Doctors at the Dr Gaya Prasad Memorial Oration at Patna Medical College (PMC) on Friday said the state's traditional food litti could help insulin-resistant patients tackle the disease.
"Litti, made up of roasted gram powder, can help patients with insulin-resistance problem. One has to avoid certain fruits which can shoot up the insulin level," said Delhi-based consultant diabetologist Narendra Vinny Gupta, a PMC alumnus.
He said insulin resistance could be tackled with a three-month medicine course.
Much before a person develops diabetes, insulin resistance can detect whether one would later develop diabetes or not because insulin resistance causes pre-diabetes. "An early sign of diabetes is insulin resistance. High blood sugar levels damage tissues and organs, so the body works hard to reduce them by producing more insulin. Eventually, the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas get exhausted and Type 2 diabetes develops. Insulin regulates the blood glucose level as a part of metabolism," said Gupta.
Aryabhatta Knowledge University vice-chancellor S.P. Singh, neuro-physician and PMC alumnus Gopal Prasad Sinha, PMC principal S.N. Sinha and others were among dignitaries present.
Ganesh Gopal Krishnan, an alumnus of Chennai Medical College, Vellore, talked about challenges in renal transplants. "A lot of patients come from Bihar to undergo renal transplant at our hospital. There is a need of increasing hospitals in Bihar for renal transplants. The government should increase the number of renal transplant surgeons too."
Yatin Mehta, the chairman of Delhi-based Medanta Institute of Critical Care and Anaesthesiology, talked about the misuse of antibiotics by doctors these days.