Type one diabetes, or diabetes mellitus, involves the loss of insulin producing beta cells of the islets of langerhans within the pancreas. This leads to insulin deficiency. There is no preventive measure to been taken against type one diabetes at this time.

There is a misconception that diabetes can be avoided simply by watching your weight, but this isn’t entirely true. Most affected people are actually of a reasonably healthy weight when diabetes onset occurs.

Treatment of type one diabetes is comprised mainly of insulin treatment, plus diligently monitoring your blood glucose levels with the aid of blood testing monitors.

The Dreaded Finger Prick Tracking your blood sugar with the daily finger prick is the bane of some people’s day, but it must be done.

People with more advanced forms of diabetes, in fact, often check their blood sugar up to four times a day. If you only need to test it once, just remember, the inconvenience HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:14:18 GMT Server: Apache X-Pingback: http://www.marconimedical.com/xmlrpc.php Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

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