Immune-mediated diabetes is another term for Type-1 diabetes. In immune-mediated diabetes cell in the pancreas are destroyed by the body’s own immune system. This eventually leads to the total failure of the body’s ability to produce insulin, a hormone which is needed to allow to cells to use the sugar in your body for energy. When your body does not have insulin, blood sugar builds up in your bloodstream and causes bodily damage. Without it you would die.
People with immune-mediated diabetes must take at least one shot of insulin a day. It is injected under the skin. There is no pill for insulin because the juices in your stomach would destroy it. Currently, scientists are looking for new way that insulin could be administered.
Immune-mediated diabetes may occur suddenly. There are many ways to detect it. The symptoms of immune mediated diabetes are as follows:
- High levels of sugar
