The Parent Report: Type 1 Diabetes

BOSTON (CBS) - Dealing with Type 1 diabetes can be a challenge for both kids and parents.

Irene Mallano's daughter Madison Rose was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was only 4.

Mallano took her daughter to the emergency room after she started noticing some of the usual symptoms of Type 1 diabetes, which she says parents should watch out for.

After they came home from the hospital, she and her daughter realized their lives would be changing.

So Mallano and Madison Rose decided to write a book together called, "Mommy, What is Type-1 Diabetes?" to help overwhelmed parents and kids deal with the condition.

Mallano is donating 25% of the net proceeds from the book to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

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• Doug Cope