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Isabella was a happy 2 year old child when our lives were turned upside down with the diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes. 

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition. For reasons we don’t yet fully understand, your immune system – which is meant to protect you from viruses and bacteria – attacks and destroys the insulin producing cells in your pancreas, called beta cells.

Insulin is crucial to life. When you eat, insulin moves the energy from your food, called glucose, from your blood into the cells of your body. When the beta cells in your pancreas fail to produce insulin, glucose levels in your blood start to rise and your body can’t function properly. Over time this high level of glucose in the blood may damage nerves and blood vessels and the organs they supply.

This condition affects 400,000 people in the UK, with over 29,000 of them children. Incidence is increasing by about four per cent each year particularly in children under five, with a five-fold increase in this age group in the last 20 years.

Life with Type 1 is a constant struggle especially since hormones, stress, growth spurts, exercise and illness can make blood sugar levels unstable.

Now 8 years old, Isabella has decided to climb Wales highest mountain Snowdon this summer, to raise money to fund crucial research to find a cure and to improve the lives of all children living with Type 1.

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