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N-Acetyl Glucosamine & Type 1 Diabetes
by JHA's Mom, Aug 30, 2007 12:00AM
Has anyone tried using n-acetyl glucosamine in conjunction with their normal insulin regamin (UCI study in August showed it might help)?
My 10 year old type 1 diabetic son (diagnosed in 2002) has been taking 3 mg of n-acetyl glucosamine each day for 3 months, and we have seen a reduction in the amount of insulin he needs of about 10 % and a "evening out" of his blood sugars. In addition, he has had celiac antibodies all these 5 years (but no evidence of celiac in his endoscopy) and his TTG IGA antibodies dropped in half over this same time period (from 150+ to 74).
Anyone else having this experience?
My 10 year old type 1 diabetic son (diagnosed in 2002) has been taking 3 mg of n-acetyl glucosamine each day for 3 months, and we have seen a reduction in the amount of insulin he needs of about 10 % and a "evening out" of his blood sugars. In addition, he has had celiac antibodies all these 5 years (but no evidence of celiac in his endoscopy) and his TTG IGA antibodies dropped in half over this same time period (from 150+ to 74).
Anyone else having this experience?
Doctor's Answer
by JDRF-VOL-RL, Aug 31, 2007 12:00AM
Hi! I'm not a medical professional, just the parent of a kid with diabetes. N-acetyl glucosamine is prescribed because of joint pain, I believe. There is no direct evidence I can find which shows a causation between n-acetyl glucosamine and lower blood sugars. Likely the lower insulin requirements you're seeing are because your son's body is under less stress, so his blood sugars are lower.
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I began taking 2 Jarrow Formulas N-A-G 750 mg every day since 5/23/2007. I've had diabetes since 1970. I saw no results the first 100 days, but in the last few weeks have seen similar result to JHA's Mom. I've always had high BSers in the morning, but it in the last couple weeks they have been low.
I'm very skeptical of everything and would not want to give anybody false hope. This still maybe nothing, but others might want to give it a try.
I am interested in trying n-acetyl glucosamine in conjunction with her normal insulin treatement. But I don't found a product with very small amount per serving (the less we found on the internet is 500 mg per serving).
Can you please help us.
We are living in Paris, France. My email is ***@****
Thank you.