Have you ever heard of the islet tree?
Some people say that eating its leaves can also reduce blood sugar?
Uncle Liu, 63, a diabetic, bought a pancreatic islet tree online, whose leaves soak in water and blood sugar rises instead of falling.

Recently, the outpatient department of endocrinology and Metabolism affiliated hospital of Southwest Medical University walked into a big man with a small flower pot in his hand and a green plant growing inside the pot.

Big ye ask: “doctor, you see me this’ pancreas islet tree ‘orthodox school not?
I how feel hypoglycemic effect not good Ann?”

Li Yonglin, a doctor attending a leng, what “islet tree”?
Can it also lower blood sugar?
Then hurriedly cross-examine old man……

Trouble with insulin injection
Grandpa bought an “islet tree” online

Uncle Liu has been suffering from diabetes for 10 years and relies on insulin injection every day to control his blood sugar.
Day after day after day, Uncle Liu felt it was very troublesome to go out with insulin and needle for injection.

Uncle Liu happened to talk with an old friend and learned that there is a kind of plant called “islet tree”, insulin is extracted from its leaves.
Diabetics only need to buy one plant and pick a few leaves and soak water every day to play a hypoglycemic role. It is all natural, without additives and side effects, and there is no need to pump insulin every day.

Search results for “islet tree” on the Internet

Uncle liu bought a “islet tree” through WeChat group to go home, and always loosen the soil, water, wipe the leaves…
Take care of it as a treasure. Pick a few leaves every day and put them into a teacup. Take a teacup when you go out.

The “Islet tree” circulating on the Internet

Aggravation of
Grandpa’s blood sugar rises instead of falling

However, after a month, Uncle Liu’s blood sugar did not drop but rose, and his symptoms such as foot numbness, dizziness and frequent nocturnal urination were aggravated successively.
Uncle Liu began to doubt whether “islet tree” is not authentic.
So he went to the hospital to ask the doctor.

After understanding the situation, Li Yonglin can not laugh or cry, said: “Sir, you may be fooled.”
Uncle Liu facial expression changes, how does a responsibility ah?
Isn’t insulin extracted from the islet tree?

Li yonglin explained that insulin is the only protein hormone secreted by beta cells of the pancreas to lower blood sugar. It is secreted by the body’s own cells, which can help keep blood sugar stable in the normal range. It is not extracted from plants…

After hearing the doctor’s advice, Uncle Liu began to inject again and stopped insulin for a month.

The doctor reminds, diabetic patient, if blood sugar control is poor or to diabetes or the treatment of diabetes does not understand, should seek advice to the regular hospital, do not believe the small advertisement outside.

For the treatment of diabetes, the “five carriages” principle is advocated:

◆ Diabetes education is known as “treatment education”, which can not only help patients to establish a good psychological state and lifestyle, but also enable patients to find diabetes early, understand relevant knowledge, master the basic skills of diabetes control, and achieve the goal of improving the quality of life.

◆ Diet treatment for diabetes should control total calories, have a balanced diet, choose diversified and nutritious food, eat a small amount of meals regularly and regularly, and avoid smoking.

◆ Exercise therapy can not only promote blood circulation, improve cardiopulmonary function, but also reduce weight, blood sugar and blood lipids. You can choose a suitable exercise mode under the guidance of your doctor according to your own conditions.

◆ There are many kinds of hypoglycemic drugs. Specialists will choose the best hypoglycemic plan according to the characteristics of drugs and the individual situation of patients.
Therefore, do not blindly follow hypoglycemic drugs, carefully listen to the doctor’s advice, adhere to the timing and quantitative medication.

◆ Monitor fingertip blood glucose by yourself, go to the hospital for regular review of hBA1c, and adjust medication according to the detection situation.
To improve the screening of related complications regularly, early detection, early intervention, early benefit.

Germany was not hit as hard by the SARS-COV-2 pandemic as many other European countries.
This was due to the late arrival of the wave of infections in Germany, alerted by the situation in Italy and Spain, which ordered an early blockade and conducted extensive testing.
As of 2 June 2020, There were 182,028 cases of COVID-19 in Germany, including 8,522 deaths.
As in other countries, dialysis patients are at high risk because they tend to be older, have more complications and, of course, have compromised immune systems.
A practical problem that increases the risk is that they cannot stop treatment and must go to the dialysis room three times a week, meaning strict home isolation is not possible for these high-risk patients.

Photo credit: NIAID.

