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Type 1 Diabetes – often called juvenile diabetes – usually strikes young people and continues lifelong in most cases.  It can bring along with it a parade of side effects and other serious health issues that can worsen as time goes on.

For years, parents and their children sometimes struggle with Type 1 Diabetes and its other health issues for years – even a lifetime.  According to reports from Web MD and other sources, it is thought that studies have found hope.   Their research has revealed that is very possible that there may be a way to delay or even prevent Type 1 Diabetes.

Because Type 1 Diabetes usually begins when a person is extremely young, it happens when part of the immune system is still growing and getting stronger.  The way this happens in Type 1 Diabetes is that the
T-lymphocyte part of a child or young person’s immune system actually attacks the beta cells which are located in the pancreas.  The major problem with this is that the beta cells create insulin, and as a result, if the T-lymphocytes are attacking and/or destroying the beta cells, there will always be a lack of insulin.

The good news is that the research studies have revealed that B-lymphocytes can help boost immunity from T-lymphocytes so that they do not attack and destroy the beta cells.  As a result, if using B-lymphocytes cancel out the T-lymphocytes, Type 1 Diabetes can now be put at bay or even avoided entirely, depending on the individual and their particular health situation.

Studies in mice showed that this worked well.  78 individuals diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes showed positive results when studied over the period of one year.  The tests showed that the researchers were able to slow down the loss of the cells that produce insulin which means that the tests were working well at boosting the immunity from the T-lymphocytes and making them more ineffective, so that insulin levels stayed more level and more normal.

Though there is more research needed, this is very good news for individuals who struggle with Type 1 Diabetes.  The National Institutes of Health, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the American Diabetes Association provided the funding for the research.  Further studies will continue.