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Back then treatments/diagnosis of Diabetes
They created their own chemical test to test for diabetes. The treatment was often eating a lot of sugar or eat a lot of meat. They would also say to hold in your urine which is what they defined as diabetes. -
Discovery of Insulin
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer's study of the pancreas was what discovered the term (insulin) which is normally only produced in people that don't have diabetes. -
Starvation Diet
In order to combat diabetes, calorie restriction diets were often promoted which consisted of fasting and having undernutrition. -
Options for Insulin
As insulin started to commercially produce, they were able to produce slow acting to fast acting insulin depending on the circumstances of one's diabetes. -
Prolong Insulin Duration
This was the time when they started to put in protamine in order to prolong the effects of the insulin. It was also able to be mixed with other forms of insulin. -
More Methods of Diagnosis
At the time, tablets were made to be able to determine urine glucose which then lead to urine strips widely available. This is a new modification on how they would diagnose diabetes -
National School Lunch Act
As another way to treat/prevent diabetes, schools began to serve free/low cost healthy meals to the children. -
Insulin Syringe Introduced
They renovated how the insulin is inputed in which reduced over/under dosage and hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. -
Oral Medication for Diabetes
Sulfonylureas was used as an oral medication for diabetes in order to stimulate the pancreas in releasing more insulin. -
Blood Glucose Test Strips
This is another method that was able to indicate whether not you show symptoms of diabetes. These monitors modified to a color code system of monitoring blood glucose. -
Long-Acting Insulin
Lantus, which is a form of long acting insulin, was created as a analog based insulin. -
First Drug from SGLT-2 Class
They finally approved Invokana which is known for lowering high blood sugar for type 2 patients. It blocks sodium glucose to the kidney which then reduce the glucose intake.