Germany has established a registry to investigate the prevalence and clinical outcomes of dialysis patients suffering from SARS-COV-2 infection.
As of the end of May, about 2 percent of patients enrolled in dialysis — about 300 out of 14,000 — had tested positive for SARS-COV-2, and these patients proved to have a poor prognosis: the mortality rate was about 20 percent.
The second phase of the registry will also include patients with acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease and will investigate their clinical outcomes and prognostic factors.

However, not only do patients with kidney disease have a higher risk of sarS-COV-2 infection, they also have a more severe course of COVID-19 – data also suggest that the kidney may be the target organ for the viral disease.

Early data from CoVID-19 in China include some surprising findings: Kidney involvement often seems to occur in people who test positive for SARS-COV-2 and develop symptoms.
After a major epidemic occurred in Wuhan in 2020, a continuous cohort study was conducted on coVID-19 patients admitted to three branches of a third-grade a teaching hospital in Wuhan. Clinical parameters such as hematuria, proteinuria, serum creatinine concentration, and the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) were analyzed.
At admission, 44% of patients had proteinuria and 26.7% had hematuria.
AKI occurred in 5.1% of patients.
After adjusting for confounders, all renal involvement indicators were associated with a higher risk of in-hospital death.
The authors had suggested in February that clinicians should raise awareness of renal involvement in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

In fact, another study showed a significant increase in the incidence of AKI in hospitalized patients.
Of the 4259 patients who did not require mechanical ventilation, 925 had AKI (any stage) and 9 required renal replacement therapy.
The incidence was significantly higher in aerated patients — 276 (23.2%) of 1,190 patients required dialysis.
The main conclusion of these authors is that AKI occurs frequently in coVID-19 patients.
It occurs early, is associated with respiratory failure over time, and is associated with poor prognosis.

Clearly, COVID-19 can cause kidney damage.
In a postmortem study in Hamburg, Germany, viral load analysis was performed on tissue samples from different organs from 27 postmortem coVID-19 patients.
It was found that while the lungs were most affected by the novel Coronavirus, other organs, especially the kidneys, were also affected.
In addition, samples from seven patients were used to investigate which renal regions were particularly affected, and the results showed that the viral load of renal tubules, especially glomerular cells, was high.

These findings are consistent with clinical observation.
The glomeruli perform the filtering function of the kidneys, and the tubules are responsible for reabsorption.
Many patients have been found to have abnormal urine, especially proteinuria, in the early stages of COVID-19.
The question is how to use these findings.”

A research team from Germany gottingen and from Hamburg (Germany), cologne (Germany) and aachen team closely, is currently studying early sign of kidney involvement, such as proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia and antithrombin Ⅲ lack, whether can be early risk assessment and stratification of patients.
These patients are at higher risk for complications such as pulmonary edema and thromboembolism, such as the dreaded pulmonary embolism.
A recently initiated study is currently under way to investigate the prognostic significance of renal parameters.

In October 2016, the British Ministry of Public Health conducted the “Swan Cygnus Exercise”, coordinating more than 950 people, from the Minister of Health to local emergency planners to prison officials, to test whether the UK can respond to a global pandemic. The simulated situation at the time was flu.

The conclusion of this exercise was that the United Kingdom did not have sufficient capacity to cope with the “extreme demand” similar to a pandemic. The report was sent to all major government departments and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The report made 26 key recommendations, including the establishment of a comprehensive “pandemic action concept” to prepare for a “surge of stress” in the health system under a pandemic. The report clearly recommends that in a pandemic, “recently retired nurses should be returned to cope with the additional pressure”. The report also warns that if nursing homes are required to accept hospital patients, their capacity is still extremely insufficient and they will face huge challenges.

This time the New Crown Virus has swept the nursing homes in the UK. In Scotland, 60% of new crown deaths occur in nursing homes, and one third of all new crown deaths in the UK occur in nursing homes. There is a shortage of basic personal protective equipment in nursing homes, and the most susceptible elderly groups cannot be protected.

Recently, the Minister of Health Matt Hancock was asked about the report on the “Swan Cyrillic Exercise.” He said that the Ministry of Health officials assured him that “all the recommendations in the report have been implemented.”

However, Care England, the UK ’s largest pension service provider, said that the government agencies did not propose to them the concerns raised in the report about the nursing home system and the solutions to the problems.

Public opinion questioned that if the recommendations in this exercise report can be implemented, Britain can respond much better in a pandemic.