Is Winter To Blame For Type 1?

Cold has nothing to do with how much D your body can make, it's your latitude from the sun. Even Californians tend to be in the low range on the Vitamin D study, which is based in California. For sure get your levels checked, it continues to make headlines as they learn more about it.

I was diagnosed in Oct and it was not that cold. I did not have any other illness at the time. But I do want to have my Vitamin D level checked.

I was diag

And would you not attribute getting sick in the first place to vitamin D deficiency over the winter? I too was sick before being diagnosed with strep throat. This past year my family has been on high doses of vitamin D (6,500 IU for adults, 2,000 IU for the tots) and it has been an incredibly healthy winter for us. Usually someone would have a hacking cough or fever every 3-4 weeks all winter. Agree with the correlation/causation concern, but have to believe that for many of us, there is a direct link.

I gave this two stars for interest factor, but be very careful, as there is a big difference between correlation and causation. My diagnosis came after being really sick for 2 weeks. Then bam full blown onset. When you are sick your body needs more insulin and if in my case the virus is actually attacking the pancrease then you have a double whammy. But it wasn't the winter that caused it, but the illness in May. Cold tempuratures don't make you sick, germs do. But in winter with everyone spending more time inside, it's more likely to spread and infect more people. This would create a correlation of winter to higher rates of onset due to illness complications, but not a causation. Same with amount of UV light, correlation likely.

I was diagnosed in December, just recently… interesting.

It was Feb/Mar for me during a bout of pneumonia-except I was hardly a kid. I was 60

My son was diagnosed August 26.

If you can stand to sit and watch for 40 minutes, here's a great video about how diabetes rates go up as exposure to sun goes down around the world:

http://www.ucsd.tv/search­-details.aspx?s...

hmmm… interesting. i was diagnosed on October 20th, 2000. I had symptoms for only 1 week.

i know 2 other people with type 1 though- and come to think of it, i think they were both diagnosed in winter.

I was diagnosed in April but after we knew what I had, we realized I had had symptoms since atleast the summer before! The Doctor told my Mom at that time that it was caused by a viral infection. The year was 1981. :)

I was diagnosed in mid April.

I was diagnosed in January (but in hindsight, started having problems in mid-December).

Unless you're outside, with skin exposed, for many hours a day, it's hard to be D deficient even in the summer. So October wouldn't be a stretch to start going low.

I was diagnosed in October-not quite winter.

Troy was diagnoised in December

This was a very interesting article. It amazes me how many factors that could come into play when doing research concerning the causes of Diabetes. It seems that lately more studies ahve been done concerning Type 2. I was glad to see this research on Type 1.

If you find that interesting, and be sure to review this summary of the rise of Type 1 in Finland as they lowered the suggested minimum dosage of Vitamin D 30 years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1632649.stm

and

http://blog.drwhitaker.co­m/blog/natural-...