Chrissy Teigen shares update on 6-year-old son Miles' diabetes diagnosis

Chrissy Teigen shared an update connected 6-year-old lad Miles' Type 1 diabetes diagnosis.

On Wednesday, the exemplary revealed that she and her hubby John Legend, 45, were 'still learning' astir her son's illness. 

The mother-of-four, 38 — who precocious revealed she was starting a podcast — took to Instagram to stock a carousel of snaps of her children enjoying clip unneurotic arsenic a family.

She initially captioned the station explaining that her children support the location 'alive', claiming it is 'perfect' that her kids are 'becoming comic small humans.

Underneath the post, a parent who besides has a kid battling Type 1 diabetes wrote: 'As a ma with specified a ample following, would you see sharing much astir Type 1? At slightest a spot to rise awareness? Sincerely, a chap T1 mom.'

In effect Teigen said: 'I decidedly program to! We are inactive learning implicit present ourselves!'

Aside Miles, Teigen and Legend share daughters Luna, 8, and Esti, 19 months, and son  Wren, 17 months

The brunette beauty announced that her lad has Type 1 diabetes successful precocious July aft posting a photograph of the youngster with insulin show connected his arm.

A week later, the All of Me hitmaker recalled the infinitesimal helium and his woman of 12 years learned of their six-year-old's diagnosis in an affectional interrogation with PEOPLE.

He claimed Miles had fallen sick portion astatine summertime camp, which led to what the mates thought would beryllium a elemental travel to the exigency room.

'I retrieve helium was astatine the exigency country due to the fact that of it and they checked his humor sugar,' the vocalist explained. 'The reasoning was, this whitethorn beryllium a absorption to the corruption oregon helium whitethorn beryllium diabetic.'

He continued: 'They did immoderate much tests and decided it was the latter; that helium was benignant 1 diabetic. Chrissy was upset a small spot erstwhile she archetypal heard. She's been truthful bully astatine learning what she needs to do.'

And Legend assured the outlet that helium was 'very optimistic' and 'practical' astir the situation.

'As soon arsenic I learned that helium had this I knew it was going to beryllium life-changing for him and for us, but I'm besides like, "We tin bash this,"' helium explained.

'We've got large proposal and tons of radical offering enactment to assistance america learn,' the Beauty and the Beast vocalist added.

'This speaks to america feeling similar a squad and knowing we tin bash this. It conscionable makes america stronger,' The vocalist said of helium and his wife.

The EGOT victor besides explained that Miles is successful the 'early' stages of his diagnosis and that helium and his exemplary woman 'have to beryllium much aware.'

He shared: '[Miles is] aboriginal successful his diagnosis, and erstwhile you're early, your insulin is inactive doing immoderate of the enactment that it needs to do. But arsenic the illness progresses, it's going to get to a constituent wherever we truly request to show everything, number carbs, springiness him insulin beforehand. We conscionable person to beryllium much aware.'

According to the Mayo Clinic, benignant 1 diabetes is simply a information wherever 'the pancreas makes small oregon nary insulin.

'Insulin is simply a hormone the assemblage uses to let sweetener (glucose) to participate cells to nutrient energy.'

The session besides says that the illness tin beryllium attributed to genetics and definite viruses. It typically appears during adolescence but tin beryllium diagnosed during adulthood arsenic well.

Those managing it indispensable modulate the magnitude of sweetener successful their humor by utilizing insulin and dieting. Type 1 diabetes has nary cure.