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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
NEW ORLEANS -- This area has one of the highest rates of diabetes, and with that comes complications.
But now there could be a breakthrough treatment for one of those complications.
In 2011, a Metairie school teacher told us about her diabetes and neuropathy. That's the nerve damage that happens in about 70 percent of diabetics.
"I started feeling the tingling, the tingling that you get, and then you don't notice it at first because it's a slow onset. It's like, one day, it almost feels like pins and needles at some point. And then it gets to be where it's not as active. You don't feel that that tingle anymore," said Susan Doell in November 2011.
At the time, she was trying a prescription of vitamin B called Metanx. It's a medical food made at Pamlab, L.L.C. in Covington, Louisiana that is more like the natural form in foods that better absorb. Tulane Chief of Endocrinology Dr. Vivian Fonseca was testing Metanx along with other doctors around the U.S.
Now that study is over, and results look promising.
http://www.wwltv.com/news/health/Breakthrough-in-treatment-of-diabetes-complications-192405821.html
But now there could be a breakthrough treatment for one of those complications.
In 2011, a Metairie school teacher told us about her diabetes and neuropathy. That's the nerve damage that happens in about 70 percent of diabetics.
"I started feeling the tingling, the tingling that you get, and then you don't notice it at first because it's a slow onset. It's like, one day, it almost feels like pins and needles at some point. And then it gets to be where it's not as active. You don't feel that that tingle anymore," said Susan Doell in November 2011.
At the time, she was trying a prescription of vitamin B called Metanx. It's a medical food made at Pamlab, L.L.C. in Covington, Louisiana that is more like the natural form in foods that better absorb. Tulane Chief of Endocrinology Dr. Vivian Fonseca was testing Metanx along with other doctors around the U.S.
Now that study is over, and results look promising.
http://www.wwltv.com/news/health/Breakthrough-in-treatment-of-diabetes-complications-192405821.html
