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Strict Diet
- Diagnosis: To determine if you were diabetic you would smell the urine of someone and if it smelled sweet you could assume that they had diabetes.
- Treatment: Strict diet
- Prognosis: Did not relieve diabetes, but still helped
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Lead in Sugar
- Diagnosis: A urine test was done to determine the concentration of sugar in the urine. The doctor would then diagnose you with diabetes because of the high grape- sugar concentration.
- Treatment: Prescribed to take an alkaline- sponge bath, sugar of lead (to reduce urine), creosote, and clear opium. The doctor also recommends eating meat, no sugar, and no drinks.
- Prognosis: A couple days later you went into a coma
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Insulin Discovered
- Diagnosis: The doctor would look at the concentration of glucose in the urine.
- Treatment: Purified insulin injections were given. Doses were to be done twice a day.
- Prognosis: Glucose levels dropped and the person who received the injections seemed healthy. Some people reported pain and abscesses.
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Zinc Insulin
- Treatment: New medication known as protamine zinc insulin became popular.
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Special Diet
- Diagnosis: Look at the retina to find clouds around the arteries, weak pulse in carotid arteries, and a high concentration of glucose in the urine.
- Treatment: Injection of insulin and then continue a special diet that contains: 80 g protein, 80 g fat, 160 g carbohydrates. Another recommendation is to not drink alcohol. At this time meal planners were invented.
- Prognosis: Three months later you are doing well
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Lente Insulins
- Treatment: A new type of insulin introduced on the market.
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Insulin Injections
- Diagnosis: A blood test and urinalysis was done to check glucose levels. The blood test found high sugar concentration and the urine test found high levels of ketones. (Type 1 diabetes)
- Treatment: Go to the hospital immediately to have an IV with insulin and there they will also monitor your health. After this you are given insulin injections and put on a special diet.
- Prognosis: You lived
