I am just glad you found out now...you can cut the sugar out and work on a healthy regimine for your child and insulin will balance things out...good luck..I hope your child recovers without issues and you guys sort it out!
I was diagnosed with diabetes when I was about 41. It slowly got worse and worse for me until I couldn't get the right long term insulin from them and lost my kidneys so that now I'm a dialysis patient, at ALL COSTS. Let this sink in. Whatever you do, test their blood sugar a minimum of once a day and probably three times a day. Make sure they get the right amount of fast acting insulin, aspart, and slow acting insulin, glargine or Lantus based on their blood sugar readings and what type of food they eat and the quantity. This is going to take some getting use to but it must be done. Get a blood test meter such as the Accura and take it in to the doctor every few months or so he can download the data and give you advice on how your child is doing and whether he needs to change his insulin regimen or not. There are a ton of wonderful foods that your child may not eat if they lose their kidneys. No orange juice, for starters. Tomatoes, nuts, avocado artichokes, beans, grapefruit juice, coke and chocolate among others. Too many carbs should be avoided. It's a drag when you lose you kidneys. For God's sake, guard your child's kidneys by not letting the child have repeated episodes of high blood sugar. You want to keep the blood sugar below 150, 100 being normal and 150 getting into the lower level of the danger zone. Some people check again an hour after eating.
Sorry CN, I just now seen this. Ill keep you guys in my thoughts. Hang in there!
Stanford's new cell therapy cures type 1 diabetes in mice
A donor–recipient hybrid immune system may hold the key to curing Type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. Credit: Shutterstock
Stanford Medicine scientists report that giving mice both blood-forming stem cells and pancreatic islet cells from an immunologically mismatched donor either completely prevented or fully reversed Type 1 diabetes. In this disease, the body's own immune defenses mistakenly attack and destroy the insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas.
None of the animals developed graft-versus-host disease, a condition in which the immune system arising from the donated blood stem cells attacks healthy tissue in the recipient, and the destruction of islet cells by the animals' original immune system came to a stop. After receiving the transplants, the mice no longer needed immune suppressive drugs or insulin at any point during the six-month study.
"The possibility of translating these findings into humans is very exciting," said Seung K. Kim, MD, PhD, the KM Mulberry Professor and a professor of developmental biology, gerontology, endocrinology and metabolism. "The key steps in our study -- which result in animals with a hybrid immune system containing cells from both the donor and the recipient -- are already being used in the clinic for other conditions. We believe this approach will be transformative for people with Type 1 diabetes or other autoimmune diseases, as well as for those who need solid organ transplants."
Kim, who directs the Stanford Diabetes Research Center and the Northern California Breakthrough T1D Center of Excellence, is the senior author of the study, which published online Nov. 18 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Graduate and medical student Preksha Bhagchandani is the lead author of the research.
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Governments have incentive to offer cures. Cures make for a more productive and less needy population.
Because they don't have to pay for it. If we eliminated for-profit healthcare the government would have to care about that because an unhealthy population would take money they could use on other things.
Many capitalist based countries have single payer healthcare and healthcare as a right. Thus virtually eliminating the for-profit healthcare industry.
We're going to have to take power back from them.
