Diabetes

Diabetes, a common disease in human being, is a lifelong or chronic disease which is marked through sugar’s highest level in blood.

Sugar in blood is controlled by hormone named insulin. Pancreas produces insulin. Cause of diabetes can either be due to opposition to the insulin or insulin being very little or due to both. Before understanding diabetes, we should know about process used to break down food and its usage for the energy by body. Following things takes place during digestion of food:

• In bloodstreams enters sugar known as glucose, which is fuel’s source for body.
• Insulin is made by organ named as pancreas. Insulin’s role is glucose’s transmission from bloodstream to fat, cells of liver and muscle, where, as a fuel, it is used.

There is high sugar in blood of those who has diabetes, because:

• Insulin is not made in enough amounts by pancreas.
• Their fat, cells of liver and muscle doesn’t react to insulin in normal way.
• Both.

Diabetes is of three main types:

• Type-1 – Usually determined in puerility. In most of patients it is diagnosed at an age of 20. Body, in type1 disease makes no or little insulin. Insulin’s injections are required daily. Exact reasons of its cause are still unknown. Problems of autoimmune, viruses and genetics play vital role.
• Type-2 – It is very common as compared to type-1. It occurs usually during older age, but people of young age are having this disease at a greater speed. It is found in great percentage because of decreasing exercises and increasing fleshiness.

Symptoms

Type-1:

• Fatigue.
• Feeling thirsty often.
• Urination is increased.
• Vomiting.
• Nausea.
• Loss of weight.

Type-2:

• Vision is blurred.
• Fatigue.
• Appetite is increased.
• Thirst is increased.
• Urination is increased.

Questions:

• What is diabetes?
• What are the types and symptoms of diabetes?