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Q: Alternative non-toxic treatments for type 1 (Juvenile) diabetes?
A friend of mine has been diabetic since he was 11 y.o. He is 55 now. He had a kidney transplant a couple of years ago, but the new kidney is now only 20% functional because of the BK-virus. He started having problems with his legs about 6 months ago and now he can not feel one of his feet and can barely limp on the other one. Doctors say that the nerve in one foot died and the other foot will always be swollen and hurt quite a bit.

Somebody recommended Vanadyl Plus, but it is too toxic for the transplanted kidney.

I wonder if anybody knows of any treatment for such complications from diabetes. We need something that would work for a type 1 diabetes patient with a kidney transplant.

A: He might want to try benforthiamine, which is a synthetic version of vitamin B1. It has been shown to help and/or possibly even prevent diabetes complications, including nerve damage and kidney disease. Now, I wouldn’t expect any miracles, but it’s worth a shot.

You can search Pub Med and the internet for info on benfortiamine.

He can also try anti-inflammatory supplements like Omega 3 EFA. Make sure he is not prone to an abnormal heart rythym though, as Omega 3 supplements can aggrevate this (even though they protect the heart otherwise).

Lastly, make sure his blood sugars are well controlled.

I assume he is already on ACE inhibitors and a low protein or renal diet. Both may help slow down any further deterioration.

Transplants do fail on their own as well. If that is the case, I would suggest he get a combined kidney and pancreas transplant.

If this is solely due to a virus, there is a chance some function may come back and his kidney *may* recover somewhat. I never rule out anything!

Best wishes for your friend! Please do not give up on him! You are a very nice person for trying to help him.

Q: DR H L TRIVEDI OF AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA IS ON THE WAY TO CURE TYPE 1 / JUVENILE DIABETES ?
DR H L TRIVEDI OF AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA IS ON THE WAY TO CURE TYPE 1 / JUVENILE DIABETES ?

Here in India, ETV Gujarati telecasted interview of Dr H L Trivedi on 15th August 2007.

Click the link to see the news in detail:-

http://www.medicaldaily.net/link.asp?ID=225107&Title=Stem%20cell%20cure%20for%20diabetes%20in%20offing:%20Gujarat%20docs

On 17th, I contact his hospital TELEPHONICALLY & inquired about the availability of the treatment to Diabetics; especially about my 16 yr Juvenile Diabetic only Son*. A lady named Nalinibahen, replied on his behalf over the telephone that I may go to there in Ahmedabad during any Monday to Friday with prior appoint. On inquiry, She got confirmation that blood group of my son & of mine is equal. She told me about the procedure that on arrival, they, through minor surgery, collect a piece of fat from my stomack & let us leave the hospital for about 15 days. During these period, they will cultivate stem cells from it. When stem cells r ready from the fat, they will call us for treatment of my Juvenile/Type 1 Diabetic Son. She informed me over TELEPHONE that they will transplant the stem cell into lever of the patient. After that, the patient has to let admitted for about 1 month. On inquiry, she told me their charges, Rs. 1 Lac.

WHAT DO U THINK ABOUT THIS NEWS WHEN SUCH TYPE OF RESEARCES ARE CONTINEOUSLY GOING ON ALL OVER GLOBE ?

HONEST OPINION PLEASE…!!!

Prakash Thakrar, India
prakashthakrar@gmail.com
+919974093554

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A: I personally think it is bunk!!!!! I don’t think that research has gone far enough to be able to do this. Do what you want. I will wait for the real researchers here to come up with something.

Q: what is juvenile diabetes?
definition, treatment, what will happen if not treated, symptom

A: Now known as Type 1 diabetes. Treatment with Insulin. If not treated children will die eventually.

