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Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes: Diabetes is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases worldwide. There are mainly two types of diabetes: Type-1 and Type-2. Health experts say that once you have diabetes, it takes a lifetime of effort to keep it under control. Type-2 diabetes can be controlled with medication as well as lifestyle-dietary improvements, whereas in case of type-1 diabetes, the patient needs to take insulin throughout his life. However, now great success has been achieved in this direction. Chinese scientists have discovered a new treatment called stem cell transplantation that can cure type 1 diabetes.
Stem cell transplant proved to be a boon
A 25-year-old woman, suffering from Type-1 diabetes for more than a decade, has found relief from diabetes after an invasive surgical transplant, according to a report published in a local Chinese newspaper. The stem cell transplant surgery took only half an hour. Now women are able to control diabetes better. Scientists told that through stem cell transplant, the woman got special relief from this disease in about two and a half months. Now he can control his sugar level naturally without insulin.
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
First of all, it is important to understand what is Type 1 diabetes and why is it considered dangerous? Type-1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. The disease can occur when the body's immune system begins to destroy the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas itself. Without insulin, sugar starts to build up in your bloodstream causing a lot of damage. So far, the only treatment for people with type 1 diabetes is islet transplantation, in which islet cells are extracted from a deceased person's pancreas and transplanted into the patient's liver.
achieved good results
Stem cell therapy has reportedly opened up new possibilities for the treatment of diabetes. To treat this disease, researchers first took cells from the patient and made some chemical changes in them. In this process the cells were converted into islet cells, after the successful outcome of which the modified cells were transplanted back into the patient's body.
will not need insulin
In June last year, a team of Chinese researchers got approval for clinical research. After which he discovered stem cell transplant treatment. After this treatment, the patient's fasting blood sugar levels gradually returned to normal and the need for insulin injections became less frequent. 75 days after the transplant, the patient no longer needed insulin injections at all. After which experts are saying that this therapy can definitely prove helpful in the treatment of type-1 diabetes.