So I've been on information overload between personal diabetes research and discussing with a few JDRF Foundation advocates(which I am also an advocate now too). A lot of you guys are having kids or have kids in school, and not trying to scare you but we have been told of the kids that get Type 1 diabetes roughly 60% have had Mono/Epstein Barr within the year.
Our son had it last September and it's taken, we assume after discussions, a full year for his bodies anti-bodies to go against his pancreas enough for it to be operating at 20% functionality. He got from another kid and we also learned a kid in his class now just got back to school this past week with the same diagnoses, but we don't know if it was the same kid he caught mono from. Apparently something about that virus turns against beta cells which apparently is what the pancreas is.
With that data there is a lot of research being done to try to counter that.
I am an old school anti doctor/hospital minded idiot, but after this past week and seeing what actually goes into medical research and how the data is studied and dissected that is changing.
Sorry for such a long post just wanted to share.