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> He now has Type 1 diabetes, a condition one is normally born with Type 1 Diabetes isn't something someone is born with. Rather, it's something that you gener
by RHSeeger 2y ago
> He now has Type 1 diabetes, a condition one is normally born with
Type 1 Diabetes isn't something someone is born with. Rather, it's something that you generally get when young (and, in fact, it used to be called Juvenile Diabetes, vs Adult Onset, which is what Type 2 used to be called), but it can happen later in line, all the way into the 20s (or later, I believe).
There is a genetic component, but it's also completely possible to get it with no family history.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoDidn't realise it was autoimmune. Nevertheless, in his case it was directly caused by Covid attacking the pancreas. That said, he got it in 2020. The virus got milder over successive generations. (Intrinsically and due to broader vaccination and antiviral administration.)
- RHSeeger 2y agoThere's actually a couple different "types" of Type 1 Diabetes. For example, you can get it during pregnancy (Gestational Diabetes), etc. So it doesn't surprise me that it's possible to get it from Covid. I seem to recall someone getting it from an injury that damaged the Pancreas enough to prevent it from generating insulin. I don't know if that still "counts" as Type 1; but it certainly has the same effects.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> an injury that damaged the Pancreas enough to prevent it from generating insulin. I don't know if that still "counts" as Type 1 It does. Type 1 is fundamentally about an inability to produce insuline. Type 2, an inability to respond to it.