Timeline of diabetes

By Micaadkins

  • 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.