About 1.25 million Americans have type 1 diabetes and an estimated 40,000 people will be newly diagnosed each year in the U.S. Many of those are diagnosed as adolescents.

Orlando Sentinel health reporter Naseem Miller talks with Claire Goodowens, 12, and Pierce O’Lenick, 16, about living with type 1 diabetes. Dr. Shilpa Gurnurkar, an endocrinologist at Nemours, discusses the challenges of this chronic disease.