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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Australian doctors say they have perfected a procedure which stops life-threatening complications in patients with type 1 diabetes.
They have found that transplanting human pancreas cells can stop patients passing out without warning.
The procedure has meant many people have been able to give up using insulin completely.
Sydney woman Ruth Cummock lived for years with the fear that she might pass out because of complications she suffered from type 1 diabetes.
"They were scary.. on occasions you would be aware of it and if your blood sugar dropped you would be able to do something about it, but the unrecognised ones, it would be too late to do anything," she said.
"It gave me a lot more independence. It means I can do what I want when I like," Ms Cummock said.
"Not having to rely on other people has just been great."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-13/an-new-type-two-diabetes-treatment/4752524
They have found that transplanting human pancreas cells can stop patients passing out without warning.
The procedure has meant many people have been able to give up using insulin completely.
Sydney woman Ruth Cummock lived for years with the fear that she might pass out because of complications she suffered from type 1 diabetes.
"They were scary.. on occasions you would be aware of it and if your blood sugar dropped you would be able to do something about it, but the unrecognised ones, it would be too late to do anything," she said.
"It gave me a lot more independence. It means I can do what I want when I like," Ms Cummock said.
"Not having to rely on other people has just been great."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-13/an-new-type-two-diabetes-treatment/4752524