Diabetes Type 1 is known as insulin-dependent mellitus (IDDM) is an autoimmune disease which means the body’s immune system destroyed certain pancreatic cells, and no longer able to produce insulin, thus the blood sugar cannot convert into energy. Insulin injections are therefore the course of treatment.Diabetes Type 1 is a serious chronic disorder which usually develops in childhood or adolescence, but can also occur in adulthood. Approximately 15% of all people with diabetes have Type 1.
In Type 1 Diabetes, insulin is unable produced by your body, glucose cannot be converted into energy and absorbed by the cells, and thus causing high blood sugar. High blood sugar level can cause serious long term health problems, such as kidney failure and cardiovascular. This type of Diabetes is fatal unless the patient regularly injects insulin which keeps the blood sugar level within the normal ranges. Some patients even have their beta cells replaced through a pancreas transplant and produce their own insulin again.
Type 1 Diabetes is also known as juvenile diabetes or childhood diabetes as people who become diabetes Type 1 are normally during childhood. But it can also develop after the age of 18. It is extremely rare to develop Type 1 after the age of 40.
Type 1 Diabetes is an inherited disease, thus people with a family history of it are at greatest risk. For example, if you have an identical twin with Type 1, then you will have a 50% chance of getting it. If you have a sibling with the disorder, then you will have 5%-10% chance of developing it. In addition, white people of north European heritage are more likely to develop Type 1 than the members of other racial and ethnic groups.
Type 1, unlike Type 2, is not preventable. Most of the diabetics of Type 1 are normal weight and are otherwise healthy during onset. According to several clinical trials, it have shown that exercise and diet cannot reverse Type 1, as the person has lost his/her insulin-producing beta cells.
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