When sugar causes pain

ABSTRACT

Sometimes we use scary terms to define diseases. At other times, we use euphemisms that can take away from their gravity, like replacing 'diabetes' with 'sugar'. It is the renaming of diabetes mellitus, perhaps rising out of the fact that it is caused by the body's inability to regulate the amount of sugar (specifically glucose) in the blood, that caused some level of confusion in the mind of a four year old boy when the subject was raised by adults in his presence.