Diabetes is an autoimmune disease when there is too much glucose in the blood. Finally the first-ever diabetes vaccine has been officially presented.Salvador C. Ramirez, president of the foundation Vive your Diabetes and Lucila Z. Ortega, the president of the Mexican Association for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases elaborated that the vaccine cannot cure the disease, but it showed significant improvement in all of the cases.
For the first time, we’ve managed to standardize a saline solution for any type of diabetes, whether it is 1, 2, gestational or congenital However, this vaccine is not the cure for diabetes but a solution for the disease progression. It can be used both in children and adults and it does not cause side effects. The vaccine lasts for 60 days and the treatment is about one year. This vaccine is much more than a medicine; it is a medical practice that has turned into an alternative, a possible solution to stop the complications that are chronically degenerative: embolism, loss of ear; amputation, renal insufficiency and blindness.
FDA will test the vaccine on 150 people who are in an advanced stage of type one diabetes. Type 1 diabetes occurs when a person is unable to produce insulin because of a problem with their immune system.
Dr. Denise Faustman, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Immunobiology Laboratory in Boston has said about the vaccine: In the phase I (preliminary) trial we demonstrated a statistically significant response to BCG, but our goal in (this trial) is to create a lasting therapeutic response. We will be working again with people who have had type 1 diabetes for many years. This is not a prevention trial instead; we are trying to create a regimen that will treat even advanced disease.
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