Please share an interesting fact about type 1 diabetes.

People: People may think that type 1 diabetes is caused by lifestyle choices but it is an autoimmune disease.

Myth:: Myth: people with diabetes can always feel whether their blood sugar levels are high or low.

If: If your sugar is under control, you can live a normal, healthy & long life. Follow your dr's advice!

Make: Make a healthy lifestyle! eat a healthy food with high fiber content, exercise for 30 min a day.

Recommend: Recommend close adherence to the glycemic index diet, regular cardiovascular exercise and bmi <30.

Type: Type 1 diabetes can be diagnosed at any age. It is not just a children's disease.

The: The risk that a child of a woman with t1d will develop the disease is 3%. For fathers 7%.

Type1: Type1 diabetics do not typically have bad lipids & hbp! their complications are secondary to sugar alone!

You: You can lead a totally normal life with proper education, prevention, and control of blood sugar.

Cortisone: Cortisone injections or oral cortisone will raise your blood sugar.

Eat: Eat high fiber foods and also avoid starchy foods such as white bread and rice.

Type: Type 1 is a lifestyle that requires a multi-team approach to care. Find the best team and personalize.

Type: Type 1 diabetes is quite hereditable - myth! type 2 diabetes is more likely to be inherited!

Having: Having type 1 diabetes puts you at increased risk for other autoimmune diseases such as hashimato's.

Myth:: Myth: only people who have family members with diabetes type 1 will get it.

Eat: Eat chocolate instead of donuts, bread or starch. Postprandial glucose is much lower than with carbs.

Gleevec (imatinib): Gleevec (imatinib) and a related drugs remit type 1 diabetes. Human studies will be started within year! hope!

Type: Type 1 diabetics are much less likely to develop heart disease or stroke than type 2 diabetics!

Myth:: It's a myth that type 1 diabetes resolves spontaneously by itself.

Large: Large doses of thiamine (vitamin b1) protect diabetics from complications (thornalley, english doc).

NO: No herb or vitamin will help diabetes.

No: No supplement or herb or vitamin or "natural" remedy or homeopathic snake oil will be of use.

Be: Be consistent with your sleep schedule. Hormones secreted during sleep affect blood sugar.

Heart: Heart disease, cancer, homicide, diabetes, infant death: 5 conditions that limit us life expectancy.

Diabetes: Diabetes 'mellitus'- problem with Insulin & glucose. Diabetes 'insipidus'-problem with salt & kidney.

If: If you pee on the sidewalk and ants come at it, your blood sugar is too high - need tighter control!

Splenda: Splenda is a good substitute for sugar in coffee or tea.

Type: Type 1 diabetes was previously known as juvenile diabetes because it usually starts early in life.

Patients: Patients with Insulin pumps may have better long term health due to tighter blood sugar control.

Try: Try to avoid gluten in your food. A link exists between gluten and diabetes. Good luck!

Only: It's a myth that only young patients get type 1 diabetes. It may affect all ages!

Type: Type 1 diabetes is not just a disease of young children. Adults can get type 1 diabetes as well.

Calorie: Calorie control daily and keeping sugars below 200 helps prevent progressive damage.

Less: Less than 5 % of diabetes are type 1, where the body does not produce enough insulin.

Use: Use a non glass mirror to see the bottom of your feet. Cuts or infections missed can be a disaster.

Avoid: Avoid anything that comes in a package. When it comes to food, keep it fresh and whole.

Ask: Ask your endocrinologist if you are a candidate for an Insulin pump.

Tons: Tons of people live for years with it without knowing. This delays treatment.

Signs: Signs of onset of diabetes type 1 include extreme thirst, frequent urination, weight loss, & fatigue.

Ignore: Decrease the amount of simple carbs and increase the amount if protein and fiber in your diet.

Ignore: Hypoglycemia are more dangerous than hyperglycemia. Hypoglycemia can kill faster.

Ignore: Tight control lowers all complications except hypoglycemic episodes.If this occurs, be ready to treat.

Ignore: More protein like soy, beans, vegetables, moderate whole grains and no sugar.

Ignore: Be active, check bood sugar before and after meals, be quick to make adjusments!

Ignore: You can have sweets! but you much check blood sugar and prepare to adjust for it.

Ignore: If you can afford it use an insulin pump. it will make your life easier.

Ignore: EVERY type 1 (at least adults, but in my opinion kids too) should be on a CGM!!!

Ignore: Type I diabetes is more often inherited through the paternal lineage than through the maternal one.

Ignore: Be open to new technology, most people with Type 1 Diabetes today live a very normal active life.

Ignore: If a child with type one diabetes has siblings, siblings have a 5% chance of developing the disease.