Wednesday, June 4, 2014

DIABETES MELLITUS

Get well understanding of diabetes

Diabetes Mellitus, or commonly referred to as diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by blood sugar levels are high enough alias abnormally or known by the medical term as hyperglycemia. As we know, the blood sugar level is controlled by the hormone insulin that produced by the pancreas and when insulin production is insufficient then this will affect blood glucose levels. Unavailability or insufficient production of insulin in the body will make someone have a disease that we call diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that affects many parts of the population from different parts of the country including the United States. Diabetes rates continue to increase thus making the disease entered into the list of top 10 causes of death in America. In addition to making the sufferer to experience death, we can also get other health effects such as heart failure, kidney problems, stroke, blindness, and other. This certainly makes the lesson for us and done everything possible to avoid this disease.

Diabetes Mellitus has three main types of diabetes namely diabetes type 1, diabetes type 2, and diabetes type 3. Diabetes type 1 is a condition in which the pancreas fails to produce insulin in sufficient quantities and make sufferers must inject insulin several manually into the body. Diabetes type 2 is a condition where the body's cells do not respond to insulin in the body so that the sufferer should consume certain drugs rather than inject some insulin into the body. Diabetes type 3 is also known as gestational diabetes, which usually occur to a mother during pregnancy which can then be transformed into type 2 diabetes. There is also a condition known as pre-diabetes. It is a condition where a person has blood sugar levels higher than normal but not as high as that owned by people with diabetes. If a person is suffering from pre-diabetes, so to be able to cure the condition, lifestyle change is the key. If we do not change an unhealthy lifestyle, then within the next 10 years, we will be one of the people with diabetes. Obviously this is not something that we want, is not it?!.

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