This leads to attacks of weakness, balance and speech difficulties, and blurry vision. Symptoms get worse over the years as the immune system periodically destroys more myelin. Five hundred patients are now enrolled in a new MS trial. More is known about the animal model of MS than about the animal model of diabetes. When we found positive results in the MS model, we then tried it in the diabetes model.
Doctors can forecast who is likely to get diabetes often years before it strikes.
If proven effective, oral insulin can be a preventive measure, not just a therapy. High Risk Although family members of a person with type I diabetes are at higher risk for developing diabetes, the fact is that most of them will not develop diabetes. Therefore, the researchers won't be giving insulin to all members of the family. If they did, they wouldn't be able to tell whether it was the insulin that prevented diabetes, or simply fate. Subjects of this study will be people whose blood tests show that the immune system attack of the pancreas has already begun.