Frederick Banting, a Canadian doctor and Charles Best, a medical student, set out to find out a substance in the pancreas that would lower blood sugar. For a whole summer they worked. They started to identify a substance from the islets of Langerhans. They called it isletin, which was later changed to insulin. Banting and Best injected a dog diagnosed with diabetes. Very quickly, the dog’s blood sugar level dropped. Repeats were done and the same results surfaced. Some symptoms that these diabetic dogs had were also found in humans as well. The constant need to urinate along with being thirsty were just a few. Other symptoms that were common in people were hunger, headaches, drowsiness and many diabetics were often over weight.As said before, diets are recommended by doctors to help control a patient’s diabetes. A diet composed of low carbohydrates, low sugar and a low fat diet is recommended. Doctors state that if you are overweight and then lose it, this can help to prevent diabetes. However, if diabetes runs in your family, you are a likely candidate for developing it.Besides being a disease in itself, diabetes can also cause other types of diseases as well. Various skin lesions such as abscesses, ulcers, eczema and bullous lesions can occur. These things can occur due to lack of insulin or too much insulin. So it’s very important for the body to maintain its insulin. Besides skin diseases, diabetes can also affect other parts of the body such as the eyes. Here, diabetes can cause blindness due to glaucoma and retina atrophy. Also, insulin dependent diabetics should often rotate injection sites for if not, the injections can cause indentations, excessive fat and a thickened skin build up.Diabetics can also develop hypoglycemia which is low blood sugar. With Hypoglycemia, there is an overproduction of insulin. This can occur when a diabetic person has injected too much insulin, eaten too little food, ...
