Question:
From Hastings, England:
As a father who has diabetes type 1 with children who also have diabetes type 1, I have been researching C-Peptide and appreciated your previous synopsis on the topic. Would you please tell those who wish to learn more where we may obtain information on C-peptide and how they may obtain C-Peptide supplementation?
Answer:
I am sorry to fail you; but I cannot come up with a supplier of
C-peptide
for human use. In the United States it has not been approved;
but recently there was a limited but careful study from the Karolinska
Institute in Stockholm that reported favorably on the use of C-peptide in
conjunction with insulin in new onset
autoimmune
diabetes. Our reply
to an earlier enquiry provoked a spirited correspondence with a nonmedical
American resident in Sweden who told us that a German firm was about to
make this product available.
Your own diabetes physician might have the answer; but if not I
would try to see if the regional representative for Lilly or Boots or
Novo [insulin manufacturing companies] can dig it out for you. Their
research departments would be sure to
know of any such venture. It would, by the way, be a mistake to start
C-peptide on yourself or any other member of the family without the
complete concurrence of the physician involved.
DO'B
Original posting 11 Jun 1998
Posted to Research: Other
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