Q: My son has Juvenile Type 1 diabetes, why can’t I get assistance with his bills?
They wanna say that me and my hubby make too much but here is the thing I work in a medical office I see people everyday that have wayyyy more than we do, with thier new cars and nice clothes and designer purses and they have medicaid, but may have depression, really? depression, My son has diabetes which is non stop dr. visits and medicines that our company insurance does pay towards but we are going in the hole… ever since he was diagnosed my grocery bill has doubled and my funds have completely depleated? Whats going on in this world that they look at our gross income not what we are paying each month like mortgage and insurance things like that and did you know that if your child has a medical problem that involves treatment after school care is doubled??? WTH??? I need help… If I have to I will have to say me and husband are seperated so I can get some help I dont everything free but I sure could use a lil help with the medical part of it. His medicines after our insurance cost me 160 a month! not counting all the strips and just raw material that insurance don’t pay for.
to respond to one of the answers, we already stretch out funds and I WISH we made 60,000 a year, of course I would have no problems then! I drive a 01 blazer and my husband drives a 92 chevy! really trade my newer cars in for older ones? how much older do I have to go? And no we are not getting “special sugar free” But when we used to be able to do Spaghetti that feeds for about $5.00 for 2 nights and casseroles that you can eat on for 2 nights. So as far as stretching budgets there is not many people cheaper than me with it all! So as far as you are concerned you are wrong, you told me not to assume but I’m not assuming I work in a medical office where I know where these patients that advantage of it live. I know what they drive and I file thier insurance everyday. I am just asking for a little help unlike them I don’t want it free. Just a little cheaper.

A: Your problem is twofold! one you both actually work at jobs with pay checks attached and pay taxes. two you are honest when you go fill out those forms for help.

I know about the cost of either type of diabetes after one gets on insulins!! My bills currently are around $300 after the insurance pays and we are retired so on fixed income!

I tried to go with the insurance co’s attitude toward Levemir but it is like I was injecting saline solution, so am having to pay 3/4 of bill for Lantus!

Yeah! It bites and won’t get any better with the new medical care bill the congress just foisted on us. Diabetics are to be phased out as they are flawed.

Q: Any treatment modalities for polycystic ovary syndrome?
My daughter who has juvenile diabetes has been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome. Regular medicine helps control symtoms but doesn’t seem to be really effective at treating the “whole” person. Any ideas on what kinds of alternative medical modalities there might be for this? Any help or ideas at all are welcome.

A: I have PCOS. I have gone to Standford for a study. Dr Cataldo is the doctor. Go to pcosa.org

There really isn’t anything yet to treat the whole person. I have taken Rx for diabetes along with Aldactone. I had taken the BC pill also, I hated that! I won’t take it anymore.

I WILL tell you that I notice a HUGE difference in the symptoms when I eat a lower carb diet. The hair growth is less. But like the combo I mentioned above, that got rid of most of it also.

They also say that a symptom of this is infertility. I have three kids. My daughter does not have it although it passes from mother to daughter from what I understand.

There are just so many ways that women show this. From balding to acne to the extra hair growth. My mom only had missed periods. My sister never missed a period but had issues with her pregnancies. I would have maybe 3 periods a year no issues with pregnancies, but the hair growth – ICK! No acne – even in teen years.

PCOSA was formed by a group of women about 10 or so years ago that have this. Wonderful group! Total grass roots group to figure this out.

Q: Discuss the patient’s diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. How would you diagnosis a child with this?
Case Study #1: Diabetes

Hannah is a 10-year-old girl who has recently been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. She is a 4th grade student at Hendricks Elementary School. Prior to her diagnosis, Hannah was very involved in sports and played on the girls volleyball team. Her mother is concerned about how the diagnosis will affect Hannah.

1. Discuss the patient’s diagnosis. Include a definition of the actual disease or condition.

Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus once known as “juvenile onset” diabetes or “insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus,” is a chronic disorder of carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism caused by inadequate production of insulin by the pancreas or faulty use of insulin by the cells. Insulin is a hormone needed to convert sugar (glucose) into energy. Although type 1 diabetes can develop at any age, it typically appears during childhood or adolescence.

2. Identify the factors which could have caused or lead to the particular disease or condition.

3. Describe the signs and symptoms which are associated with the disease or condition.

4. Discuss the diagnostic testing that is usually performed in order to formally diagnose the particular disease or condition.

5. Identify the appropriate treatment (including therapies, medications, etc) which the patient may be prescribed for his/her particular diagnosis.

6. Discuss potential barriers to therapy which the patient may experience due to their unique situation.

7. Discuss alternative treatments which may also benefit the patient.

8. Describe the typical prognosis for a patient with the disease or condition.

9. Identify patient teaching which would benefit the patient in your case study.

I have to do a paper for school and looking for a good website to answer these question.

A: WWW.diabetes.org is the official website for the American Diabetes Assoc.

Q: Laymans study here, please participate and answer the questions if you will be so kind and generous.?
Mothers who breastfed at least 4 months (or longer), how often were your children ill in their first year of life? Did you notice them develop any advanced cognitive abilities or development? Did the child ever require hospitilization? Are they overweight or suffering from juvenile diabetes?

