Type 1 Diabetes Treatment

Type 1 diabetes is also known as "juvenile diabetes" because it typically appears during childhood or adolescence.Typical in the treatment of all diabetic patients, the initial concern in the type 1 diabetes treatment is to maintain blood sugar near the normal level to delay or prevent any complications. There is a 50% expectancy rate for complications like heart attack and stroke to take place if the blood sugar level is not controlled.

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease because the pancreas produces little or no insulin at all due to a disorder in the autoimmune system of the body. The immune system treats its own tissues as foreign bodies wherein the insulin producing islet cells of the pancreas is seen by the autoimmune system as an opponent by mistake and as a result, antibodies are then produced to destroy the islet cells. The chain of events following the body's natural reaction due to lack of insulin will now cause hormonal imbalance leading to Type 1 diabetes.