Found this very interesting !!!

[David H]

Found this on a US Coeliac Forum and I am passing it on.

Remission without insulin therapy on gluten-free diet in a 6-year old boy with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Summary

A 5-year and 10-month old boy was diagnosed with classical type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) without celiac disease. He started on a gluten-free diet after 2?3 week without need of insulin treatment. At the initiation of gluten-free diet, HbA1c was 7.8% and was stabilised at 5.8%?6.0% without insulin therapy. Fasting blood glucose was maintained at 4.0?5.0 mmol/l. At 16 months after diagnosis the fasting blood glucose was 4.1 mmol/l and after 20 months he is still without daily insulin therapy. There was no alteration in glutamic acid decarboxylase positivity. The gluten-free diet was safe and without side effects. The authors propose that the gluten-free diet has prolonged remission in this patient with T1DM and that further trials are indicated.

Is this just an isolated instance or an important breakthrough? Time will tell.


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[Northerner]

How very strange! And from a reputable source, so they're not trying to sell some sort of miracle cure. I wonder if they gave him a C-peptide test to see what his insulin production was? How would eating gluten-free restore beta-cell function (which presumably he had lost, hence T1 diagnosis)?

 

[trophywench]

Perhaps there's a chemical in wheat that helps the islets die?

Going to read the full article though now cos from the excerpt, I hate the thought of the poor little chap suffering for the first few weeks ....

Bollards, can't.