Getting Acquainted with Diabetes

Type I :-

Type I is insulin-dependent diabetes, and it can occur at any age, though it most commonly occurs during youth. This type of diabetes used to be known as juvenile-onset diabetes and is still called that by some physicians and health care professionals. About one of every 2,500 children has this disease. Because the pancreas produces little or no insulin, such patients become dependent on outside sources of insulin. Before the discovery of insulin in 1921 children with insulin-dependent diabetes had a short life expectancy. Now the disease can be controlled with insulin, proper diet and exercise, and careful monitoring.