012 in News
Brighton girl appears in diabetes campaign video
A teenager is taking part in a national campaign to raise awareness of diabetes.
Ella-Mae Campling, 13, from Brighton, appears in an online video aimed at teaching people the signs of the condition.
It has been put together by Diabetes UK and JDRF, the type 1 diabetes charity, and features children living with diabetes from around the country.
Ella-Mae’s mum said: “For more than two months Ella had symptoms of extreme weight loss, tiredness and a breath that smelt of pear drops.
“I took her to the doctors and she was misdiagnosed as having a virus on three occasions. I was even accused of being an overprotective mum.
“Ella was finally diagnosed after being taken to A&E as her condition worsened.”
Mrs Campling said Ella-Mae had received a mixed level of care.
She said: “I’ve had to fight to get her condition recognised and treated. We even had to change GPs just to get a referral.
“I cannot stress enough how important it is that type 1 diabetes is caught early. I don’t want another parent to also go through such a frightening experience with their child.”
About 2,000 children a year are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which means it is five times more common in children than bacterial meningitis.
The video can be found at www.jdrf.org.uk/type1aware.
Comments(3)
MuammarQaddafi
says...
2:11pm Sun 15 Jul 12
diabetes care is one of the few things that private healthcare does well.
getThisCoalitionOut
says...
5:53pm Thu 19 Jul 12
MuammarQaddafi wrote:I too can speak from experience and say that private health insurance is disgraceful where diabetes is concerned and I would never recommend it.
Speaking from experience,
diabetes care is one of the few things that private healthcare does well.
Our NHS needs improving dramatically and we need to get the overpaid management out of hospitals and more low paid workers in.
The majority of diabetes specialists seem very, very badly informed nowadays to the extent where they are making a lot of mistakes due to their lack of knowledge. This needs to be changed.
Corrupt Scumbag says...
12:58pm Sun 15 Jul 12
Imagine how much better things will be when people can get the insurance policy out and make a few nervous phone calls to speak to a compassionate health insurance screening /policy/adviser operative. I really can't wait.
The private health industry has a lot to teach us all about diabetes care. I think many people and patients with a well developed and strong sense of entitlement might be harking back to the days when they could receive a 'mixed level of care' so cheaply on the NHS.
Doesn't the future look a lot worse with co-funding, personal health budget idiocy, and the laughable health policy smokescreen in place while Cameron carves up the NHS for his tory financial backers?