Aspartame And Type 1 Diabetes

My daughter with type 1 diabetes had a diet soft drink last week and ended up in intensive care with severe metabolic acidosis and extremely high blood sugars. She almost died. She stops aspartame and makes a full recovery, reintroduces it and goes into metabolic acidosis. She has had 60+ admissions to hospital, quite a few of them being aspartame related. She has not been able to go to school or work. In the past she has had seizures, missed periods, enlarged liver, hair loss, blacking out, vomiting, acidosis, not remembering anything, loss of diabetic control, mood changes, heart palpitations, heavy breathing, calcifications in the brain, abscesses, 3 operations to remove them, all related to aspartame. This has gone on for over 3 years. She now reacts to most medications. We all switched to diet products 17 years ago when my son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I had unexplained vision loss over a period of 2 weeks. If it had not been for a nurse who told us the diet drinks caused all those problems, my daughter would have died a long time ago. I suspected something was not quite right with diet drinks before those problems manifested. Every time she would have a diet drink her blood sugars would go high. This does not happen with normal sugar. Neurosurgeon advised my daughter not to take the contraceptive pill because it contains artificial sweetners. I have also had 2 parents email me telling me that their daughters have seizures when they have diet drinks and these girls are not diabetic. It has been a struggle trying to convince some doctors that aspartame is the culprit.

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Study Underway On Whether Aspartame Affects Sensitive People

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