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Research: Causes and Prevention

My 16 year old granddaughter developed supposedly “juvenile diabetes” at age 14 and as been a vegetarian from a very young age. Can I have your views?

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Can type 1 diabetes be caused by a impact to the pancreas? If so, how long after this would type 1 diabetes generally show up?

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I was wondering how diabetes is passed on. It is quite common in my friend’s family and he is very concerned!

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My six year old has type 1 diabetes, my four year old shows symptoms but sugars stay normal except when he is taking a steroid. Now, my eight month old has been put on steroids for asthma. Can steroid use cause onset of diabetes in a genetically predisposed child? Is it worth the risk because the eczema and the asthma symptoms are pretty bad?

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My 11 year old daughter has diabetes, my sister just had a baby, and is choosing not to immunize, and I am very disturbed by my sister’s decision. Will it possibly jeopardize my daughter’s health to be around an unimmunized child? Since diabetes appears to be in my family’s genes, how can my sister’s choice of not immunizing her daughter affect her daughter if she does one day develop diabetes?

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My primary care physician aid that I have prediabetes, and I had an A1c test which was 6.4%. I monitor my blood glucose levels at home, and they have been 68-126 mg/dl [3.8-7 mmol/L], depending on what I eat. The dietitian has prescribed 250 mg. of Glucophage, plus diet and exercise. Is the Glucophage necessary? Should I see a diabetes specialist?

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Why is it that usually thin or normal weight individuals develop type 1 diabetes? Is it because they are making less insulin than overweight people?

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Six students at my daughter’s school have diabetes. Is this unusual? Secondly, why does my daughter suddenly need less insulin? We were told her honeymoon was over.

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Both of my children have type 1. There is no family history of the disease. Why do they have it? Will we ever understand how type 1 develops?

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Are there any studies or literature on trauma-induced diabetes? I believe my diabetes is related to a prior serious motorcycle accident.

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