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Diabetes and Digestion

A meal takes 24 hours or so in our digestive system of fully traveling in the gastrointestinal tracts and the food digestive system also other systems in our body are controlled by autonomic nervous system which is a complex of brain cells and nerves.
However, digestive problems like heartburn, constipation, diarrhea, and more can also be caused or worsened by aging, poor diet, obesity, and lack of exercise.

Diabetes and Digestive Problems

Approximately 75% of people with diabetes are experienced at least one or more symptoms of digestive problems; heartburn, difficulty swallowing, constipation, diarrhea, bowel incontinence, and abnormal stomach function, called gastroparesis.

The digestive system is made up a complexity of nerves and diabetes destroys nerves so the signal to move or break down food can not be sent through the related cells along the digestive tracts. Nerve damage associated with the digestive system is called gastrointestinal autonomic neuropathy.How Diabetes Affects the Digestive System

Food is eaten by mount, jaws also teeth bite and chop food into small pieces then tongue shapes bits of food into small balls while enzyme in saliva starts to break down carbohydrate into smaller molecules. Then food is swallowed through the (tube-like) esophagus in rhythmic movement called “peristalsis” down into stomach.
Stomach is a sack-like muscle which contains food downward from esophagus and here protein is digested by enzymes also all food is converting into semi-liquid substance called chyme and after four hours, the stomach will be empty.
Chyme continue to move further through the intestines where the serious digestion begins, fats are dissolved in the upper most section duodenum by bile produced from liver while pancreas also produces digestive juices to digest carbohydrates, fats and protein. After they become the smaller molecules of nutrients so they are able to absorb through the cell membranes of intestines into the blood stream altogether with other vitamins, minerals and water.
Food digested into the useful nutrients, vitamins, minerals and water are extracted and absorbed into the blood stream for body cells uses but still the leftover food travels along the tracts then is pushed into colon where water continue to be absorbed out then the waste is formed here. This is called stool made up from water, used-up bile and digestive juices, old cells sloughed from intestines’ walls, fibers and non-body digested things even toxins. The feces move through the large intestine into the rectum after a day or so and finally be removed out of the body via anus.

Diabetes and Difficulty Swallowing
Swallow is done by a number of complex muscles and nerves but the damage of a particular nerve; vagus nerve can result in dysphagia. The other cause of difficulty swallow is untreated GERD which can burn the lining of the esophagus, producing scar tissue that can clog the windpipe.
The symptoms of dysphagia may include

· chest pain
· food getting stuck in the throat, especially solid food
· a sensation of heaviness or pressure in the neck or upper chest
· coughing while eating or drinking

Several categories of drugs can relax muscles in the esophagus, including the lower esophageal sphincter (LES), though doctors say this treatment doesn't always make it easier or less painful to swallow. Acid-blocking drugs will be prescribed if GERD has produced scar tissue. In some cases, doctors manually widen a narrowed esophagus with a dilator. Using an endoscope, the doctor inserts a balloonlike device into the esophagus. As the balloon is inflated, the windpipe widens. In severe cases, a type of surgery called myotomy may be necessary, in which certain muscles are cut, allowing food to pass through the esophagus. As with other nerve disorders, doctors are also reporting success in treating dysphagia with Botox