--- title: A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Your body runs on sugar from food, and a hormone (a chemical messenger in the blood) called insulin is the key --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / A classmate with diabetes, and other l… # A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions Lesson 16 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/0/) — Your body runs on sugar from food, and a hormone (a chemical messenger in the blood) called insulin is the key that lets the sugar into your cells. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/2/) — It is not caused by eating sweets and you cannot catch it; with careful carb counting a diabetic child can even eat the birthday cake. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/3/) — Too little sugar is a hypo: shaky, pale, sweaty, cross or confused; fast sugar like juice or glucose tablets fixes it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/4/) — Many classmates live with long-term conditions, epilepsy, cystic fibrosis, ADHD, heart problems, and none of them is catching or anyone's fault. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/5/) — In type 1 diabetes the immune system has destroyed the insulin-making cells of the pancreas, an organ behind the stomach; insulin lets sugar from food into cells for energy. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/6/) — Type 1 diabetes is not caused by eating too many sweets, and it is not catching. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/7/) — A continuous glucose monitor has a tiny thread under the skin that measures sugar every few minutes and sends it to a phone. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/8/) — A hypo is blood sugar too low, from too much insulin, too little food or extra exercise; signs are shaking, sweating, paleness, crossness or confusion. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/9/) — A hypo is treated with fast sugar such as glucose tablets or juice, then the level is checked again in 15 minutes. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/10/) — Type 2 diabetes is commoner in older adults; the body makes insulin but doesn't respond well, and it is treated with diet, exercise, tablets and sometimes insulin. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/11/) — Children with type 1 diabetes can eat most foods if they count the carbohydrates (carbs, the sugar and starch in food) and adjust their insulin. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/12/) — Epilepsy causes seizures from bursts of electrical activity in the brain; nothing should be put in the mouth, and nobody can swallow their tongue. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/13/) — During a seizure, adults keep the person safe by moving hard things away, time it, put them on their side afterwards, and call 999 if it lasts over five minutes or is a first seizure. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/14/) — A wheelchair is a tool that gives freedom; ask before pushing someone's wheelchair, and schools plan trips so that everyone can come. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/15/) — Cystic fibrosis is an inherited condition (passed down from parents) with thick sticky mucus (slime) in the lungs and gut, treated with medicines and daily chest physio; it is not catching, but two people with it keep apart so they do not pass lung germs to each other. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/16/) — ADHD is a difference in how the brain manages attention, activity and impulses (sudden urges), and it is not caused by bad parenting or sugar. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/17/) — Some children are born with heart conditions, and heart doctors called cardiologists decide which sports are safe. - ← previous: [Eczema and other skin troubles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/) - next →: [How medicines work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)