BCG vaccine could cure type 1

[alexask]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170610134818.htm

Too many coulds and mays really. But anyone want to give it a go. But then surely some here did get this vaccine originally?

 

[tim2000s]

This isn't particularly new news and I know someone who has tried it (to no effect).

The issue in this case is that no-one has been able to replicate the research that Dr Faustman has undertaken, which is one of the key components of any sort of health research.

 

[DiabeticDadUK]

"Could" I'll just add this one to my list of "Cures"

I'm surprised T1 is still around after the thousands of cures that have been touted to me in the last 3 decades.

 

[donnellysdogs]

I had the bcg vaccine!!

 

[alexask]

Yes, well he wants some more money for his next level of research. I think I'll pass without some more compelling evidence.

 

[Natt]

As far as I understood its about giving repeated vaccines during 5 year trial period..they're trying to figure out dosing and effectiveness..I saw that trial recroutment is still open

 

[GrantGam]

I had the bcg vaccine too. And have the nasty scar it left! I had that many years before I developed type 1 though. I don't think k they routinely vaccinate kids against TB now days do they? Hmm.

My year at school were the last to get the BCG vaccine in 2006, it may have been stopped a lot earlier in England though. I developed T1D around 8 years later, so it never worked for me either

 

[TheBigNewt]

I think they quit giving it in the 50's because TB more or less died out, and if you got the vaccine you would forever "flunk" the skin test for exposure. I didn't get it (my dad was a doctor and kept up on that stuff) but I'm still positive for the skin test because I lived in a medical residents apt facility and all the resident docs had been exposed to Tb in Chicago.