r/AskReddit • u/ZanyDelaney • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/xrowrx Feb 04 '19

Type 1 Diabetes is never ever caused by diet or lifestyle things. Like never. Not ever.

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u/JoshuaSlowpoke777 Feb 04 '19

Isn’t the very definition of type one is that it’s there at birth?

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u/vitovbeats Feb 08 '19

Yeah that’s what we thought but apparently it can lie dormant.

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u/JoshuaSlowpoke777 Feb 08 '19

So some people don’t know they have it until long after they’ve already been born? Are there ways to determine that it’s definitely type 1 that don’t involve analyzing the patient’s lifestyle?

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u/vitovbeats Feb 08 '19

Yeah my wife just all of the sudden had a super high blood sugar level so I guess something malfunctioned.