Is diabetes treated in children worldwide with insulin injections?

Diabetes in children is treated only with injections of insulin therefore it is called insulin-dependent diabetes. Diabetes that occurs mainly in older persons, or type2 diabetes, is sometimes being treated only with appropriate diet and / or tablets, and only a small number of patients with insulin. Needles that are used today are thinner and sharper than those that were used before and are virtually painless.

There are studies which proved that nine out of ten insulin injections are virtually painless. Parents can convince themselves by receiving an injection, and convinced of painlessness it will help in giving their child an injection of insulin. Sometimes, though rarely, injections can be painful when they accidentally hit a nervous ending. In recent years the growing number of children receives insulin therapy by using insulin pumps.