Diabetes is young needs to be managed properly simply because having it at younger age they have to spend decades with diabetes. That puts them at a high risk of complications at very young age. You must start allopathic medicines in consultation with a diabetologist. More that control of blood sugar it's important that your diagnosis is properly made (there are 50 types of diabetes), proper drug is selected so that you don't go into OHA failure and best efforts are made to prevent complications of diabetes. I would suggest you go through the basic information about diabetes on  diabecity.co.in