Diabetes is a chronic and incurable disease. It results from a body’s inner imbalance, related to blood sugar disorder. It is also called Diabetes Mellitus, where the term mellitus is a Latin word for honey, since the urine of a diabetic patient has a sweet taste. From the written we can foresee that diabetes has something to deal with increased blood sugar, which is inappropriately supplied into body cells. Why is level of blood sugar increased and what causes it?
In diabetes, it’s all about a hormone, called insulin. It keeps blood sugar balanced in our body by regulating uptake of glucose from blood into most cells. But what if our body doesn’t produce enough insulin? It means that blood sugar stays in our blood circulation instead of being supplied to muscles and other appropriate cells. This kind of situation is called type 1 diabetes. Normally it occurs in a childhood and makes a person an insulin-dependent.
Type 2 diabetes:In this kind of diabetes patient’s body produces enough insulin but the cells do not respond to the insulin produced. As the cells do not take the insulin, the hormone remains in the blood without reaching the cells. Mainly adults get affected by Type 2 diabetes. This leads to new food habits and extra exercise in the old age.
The third category of diabetes is known as gestational diabetes. This disease attacks pregnant women. It is not necessary that women had diabetes before. Gestational diabetes can occur to pregnant women who never were diagnosed with diabetes before. However, after the woman gives birth to the child, it might disappear or change itself into type 2 of diabetes. Fetus and mother’s health, both can be effected. So one should pay proper attention to it.
As mentioned above, no kind of diabetes can be cured. However, symptoms can be eased: by type 1 with an insulin injection, by type 2 and gestational diabetes with healthy lifestyle, diet and exercising. Since sugar is brought to blood by food we ate and since diabetic patients have high blood sugar due to insulin failure, they should not increase their blood sugar imbalance with high carbohydrate diet. They should consume non-sugar products or products that contain artificial sweeteners, which do not increase the blood sugar.
Diabetes is an incurable disease. Prevention is better than cure. But once a person gets for example Type 1, the levels get set after regular intake of insulin injection. The only thing is that patients have to depend on insulin from outside.
As we talk of now, 2.8 % of our world’s population suffer from this form of disease. It should not be ignored. It is fatal. Live a lifestyle that is healthy and appropriate. As our technology advances we would have better medicines to help us fight this terrible disease.
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