Question by : can diabetes that has come from alcohol be passed down to kids?
if a person has BECOME diabetic from drinking alcohol or another bad lifestyle habit can it be passed to their kids? Or does that only happen if the person if diabetic since birth?
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Answer by Patrick
Well as long as it does not change your genetic makeup I really highly doubt It will be passed down to your kids… But it may cause complications while the child is in the womb and stuff like that but I still doubt that…
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My understanding is no, but they may have had a genetic suseptibility to d. and that’s why it occured when they were stressed w/ drinking and other bad lifestyle choices.
Diabetes does not come from alcohol or other bad habits. Bad habits, however, do get picked up by kids because they learn from watching their parents.
Diabetes usually doesn’t skip a generation. Alcohol directly does not cause diabetes but if you suffer from alcoholism, chronic pancreatitis can be a complication and this may increase your chance of diabetes. Watching your diet and exercising is a good idea and it probably will delay the onset but it is inevitable if you have the genetic risk. In type 1 the pancreas makes little to no insulin so injected insulin is needed to stay alive. Type 2 the pancreas makes the insulin but the body does not use it properly thus insulin resistance develops and treated with oral meds, insulin or both.
Genes play a role in type 1 but scientists have also determined that it could be a virus or unknown factors that cause it. Genes also play a role in type 2 diabetes, but lifestyle choices are also important. You can, for example, have a genetic mutation that may make you susceptible to type 2, but if you take good care of your body, you may delay developing diabetes. So, in families it is a good idea to teach your children healthy eating and exercising habits to maintain a healthy body.
Hope this helps.
No it can not