Type 1 Diabetes Treatment: Type 1 diabetes is no longer an incurable disease. Recently, it has been completely cured by stem cell transplant in China. You can know about this therapy in detail here.

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease. According to the Lancet report,  in 2021, around 9 million people worldwide were suffering from type 1 diabetes. Of these, 2 million were under 20 years of age, 6 million were 20-59 years old and 2 million were 60 years of age or older.

Although there is no solid cure for this disease, it can be managed with lifestyle changes and medication. But recently Chinese scientists have claimed to cure a type 1 diabetes patient through stem cell transplant. This incident is being considered an important milestone in medical science, and it has been described as the first case of its kind in the world. This discovery was made by a team of researchers from 'Tianjin First Central Hospital' and 'Peking University'. The results of this study were published in the journal 'Cell' last week.

What is type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas completely stops producing insulin. Due to which the level of glucose in the blood starts increasing.  

25 year old girl became diabetes free

According to the Chinese newspaper 'The Paper', the 25-year-old woman was suffering from type 1 diabetes for more than a decade. She has been completely cured of this disease after about 2.5 months of cell transplant.

What is stem cell transplant

In stem cell transplant, damaged cells of the pancreas that produce insulin are replaced with cells from a healthy person. Earlier, a donor was needed for this, which was the biggest drawback of this therapy. But now this process has become easier. Now chemically induced pluripotent stem cells derived from islets are used for transplant. The special thing is that it takes only half an hour.  

Also beneficial in these diseases

Stem cell transplant can not only cure type 1 diabetes but also some types of cancer. It can also prove beneficial in the future for many types of autoimmune diseases.