Mother - refusing child insulin treatment for Type 1 Diabetes.

To start of this post I would like to thank Insulin nation they often have a large amount of interesting blog posts that keep us up to date with the latest stories, advances and advise. You will often see that I put a link in my posts to one of their stories that I believe is worth reading and that I wish to talk about further.

This post is shocking and down right abusive, it also makes us aware of how easily incorrect stories available on the internet can lead to people believing that there is natural cures for Type 1 Diabetes.

Here is the link to the article

Parent Refuses Insulin for Teen with Type 1

  http://goo.gl/A4r6a3

Lets be bold here and say the absolute truth that all of us reading this already know because with out this life saving invention none of us would be reading this article anyway:

There is only one treatment for Type 1 diabetes and that is daily insulin.

There is most certainly and at least not yet any way any other treatment.

 Treatment for type 1 diabetes is a lifelong commitment of monitoring blood sugar, taking insulin, maintaining a healthy weight, eating healthy foods and exercising regularly.  The aim is to maintain blood glucose within normal limits.  Tighter control of blood sugar levels can reduce the risk of diabetes-related health complications.

I decided to search the web to possibly see what these parents where seeing that could honestly make them believe there was any other treatment or even a cure for Type 1 Diabetes, I know the truth so it was a bit hard being suckered in to this:

This one sounded quite convincing - My first concern though was that it was on a website called Cancertutor so what makes these guys experts on Diabetes I really don't know. Their cure was the following :

First, use a special nutritional protocol to kill the microbes and parasites (e.g. pancreatic flukes) identified by the consultation.

Flukes are flatworm parasites not what I was told caused my diabetes.

Second, use electromedicine to re-energize the cells in the organs which were weakened by the microbes/parasites.

What is electromedicine ? could find lots of places selling certain devices but no down right definition something to do with sending electricity through your body. Bob Beck sells a Diabetes Zapper devise.

My Second thought is do us Type 1's identify that we are Type 1 early enough to re-energize our beta cells, my understanding was that the body saw the beta cells as bad guys and fought against them so they became useless (Talking like a 5 year old.) One of the problems we might encounter , if there was a way to replace Beta Cells in our bodies,is we might start the process again and reject these cells. This has actually been tested I quote from a more reliable source: "Over the past several years, doctors have attempted to cure diabetes by injecting patients with pancreatic islet cells—the cells of the pancreas that secrete insulin and other hormones. However, the requirement for steroid immunosuppressant therapy to prevent rejection of the cells increases the metabolic demand on insulin-producing cells and eventually they may exhaust their capacity to produce insulin."

So they are saying energize the cells even if that worked there is more chances than not that you will still fight these cells off in a vicious cycle.

 Lets look at it like a 5 year old again - The Beta Cells are like Anikin Skywalker a heroic Jedi Knight they then decide to cloak themselves in Black wear a mask and appear to have moved to the "Dark Side" So your body - "The Resistance" fights against them for the good of the body. Only to find out too late on the Beta Cells death bed  that they are actually "good"(Luke I am your Father) but the resistance does not believe them and they continue fighting. (I have had an over dose of Star wars lately, oh you can tell.)

This two-step process first gets rid of the “root cause” of the diabetes and then re-energizes the weakened cells so the immune system will again become fully functional.

I would not rush out and buy your Diabetes Zapper just yet.

Please use your common sense. There a hundreds of people claiming to have the cure or a better treatment. If you are too overwhelmed with the diagnosis and you common sense has taken a short vacation remember this.

THE ONLY TREATMENT FOR TYPE 1 DIABETES IS DAILY INSULIN TAKEN SUBCUTANEOUSLY (INTO THE FATTY LAYER BETWEEN THE SKIN AND MUSCLE)EITHER BY INJECTION OR INSULIN PUMP.

There are no tablets for Type 1 Diabetics, there is no herbal cure, and as we have seen Electromedicine can't help. (Tablets can help get better control,a herbal additive can help get better control,maybe even the Electromedicine has it's place but all are there just to help with control while taking a daily dose of INSULIN.

My best advice is go see an Endocrinologist do what he/she says and soon too you will be a believer that Insulin is the only way to go.

Thank you Dr. Frederick Banting your grand invention saved my life.

Stay linked.

Bye for now,

Kim

  

  

My One Direction onesie and other more serious stuff.

I must confess,I brought myself a One Direction onesie , not because I am a crazy 1 Direction fan or that I even know one of the band members names but because Edgars must of been misguided and thought that many adults had to have one! So these warm and cozy onesies whereon sale at half price. My husband says I look like a big red tomato in it. I prefer to say I look like a bottle of tomato sauce sounds a bit thinner.
So now this warm bottle of tomato sauce is going to cuddle up on the couch in this freezing winter weather and read this book in order to try and redeem myself.

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How I told my children about Diabetes.

I recently read this blog centering around how to tell your children that you have Diabetes.
http://insulinnation.com/living/daddy-whats-a-pump/?utm_src=HseEmail+00073

This got me thinking- How did I tell my kids about my Diabetes or did I?

I didn't have a sit down talk with them. It just happens during the everyday happenings of life,
I had to tell them not to play with the insulin pens but every parent should tell their kids not to take ,use or play with any form of medicine besides if they forget Mum's instructions and they think Mum bought a cool new highlighter, on taking the lid off they will see a sharp silver needle and quickly leave that pen alone.

Words children in a Diabetic family know and use that other kids don't:

Novapen
Test Kit
High (My youngest son has a hearty appetite and he has even tried saying if you eat all that you will go high in hopes that he will score the leftovers.)
Low
I need something to eat (They know that this does not just mean that I am hungry.)

Unlike this previous blogger I also never told my kids that the blood testing doesn't hurt. I remember my first finger prick and it was sore. (Granted the nurse did not have a softclix devise in those days. She just wielded this lancet from a dizzying height like she was trying to draw blood from a bull.)

I knew that one day I would want to check my son's blood sugar and I didn't want to come across as a liar in their eyes. I did tell them that sometimes it does hurt a little but I have done it so often now I don't even notice it.

All that said before school going age 6/7 they should know that if you look after your Diabetes and take all your medicine you can have a normal life and live as long a life as anyone else because at school it is very easy to be given incomplete information from other children. Like "My Gran died from Diabetes."

However you do it children learn best from observation.
If Mum is always injecting that medicine in a pen then that is important  special stuff for Mum.
If Mum has sweets in her test kit bag those are only for Mum.
Mum is more or less like any other Mum.

" My Mum takes us to school,goes to work *,comes to my school concert , comes to my soccer match,walks the park run with us and oh she is also a Diabetic and has to take insulint.(Not a spelling mistake this is how they used to say it.) and she bit my Dad once when her blood sugar was too low."
I don't think that is all that different from a non-Diabetic Mum's activities.

* I work as a bookkeeper and my Son thought I was something like a Librarian for years until he came with me to my work one day and saw no books what a let down.

I love my children dearly and they are a miracle. If I had been born even as soon as when my parents where born. I probably would have been told not to risk having babies and thank God I wasn't.
Would have really loved to be at a Beetles concert though.

Cheers for now.
Stay Linked

Kim