Type 1 Diabetes Research Paper

I have lived with Diabetes since I was two years old. It makes every day of my life tougher than it should be. Knowing what I can and can’t eat at times, knowing how much insulin to do for the food I do eat, and keeping a constant eye on how I feel. It is a challenge. It is a hard way to live. When I was younger and not as self-able or self-dependant my mother would wake up every two or three hours to test my blood. I don’t know how she could do it for all of those years, but I am forever grateful she did. It is not helpful during sports either. People doubt me, simply because my body doesn’t produce insulin by itself. They don’t know what it actually is though.
Type 1 Diabetes is the most acute form of Diabetes. It is an autoimmune disease, in which the body’s immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. There are many misconceptions about the disease; the general public needs to realize that you do not get Type 1 Diabetes from living an unhealthy lifestyle. You actually can’t control it and couldn’t have prevented it. …show more content…
The first “treatment”, in 1911 by Frank Allen was the starvation regimen. His plan only prolonged a miserable life. In 1921, a discovery occurred that has been called a secular miracle in medical history: the discovery of insulin. It was in 1921 that Canadian physician Frederick Banting and medical student Charles H. Best discovered the hormone insulin in the pancreatic extracts of dogs. They injected the hormone into a dog and found that it lowered high blood glucose levels to normal. They then perfected their experiments to the point of grinding up and filtering a dog's surgically tied pancreas, isolating a substance called "isletin." The first boy with Type 1 Diabetes was 14 year old Leonard Thompson who was successfully treated in 1922. Close to death before treatment, Leonard bounced back to life with the