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Message: <blockquote data-quote="solana" data-source="post: 280309" data-attributes="member: 44996">I developed type 1 diabetes when I was 16 in 1959 and have now been on insulin for 53 years. I developed it after having a severe attack of Asian flu. My mother told the consultant that I had inherited it from her mother who died from it in 1924 and that it had been brought on by Asian flu. He said "it is not inherited. It is not like haemophilia that is inherited." He said that it runs in families and can skip generations but it will always come out somewhere. In fact he was saying that there is a genetic link. He said that my bout of flu had no influence on my getting it though neither I nor my mother believed this.Re: Flu - I believe that a link has now been established and that after a flu epidemic more people are diagnosed with diabetes though whether that is type 1 or 2 I have no idea. So he was wrong about that.Re: the Genetics - since tracing my family history I have discovered that diabetes is rife in my grandmother's family. I made contact with a 3rd cousin who informed that of his 9 cousins 5 have type 1 diabetes. I was one of three children and I was the only one who got it.In my case it skipped a generation but I decided I could not have any children because I had no right to pass this condition on to future generations. I was aware of the risk. It will be interesting to see whether it manifests itself in the generations that might be born to my brother's children or their children. Maybe it will just die out in this family but I doubt it.</blockquote>

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