Diabetes is a health condition that goes hand in hand with various high-risk diseases, the predominant of which is heart disease.

Diabetes in childhood and adolescence is becoming increasingly common in India. A diagnosis of childhood diabetes is often received with great fear by parents as it evokes images of lifelong need for insulin injections, as well as the development of complications in the eyes, kidney, heart and feet. However, it is increasingly becoming clear that not all diabetes in children and adolescents needs to be treated with insulin.

The name ICU (Intensive care unit) has always given everyone shivers. Whenever someone says ICU, there are so many tubes going inside patients with zillions of wires and complicated leads placed around and over semi or unconscious patients who look as if they won’t survive! Some feel it’s a place where infections are there and one has to wear shoe covers and masks else they would contract serious infections.