Old treatment for type 1 diabetes, before insulin....?

What did doctors do 100 years ago when a child developed type 1 diabetes.....was there insulin and what happened before insulin was available...

The child died, that simple. Before they discovered insulin, diabetics simply died and nobody was really sure what happened. Type 2 diabetics could live a while longer. Good doctors realized the urine was sweet- the result of the glucose being filtered by the kidneys. They would recommend no sweets and usually various nasty herbal preps that didn't do a lot of good. It worked for some, not for others.

First, there wasn't as much diabetes because people ate a different diet.
The Greek called it Diabetes Mellitus (honey passing through).
Some people were treated with a high fat, low carbohydrate diet that prevented people from getting diabetes. However, most people died from heart attacks, strokes, etc.

Insulin was discovered in 1921-1922 by Banting in Toronto.
Then it was determined it was ineffective if given orally, but could be given subcutaneously.

To my knowledge, there were treatment and cure for Diabetis right from the period of Charaka(300BC). And during Shushrutha's period homeopathy was practised in the name of Thadharthakari Chikitsa and diabetis is curable in homeo also.

There are many sites if you want to go through, I am giving below one of them. Diabetis was termed as Prameha and Madhumeha. You can see more subdivisions what the modern science is not aware of.

www.augustayurveda.com/showarticles.as...

I hope this helps.

in 1921 the canadian frederick grant banting discovered the insulin and that it helps if u have diabetes. Before there was insulin the doctors had no chance to help people with diabetes so they died soon.

i would like to know this too