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Severe Calorie Restriction Promoted to Treat Diabetes
Although atrocious and horrible. It was the first attempt to come up with a treatment for diabetes. This would be the standard treatment until insulin therapy came around. -
First Person with Diabetes Treated with Insulin
This was a giant leap. Because now they new diabetes could be treated with insulin. -
Commercial Production of Insulin Began
Now it was possible for people to survive if they had diabetes. Because now they had a proper treatment. And to be honest it was probably cheaper back then even when accounting for inflation, than it is now. -
Tablets for Testing Urine Glucose Became Available
Before this. They were just giving insulin without knowing a blood sugar, so now they could some what tell a blood glucose. -
Glucagon Introduced to Treat Hypoglycemia
Now you could stop a patient from dying of low blood sugar -
First Glucose Meter Used in Clinics
Now they could check a blood sugar and give insulin based on that. -
Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Infusion Available
This was the first step to widely available cgms. And artificial pancreas’s. -
Portable Insulin Pumps Introduced
Now you could give insulin anytime. And not have to go to a doctor. -
Synthetic Insulin Produced
Now insulin could be produced cheap, and fast. And yet they still sell it for like 200 dollars a vial. -
Tight Glucose Control Shown to Reduce Complications in Type 1 Diabetes
Now we are basically at modern times. We have an insulin pump. A cgm. And if you control your glucose, the side effects of diabetes lessen.