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Diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic & long-term disease which affects the way the body convert food into energy. This leads too much of sugar in the blood (high blood glucose).
Your body disintegrates the food you eat into sugar which is also known as glucose & releases it into your bloodstream. The pancreas which produces a hormone named insulin, acts like a key that allows blood sugar to enter the body’s cells to be used for energy and chore as resistance.
With diabetes, one’s body either wouldn’t be able to deliver enough insulin or doesn’t properly use the insulin it should produce. When there is not enough insulin or cells stop responding to insulin, it leads to too of much sugar in the bloodstream. In added, this roots to serious health problems, such as heart disease, kidney disease & vision loss…
There is no heal for diabetes yet, but being active, eating healthy & losing weight would help really. Other things you should do:
Take the medication as doctors prescribed.
Get diabetes self-management education & support
Making & attending health care appointments.
Symptoms of Diabetes:
If you are facing any of the following symptoms, consultant your doctor for a sugar test:
Urinate very often, including at night
Very thirsty
weight loss without trying
Very hungry
blurred vision
Pringling hands or feet
Very tired
very dry skin
Sores that heal very slowly
More infections than usual
Types of Diabetic complications:
Infectious problems
Blood vessel complications
Eye problems
Liver damage
Kidney damage
Nerve damage
Foot problems
Types of Diabetes:
Type 1 Diabetes:
People effecting with type 1 diabetes may also have symptoms like vomiting, stomach pain & nausea. The symptoms of type 1 diabetes take shape in few weeks or months & can be acute. This type of diabetes mostly develops in children, adolescents or young adults. On the broad note, it can happen to people of any age.
Type 1 diabetes, as known as juvenile diabetes or insulin dependent diabetes, is a chronic state. Insulin is a hormone which helps to produce energy by allowing sugar (glucose) to enter cells. In this state, the pancreas produces small amount insulin or no insulin.
Various factors such as genetics & some viruses may leads to type 1 diabetes. Even though type 1 diabetes usually appears during childhood or adolescence, it can develop in adults.
Despite a lot of research since decades, type 1 diabetes has no cure. Treatment is directed toward managing the amount of sugar in the blood using insulin, diet & lifestyle to prevent complications.
Symptoms of type 1 Diabetes:
Feeling more thirsty than usual
Urinating a lot
Bed-wetting in children who have never wet the bed during the night
Feeling very hungry
Losing weight without trying
Feeling irritable or having other mood changes
Feeling tired and weak
Having blurry vision
Type 2 Diabetes:
Type 2 diabetes is a detriment of the body regulating sugar (glucose) as a fuel. It is a long lasting (chronic) condition resulting in too much of sugar circulating in the bloodstream. In due course, high blood sugar levels can lead to disorders of the circulatory, nervous & immune systems.
In type 2 diabetes, there are essentially two integral problems at duty. Pancreas does not produce enough insulin — a hormone which synchronize the movement of sugar into your cells — cells respond pretty poorly to insulin & take in less sugar.
The type 2 diabetes symptoms typically develop over several years & could present for a long period without being noticed (sometimes there would be no symptoms at all). This disease mostly appears in adults, despite the fact it is increasingly seen in children, adolescents, and young adults.
Because symptoms are hard to discover, it’s very important to sense your risk factors & see doctor if you have any of the symptoms.
Symptoms of type 2 Diabetes:
Increased thirst
Frequent urination
Increased hunger
Unintended weight loss
Fatigue
Blurred vision
Slow-healing sores
Frequent infections
Insensibility or prickle in the hands or feet
Darkened skin, Typically in the armpits & neck
Gestational diabetes:
Gestational diabetes is the diabetes which happens during pregnancy, generally takes shape in the middle of pregnancy & disappears after giving birth, that doesn’t lead to any symptoms. If you are pregnant, you should take a test for gestational diabetes between 24 & 28 weeks of pregnancy. Such a way you should make the required changes to protect your health & your babies health.
It could happen at any stage of pregnancy, but it is very common in the second or third trimester.
It happens when one’s body couldn’t be able to produce enough insulin, a hormone that helps control blood sugar levels to meet one needs in pregnancy.
Gestational diabetes could lead to problems for you & your baby during pregnancy & after giving birth, but the risk could be brought down if the condition is identified early & well managed.
Symptoms of Gestational Diabetes:
increased thirst
needing to pee more often than usual
a dry mouth
tiredness
blurred eyesight
genital itching or thrush
Diabetes mellitus:
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a disease of undulation between blood levels of glucose. It has subclassifications, including type 1, type 2, gestational diabetes, neonatal diabetes, steroid-induced diabetes & Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
Diabetes mellitus refers to a set of disease which affect how the body uses blood sugar (glucose). Glucose is a vital source of energy for the cells which make up the muscles & tissues. It’s the primary source of fuel for the brain!
The main cause of diabetes differs by types. But no matter what type of diabetes you have, it can lead to surplus sugar in the blood. Too much off sugar in the blood may lead to serious health issues.
Diabetes mellitus is differentiated into two types:
Type 1, in which the body’s immune system completely pounce on the insulin producing cells of the pancreas where more than 90% of them are damaged forever.
Type 2, in which the body expands resistance to the effects of insulin.
In both types, the amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood is upraised.
Causes of Complications of Diabetes Mellitus:
1) Composite sugar-based materials spread out in the walls of small blood vessels, causing them to thicken and leak.
2) Substandard control of blood glucose levels causes the levels of fatty materials in the blood to arise, resulting in atherosclerosis & reduced blood flow in the larger blood vessels.
Diabetes Insipidus:
Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a disease which results in either decreased release of antidiuretic hormone (ADH, also known as vasopressin or AVP) or decreased response to ADH, causing electrolyte imbalances.
It is a rare disorder that causes an imbalance & disparity of fluids in the body which leads to produce large amounts of urine. You feel very thirsty even after taking lot of fluids.
The terms “diabetes insipidus” and “diabetes mellitus” sound similar, they’re not related. Diabetes mellitus — which involves high blood sugar levels and can occur as type 1 or type 2 — is common & often referred to simply as diabetes.
1. Central Diabetes Insipidus (CDI)
2. Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus (NDI)
3. Pregnancy-Induced/Gestational Diabetes Insipidus
4. Primary Polydipsia
There’s no cure for diabetes insipidus, but treatment can relieve your thirst & decrease your urine output & avert dehydration.
symptoms of diabetes insipidus:
Being extremely thirsty
Producing large amounts of pale urine
Frequent urinating during the night
Preferring cold drinks
Heavy, wet diapers
Bed-wetting
Trouble sleeping
Fever
Vomiting
Constipation
Delayed growth &
Weight loss