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Ukay

Ukay

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Hi everyone,
My son is type 1, diagnosed two months ago. At time of discharge he did a blood test. Came out negative for ICA but GAD was 41.
We made some changes in the type of food e.g. stopped dairy, refine sugar and salt. Recent GAD test was 26 and C peptide was 0.24.
Anyone have similar experience about GAD? Please share. Thanks
 
Thanks. My son was allergic to cow based infant milk formula when he was a baby. He used to get heavy rashes and wheezing. I changed to soy milk. As he grew up, he does not take so much of dairy except for occasional cakes or ice creams. However for the past two years he ate cakes frequently ( because my wife started to do baking as a hobby). I suspect this triggered the auto immune system. I am planning to continue with current diet and check the GAD again in two months time. Hoping that it will reduce further.
 
Cakes certainly did not trigger his immune system. Cakes play no part in the onset of Type 1.
 
Well the ingredients in them.... Milk, creams, cheese. These are all dairy products. Allergy is a reaction of the immune system. My son was allergy to dairy when he was a baby. Even though now he doesn't show external symptoms of allergy we cannot see what is happening internally.
 
I am seeing a lot of improvement in him. Some may say it is the honeymoon period but I think the body is capable of healing. His insulin requirement was 10, 10, 12 before each meal and 26 basal b4 sleep. Now, after two and half month it is about 2, 3, 3 and 10.
 
Ukay said:
Well the ingredients in them.... Milk, creams, cheese. These are all dairy products. Allergy is a reaction of the immune system. My son was allergy to dairy when he was a baby. Even though now he doesn't show external symptoms of allergy we cannot see what is happening internally.
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The other thing in cakes is flour - and gluten has been implicated in the autoimmune process being a clear trigger of one (coeliac) and known to cause the intestinal permeability that is one of the prerequisites of autoimmune disease as outlined by the work of Dr Alessio Fasano.

Glad to hear your son is doing better, Ukay.
 
edit missed the bit about allergy; thought you were cutting it out to try to delay progression.

Unfortunately don't know of any evidence that reducing milk intake will help once type one has been developed and the evidence that it might delay the onset is very mixed. Many people do have a honeymoon period after diagnosis and this may be what you are seeing.

There is some evidence from the DAISY trial that cows milk intake may increase the risk of children with certain genotypes developing islet autoimmunity and also that greater cows milk protein predicts faster progression from islet autoimmunity (ie finding antibodies) to Type 1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pedi.12115/full
So on the face of that I can see why you might feel reducing cows milk protein could be a good idea. (what about other animal milks which have different protein compositions?) There are other studies though that found increased risk, the same risk and even reduced risk. The researchers suggest age may play a part.
Gluten hasn't the same evidence
There have been studies on young children at risk of T1 and gluten. They found that very early introduction of gluten ie at under 3 months increased risk of T1 compared to introduction at 3-6months .(that's very young though and far below guidelines)
However, there was no reduction in risk by removing it from diet. " In conclusion, removal of gluten in islet autoantibody–positive children cannot prevent progression to type 1 diabetes." http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/94/6_Suppl/1821S.long
 
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