Parents of children with Type-1 diabetes (juvenile diabetes) can breathe easy now. Their medical expenses will come down considerably according to Dr CV Krishnaswamy, a leading Chennai physician. “Children with Type-1 diabetes can get remission from their daily shots of insulin injection. We have proved that children with Type-1 diabetes can survive with reduced intake of insulin,” Dr Krishnaswamy, who has more than five decades of research experience in diabetes, told The Pioneer.
The finding comes at a time when children with this medical problem need to be given insulin shots several times a day. “This is the most dreaded form of diabetes which is also known as juvenile onset diabetes. It usually affects children and they have to take insulin several times a day to maintain good health,” said Dr V Mohan, another diabetes specialist. A juvenile diabetic patient needs Rs3,000 worth insulin injections per month. This is excluding the costs for laboratory tests.
There are 67 million diabetic patients in India, according to a study by the Indian Council of Medical Research. One in every 200 diabetic patients in India is a juvenile diabetic patient. “In Tamil Nadu, we have seen that 0.05 per cent of total diabetes patients are children suffering from Type-1 diabetes,” said Dr Krishnaswamy.
Dr Krishnaswamy and his team of medical researchers at TAG-VHS Diabetes Research Centre, Chennai, stumbled across two recently detected Type-1 diabetic children, both of whom are currently showing “remarkable regression” of the diabetic state with significant reduction in their insulin dosage.
“One of the children could survive for three weeks without any insulin. His blood sugar was normal during the period,” said Dr Krishnaswamy. The dosage of insulin consumed by the other child (13 years) came down to half of what he was being administered before the treatment. The results from the second child are also exciting and encouraging, said Dr Deepa Krishnaswamy. “We will come out with more information after publishing these findings in a peer reviewed medical journal,” she said.The team took a holistic approach route of investigation and diagnosis.
"This was an integrated system which incorporated the conventional allopathic medicine with Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field Therapy (PEMFT) developed by late Dr Glen Gordon and Meta Physical Energy Therapy developed by Rajan Iyer, a traditional physician from Chennai," explained Dr Krishnaswamy.
Iyer had cured a 73-year-old woman of acute pancreatic disorder by a technique known as Dynamic Acupuncture Mediated Metaphysical (DAMM) therapy. "We deployed the DAMM therapy to damn the diabetes," said Iyer. But he was quick to add that his treatment was supplementary in nature with Dr Krishnaswamy and other doctors playing the lead role.
According to Dr Krishnaswamy, the integrated therapy introduces a kind of energy into the human body to effect corrections in dysfunctional cells. "If the cells are dead and non-functional, this therapy will not work. But we found that dysfunctional cells get rejuvenated in a dramatic fashion," he said.
Both the children are monitored 24X7 by the doctors of TAG-VHS Diabetes Research Centre, according to Dr Ramesh Chandrasekaran, deputy leader of the team. "Exciting things are in the offing. Once we study 100 cases in the next three years, we are sure that the results will be a giant leap in the history of juvenile diabetes research," said Dr Chandrasekaran.
Insulin is the hormone that is produced by a cluster of cells present in pancreas. "This hormone is essential for burning up of all the calories that we eat and convert them into energy. lack of this hormone in the body or the failure of these hormones to utilise the calories can lead to diabetes," explained Dr Krishnaswamy. lack of hormones lead to Type-1 diabetes while failure of the hormones to convert calories leads to Type-2 diabetes.
Type-1 diabetes which occurs in children below the age of 15 years is due to the deficiency of these hormones. They require multiple shots of insulin daily throughout their life. "Before the discovery of insulin injection in 1921 which was first used in human beings in 1922 all children with Type-1 diabetes died at a young age due to diabetic coma," said Dr Krishnaswamy.
All efforts by researchers in the west to find a permanent solution to the juvenile diabetes has come to a nought and children born with the problem are surviving only because of insulin injections.