Monday, June 11, 2007

Diabetes Causes

The most happiness of human life is not to associate with any diseases and it is vital for us to know the way of proper lifestyle that can bring us a well healthy living. Most of the teenagers who still strong and happy with their good health are not pay attention much to the selection food consumption. But the efficiency of our body processing systems is greatly related to the food we eat and the ways of our daily lifestyles. Sometimes, the knowledge of causes, symptoms, and treatment of many interesting diseases can be useful for us and we can avoid ourselves from those threaten awful illness.
Now, we come to know about some important information of diabetes which is an easily associated disease. Many people in the world are suffering of diabetes bodies. In the past, people with diabetes diagnosis meant dead but in nowadays, the studies and medications have been developed quite far so diabetes patients can still enjoy normal lives by specific treatments together with diabetes diets courses.

We have already known that our body needs essentially water and five major portions of food to sustain a healthy life; protein, carbohydrate, fat, minerals and vitamins. Carbohydrates are preferred to be burned into fuel for contribution of human body's energy to protein and fat which are found in rice, sugar, flour, vegetables and fruits. We can easily eat carbs inform of our many favorite food and especially junk food.
Carbohydrates are digested into a form of sugar known as glucose then send into blood stream or blood sugar which is the fuel of body energy and converting immediately for the needed uses of body cells by the assistance of insulin hormone. This hormone or insulin is created by the pancreas to provide a function of unlocking the cells to accept the glucose. But not all the blood sugar are used, there still some are converted into fat then stored in our body parts such as belly, butt, and thighs.
Our pancreas normally produces insulin when our body starts a rise level of glucose sending through the blood stream, may be after the digestion of a sweet drink or a meal that helps the cells to get the glucose. Sometimes, insulin is called "Hunger Hormone". In another way, the pancreas produces glucagons whenever the lower level of blood sugar (glucose) and sends to liver for changing the glucose stored in there for the immediate uses of body cells while insulin is turned off.

Pacreas' working system is auto regulation and homeostasis around the clock whenever its either of inability to secrete any or insufficient insulin, long-period overload working, over compensatory mechanism or combinations this is a dyfunction that resulted to the lack of insulin and the rising of blood sugar. This is diabetes melllitus.
It is good to understand the causes of diabetes then the patient is easily to diagnose and cure, now come to the point of how diabetes is developed and able to damage the body.


Type 1: The pancreas produces inadequate amount or none of insulin.(This is resulted from the predisease-people's abnormal genes inherited from either of their parents.)
Type 2: The pancreas produces enough insulin but the cells do not recognize that insulin produced.(The either of parents' genes had been destroyed by disease become those abnormal genes which entirely unable to response and people inherit them.)
Type 3: The inadequate glucose gets in cells but extra amount of glucose in blood.

Overall the other factors influence people to associate with diabetes are the overweight and obesity or even slim people are still unavoidable if they lack of long-term proper food consumption habits.

Another case in women is Gestational diabetes resulted from pregnancy.

Diabetes Diagnosis

The fasting plasma glucose test is the standrad and preferred way to diagnose diabetes, the normal levels are lower than 110 mg/dl. If overnight, the fasting plasma glucose is greater than 126 mg/dl on two different tests and on two different days, diabetes mellitus diagnosis has been made.

The solely random of blood glucose is sometimes not reliable. Fasting blood sugar (glucose) can be simply performed by home blood sugar testing kits and doctors use hemoglobin A1C level tests to measure the overall effectiveness of blood sugar level control over two months time. If the A1C levels are elevated, the poor overall control of blood sugar level is indicated.

Diabetes Treatment

The most important in treating the people with diabetes is to follow-up and provide particularly plan of diets and treatment according to the types of diabetes they are diagnosed, the plan of treatment for the patients of type 1 and type 2 maintains non fluctuated normal levels of blood sugar with the injections of insulin, medications or diabetes-diets.As soon as the patients with diabetes are particularly treated by proper treatment plans, they will be able to do activities and live in their normal lives as other people, moreover, they can also be allowed to have the flexible diets or shared the same food with the other people beyond their diet courses as the doctor has approved by the time period of treatment and body recovery.

Type 1 Diabetes Treatment

Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus or Insulin Dependent Diabetes Melltus (IDDM):
Approximately 10% of patients with diabetes type 1 and also usually occurs in young to before 30 years of age.
The patients require the injections of insulin treatment for survival which the practices of treatment are so varies to the different cases of diagnosis, symptoms, patients’ health and conditions; undergoes surgery or pregnant also different ages. The insulin treatment can help and control them from the fluctuations of blood sugar levels that maintain them
into normal levels include the suitable suggested exercises so the patients are able to spend their livings as other people. Ther is no cure for the people with type1 diabetes, the diet plan and the control of blood sugar levels still be an intentional critical to them although they have got their insulin injections and also the regular of urine ketone testing is essential required.

As we known, the levels of body’s blood sugar can go up high depend on the amount and time period after carbohydrates consumed and go lower after the energy used of body cells by converting of the glucose.
But in the patients with type1diabetes, if their levels of blood sugar are shooting up too high, this means the body needs more of insulin and will affect the symptoms of these; weakness, fatigue and thirst so they require insulin injection. If their blood sugar levels go too low, they will feel headache, dizzy, hunger, sweat, fatigue, and trembling so we immediately give them simple sugar ; juice and candy for a quick remedy. But for the case of loosing conscious patients are not allowed to give anything through their mouths in case of preventing risk of choking.

Type 2 Diabetes Treatment
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus or Non Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus(NIDDM):
Approximately 90% of all Diabetes mellitus and mostly occurs in people over 40 years of age who 80% has a strong genetic tendency. The treatments are varies according to the doctor prescribes; some require oral antidiabetic drugs to stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin or to simulate the insulin receptors, some require the insulin injections and some require diet courses.


The diet plan is a special attention for people of this type of diabetes.
It is a vital for the overweight people of type 2 that need to lose weight by the emphasis balance diets to the recommended weight. In the course of diet should have plenty of fibers from; fruits, vegetables and whole grains in order to reduce the sugar absorbing in the digestive tract.
But the diet should contain limited fat in order to reduce susceptibility and low simply sugar. In some case, they are occasionally allowed by the doctor’s medication approval to share regular family food during their flexible dietary needs.


The importance for the patient with either type 1 or 2 diabetes;
- plan diabetes diet
- monitor the levels of blood sugar
- determine changes of drug dosage or insulin
- test urine for sugar
- suitable exercise
The vital practice for the patient with either type of diabetes is to have a strict adherence to the regimen prescribed by the physician together with having proper and enough exercises. From the studies shown in recent years, the complication of diabetes mellitus such as blindness or kidney failure can be prevented by the meticulous control of blood sugar levels.

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