Mothers who formula fed from day one, how often were your children ill in the first year of life? Did you notice any decreased cognitive abilities or developmental issues? Did the child ever require hospitilazation? Are they now overweight or suffering from juvenile diabetes?

I ask because I was a formula fed child who is a sound and healthy adult, and in superb shape. I fed my children breastmilk for 5 months each. My youngest, who just got on formula, has had a cold whilst on breastmilk when she was only a month old. My oldest, had an intestinal virus whilst on breastmilk at age 3 months that required hospital treatment. I was never ill in my first year of life on formula. Just curious.
Oh, and neither one of my children are “advanced” in any way, to my knowledge. I don’t have diabetes. And my baby girl who just stopped breastmilk is 6 months old and has no idea of how to crawl yet. No advanced baby savants here.

A: had 2 both on formula healthy bright never real sick much lots of cuts and bruises then grand kids came along both were breastfeed one had 2 bouts in hospital second under weight and lots of colds ….hhhhmmmmm……what seems healthier????

Q: What is left for me to say…..?
I typed up a report on diabetes, it is supposed to be 6 pages dubble spaced, but now i don’t know what else to put, all i need is a half a page more. Thank you!

Diabetes Type 1
Diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose levels are above normal. People with diabetes have problems using food for energy. After a meal, carbohydrates in food are broken down into a sugar called glucose, which is carried by the blood to cells throughout the body. Cells require insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas, to help use blood glucose for energy. People develop diabetes because the pancreas does not make enough insulin or because the cells in the muscles, liver, and fat do not respond to insulin properly, or both. As a result, the amount of glucose in the blood increases while the cells are starved of energy.
Prior to 1997, the type of diabetes typically diagnosed in young people was called juvenile diabetes or type 1. Diabetes emerging in adults was called adult-onset diabetes or type 2. Then in 1997, the official names of the types were changed to type 1 and type 2. Type 1 diabetes is the second most common chronic disease in children (after asthma). About 13,000 new cases are diagnosed in the U.S. each year. Patients with type 1 diabetes make up about 5 percent of all cases of diabetes. It most commonly appears in girls and boys when they are about 14 years old. Usually, type 1 diabetes is first diagnosed in children, teenagers, or young adults but it can occur at any age. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin. As a result, the pancreas does not make insulin, a hormone which helps use blood sugar (glucose) for energy. The cells become starved of energy and there is an excess of glucose in the blood. People with Type 1 diabetes must have daily injections of insulin to live. Proper diet, exercise and home blood sugar monitoring are essential to manage the disease. Food and exercise must also be balanced because of the risk of hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, and hyperglycemia, high blood sugar. Both are life threatening concerns. When hypoglycemia develops, cells are not getting enough glucose. Confusion, loss of consciousness, comma and death results when the brain is deprived of glucose for too long. Hyperglycemia and prolonged absence of insulin may lead to ketoacidosis, the accumulation of ketones in the blood when the body uses fat for energy instead of glucose. Ketones make the blood acidic and slow down all body functions. Like hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia can also lead to comma and death. The only cure available today for type 1 diabetes is a pancreas transplant, which is rarely done. Because both pancreas transplants and kidney transplants require lifelong use of powerful drugs to suppress immune reactions that can reject the organs, pancreatic transplants are usually done to those with type 1 diabetes who also need a kidney transplant. The side effects of immune- suppressive drugs can be severe and even worse than the disease. One or two people out of every 10 who get the surgery die within a year. Also the new pancreas is rejected by half of the people who get this operation. If the transplant fails, diabetes returns. Recently, experimental treatments with stem cells have shown some promise. For most people, type 1 diabetes is a life-long disease that can be effectively managed with insulin.

Signs and Symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes
•Urinates frequently. The kidneys respond to high levels of glucose in the bloodstream by flushing out the extra glucose in urine. A child with diabetes needs to urinate more frequently and in larger volumes.
•Is abnormally thirsty. Because the child is loosing so much fluid from peeing so much, he or she becomes very thirsty to help avoid becoming dehydrated. A child who has developed diabetes drinks a lot in an attempt to keep the level of body water normal.
•Loses weight. (or fails to gain weight as he or she grows) in spite of a good appetite. Kids and teens who develop type 1 diabetes may have an increased appetite, but often lose weight. This is because the body breaks down muscle and stored fat in an attempt the provide fuel to the hungry cells.
•Often feels tired. Because the body can’t use glucose for energy properly.

