March
2010
why can’t you cure diabetes (type 1)?5
the title says it all..why can’t you? can’t doctors inject something into your body that produces insulin correctly? or a transplant? or something?
(oh, please don’t say "they’ll never be a cure", you’ll just make me fell bad for myself..ugh, sorry if i sound like a brat)
In normally healthy people, insulin is produced by certain special cells. In diabetics, either those cells don’t produce enough insulin, or they don’t produce any insulin at all.
Transplants work…sort of. Usually diabetics don’t get transplants of just those insulin producing cells, because a transplant patient has to be on an even more regimented treatment plan than a diabetic. So if a diabetic needs a transplant of some other organ, s/he might very well get a transplant of those cells, as well, because s/he’ll have to take anti-rejection medicines and do all that other stuff anyway.
I think that there WILL be a cure. I have no idea when. I think that we should be doing a lot more research with stem cells.

