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Accept the challenge & celebrate World Diabetes Day with us
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Accept The Challenge And Join Us In Celebrating World Diabetes Day

by tanja November 10, 2020

Our favorite month has finally come. Do you know why November is special for people with diabetes? Because November is Diabetes Awareness Month! Each year, 14th of November marks the celebration of World Diabetes Day. This day is celebrated globally to raise awareness about diabetes. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) introduced this day in 1991.

The aim of this day is spreading the message about diabetes and raising awareness for the condition. Comprising hundreds of campaigns, screenings, activities, lectures, meetings and more are some of the ways how people around the world celebrate this day.

November 14th is a significant date because it marks the birthday of the man who co-discovered insulin, Frederick Banting. Banting discovered insulin in 1922, alongside Charles Best.

Join us in celebrating this incredible community all month long — and especially on World Diabetes Day. You can get involved in different ways: you can inspire others, educate peers. Or you can simply wear something blue.

Accept the challenge – Climb 5000 m for 5000 people with diabetes

On the occasion of November 14th – World Diabetes Day, Bojan Kirov-Jimi, a person with type 1 diabetes, will try to climb the top of Mount Vodno (1060) 5 times, which will dedicate 1 meter to each child and an adult with type 1 diabetes – 5000 in Macedonia.

Accept the challenge - Climb 5000 m for 5000 people with diabetes in Macedonia

For each attempt, 3 people will accompany Bojan Kirov, at a safe distance of 2 meters. Also, at the top, there will be a medical team that will take care of the health and safety of Bojan and the other people who will join him.

Due to the current situation with COVID-19, please express your support through social networks by sharing information about diabetes. Or you can simply climb the top of Vodno or another peak near you. Please adhere to the prescribed measures and recommendations for protection and prevention of COVID-19!

Find more information about this challenge on this link.

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On January 11th 1922, Insulin Was First Used To Treat Diabetes
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On January 11th 1922, Insulin Was First Used To Treat Diabetes

by tanja January 12, 2020

January 11th 1922 is a very important day in the history of diabetes. On this day, the insulin was first used in the treatment of diabetes.

On January 11th 1922

January 11th 1922 is the day when the lives of people with diabetes changed

A fourteen-year-old Leonard Thompson, who had diabetes, was dying at the Toronto General Hospital. The doctors gave him the first injection of insulin – a pancreatic extract prepared by Dr. Frederick Banting, and medical student, Charles Best. However, the extract was so impure that Thompson suffered a severe allergic reaction.

Over the next 12 days, James Collip worked day and night to improve the ox-pancreas extract. On the 23rd of January, they injected him a second dose of insulin. Luckily, this was completely successful. The boy’s blood sugar levels dropped to normal levels. Thompson would live another 13 years with daily injections of insulin, before dying of tuberculosis.

A dramatic moment

Doctors kept the children dying from diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in large wards, often with 50 or more patients in a ward, mostly comatose. Grieving family members were often in attendance, awaiting the (until then, inevitable) death. In one of medicine’s more dramatic moments Banting, Best, and Collip went from bed to bed, injecting an entire ward with the new purified extract. Before they had reached the last dying child, the first few were awakening from their coma, to the joyous exclamations of their families. Although it was not a cure, it was a monumental breakthrough in treatment for diabetes.

Published paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal

In March 1922, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published a paper in which described the case of Leonard Thompson, and six other patients the Banting and Best team treated with the refined extract. Additionally, this was the first official announcement of an extract developed to alleviate the symptoms of diabetes.

“A message of hope to sufferers from diabetes goes out authentically today from the medical research laboratories of the University of Toronto. The modesty of medical men and scientific investigators of the genuine brand attempts to minimize the results obtained. The harm of exaggeration and the injustice to both parents and research men in awakening false and premature hopes before the extracts can possibly be manufactured cannot be over-emphasized. But the fact remains that one of the most important discoveries in modern medical research has been made at the university here. It is not a cure for diabetes, its authors state. Within six months, however, their discovery will be used on a large scale, they hope, to prolong life quite considerably at least. There will be no secrecy, as from the beginning. The medical profession will know all the facts.”

— The Toronto Daily Star – March 22, 1922 Edition


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Happy World Diabetes Day!
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Happy World Diabetes Day!

by tanja November 14, 2018

Do you know what day is it today? It is WORLD DIABETES DAY! 🙂

In 1991, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) introduced this day. As a result, the primary goal of this day is a global awareness campaign focusing on diabetes mellitus and is held on 14 November each year. Likewise, this day marks the birthday of the man who co-discovered insulin, Frederick Banting in 1992, alongside Charles Best.

On this day, the associations, medical professionals, and individuals all over the world join together to celebrate this day. Also, the theme for this day and Diabetes Month for 2018 and 2019 is The Family and Diabetes.

International Diabetes Federation (IDF) chose the blue circle as a symbol of World Diabetes Day. In many cultures, a circle symbolizes life and health. The blue color evokes the color of the sky, while the flag of the United Nations and the circle is a symbol of unity. Hundreds of thousands of people with diabetes throughout the world recognize the blue circle.

Me with the national blue circle.

Also, a lot of people throughout the world celebrate this special day. A truly global event, it occurs in over 200 diabetic member associations, in over 160 different countries.

Moreover, each famous buildings and monuments all over the world are lit up in blue. This powerful and striking image helps to spread the message about World Diabetes Day to diabetics and non-diabetics alike.

World Diabetes Day  - Me and my family celebrating this day!
World Diabetes Day  - Me and my boyfriend celebrating this day!

Conclusion

To summarize, I would like to wish you a Happy World Diabetes Day! 🙂 May all you of you celebrate this day with your loved ones. I wish you to be happy, to accept your life with diabetes and to continue with your regular control. Last but not least, may all of you have a normal range of the blood sugar level during the whole year.

People with diabetes celebrate the World Diabetes Day!
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