But in some cases, other symptoms may be the signal that something is wrong. Sometimes the first sign of diabetes is bedwetting in a child who has been dry at night. The possibility of diabetes should also be suspected if a vaginal yeast infection (also called a Candida infection) occurs in a girl who hasn’t started puberty yet. If these early symptoms of diabetes aren’t recognized and treatment isn’t started, chemicals called ketones can build up in the child’s blood and cause stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, fruity- smelling breath, breathing problems; even loss of consciousness. Sometimes these symptoms are mistaken f

A: Watch out on using advice from yahoo answers if truthfulness is graded. While 80% of type 2’s are overweight, only 18% of obese people are diabetic.

Q: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry’s To Use Human Milk!?
Has PETA gone over the edge?

WATERBURY, Vt. — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow’s milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.

“PETA’s request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow’s milk in the food he serves,” the statement says.

PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.

“The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn’t make sense,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “Everyone knows that ‘the breast is best,’ so Ben & Jerry’s could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk.”

“We applaud PETA’s novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother’s milk is best used for her child,” said a spokesperson for Ben and Jerry’s.

Read PETA’s letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield

September 23, 2008

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield,

CofoundersBen & Jerry’s Homemade Inc.

Dear Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield,

On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and supporters, I’d like to bring your attention to an innovative new idea from Switzerland that would bring a unique twist to Ben and Jerry’s.

Storchen restaurant is set to unveil a menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent breast milk procured from human donors who are paid in exchange for their milk. If Ben and Jerry’s replaced the cow’s milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers-and cows-would reap the benefits.

Using cow’s milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer’s health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America’s leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow’s milk to children, saying it may play a role in anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease-America’s number one cause of death.

Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, cows are forcefully impregnated every nine months. After several years of living in filthy conditions and being forced to produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally, their exhausted bodies are turned into hamburgers or ground up for soup.

And of course, the veal industry could not survive without the dairy industry. Because male calves can’t produce milk, dairy farmers take them from their mothers immediately after birth and sell them to veal farms, where they endure 14 to17 weeks of torment chained inside a crate so small that they can’t even turn around.

The breast is best! Won’t you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow’s milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerry’s ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Tracy Reiman

Executive Vice President

I am somewhat biased as I own a dairy and we treat our cows very well. They get the best feed, clean bedding, and living conditions, vet care, etc.
We don’t sell to veal farms(I have never heard of them).
What do you the yahoo public think?

Ghira ^ look up^

A: Who takes PETA seriously anyway?

These are terrorists who throw blood on people for wearing fur and throw rocks at children who fish. According to PETA “owning or possessing” animals for pets is wrong, Owning a pure bred pet is worse as that was unnatural breeding. They believe all animals should be allowed to free roam and breed at will. The believe you should not spay or neuter any animals.

I would suggest members of PETA should be spayed or neutered except that really isn’t necessary because the males are already psychologically neutered by the alpha-bitches.

Q: STEM CELL THERAPY in India for TYPE I Diabetes.?
Friends………………………………………??????????????
I am looking for Stem Cell Therapies availbale in India for the treatment of my daughter 11 yrs, diagnosed as Juvenile Diabetic, though no one in the family had ever had it.
Heard that some hospitals in chennai are working on this area.

A: My God,can’t people read?I have been crying hoarse about Dr.Ramanujam and Mr.Giridhar
curing diabetes.Only a few are able to come out of their educated ‘know everything’ attitude.
I can only tell you what my father and my relatives and now many Internet friends have gained from Dr.Ramanujam and Mr .Giridhar.
Assuming I am wrong , you will just waste some time.But if, IF I am right, you would be losing so much. In my experIEnce Western medicines,ie., Allopathy can destroy and now we should not go around searching for medicines that are actually harmful for us and our children.Well What can say except,I am Sorry that I only pity people who are not open minded.Friend DON’T DO IT (stem cell therapy) TO YOUR CHILD.
Check with these people before you go for anything. Giridhar’s mail id : girirangachari@yahoo.co.uk

Dear reginachi…How can you find the difference between cure and reduction or control. If it reduces very well say around 100
will you suggest that he/she should continue the medicines.Will the Doctor tell the person to continue. Further there is a Homeopath with more than 23 years of experience involved.
My contention is,No western medicine can control Diabetes for
long.The patient generally dies of complications.Further, Both Type I and Type II are names given by Western medical system for deficiencies of the body. Please read the book by Dr.Ray strand.

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