Diabetes has been a recognized condition for more than 3,500 years. The percentage of people suffering from diabetes is increasing rapidly these day, many medical authorities are referring to it as an epidemic. Nowadays, Diabetes has affected over 150 million people in the world.
Diabetes (diabetes mellitus) is classed as a chronic metabolism disorder. Metabolism is the way that our bodies transform the digested food into energy supplying for our daily functions. Most of what we eat is broken into glucose which is a type of blood sugar for our bodies. When the food digested, the glucose transfers into our bloodstream and our cells use the glucose for energy and growth. Without insulin, glucose cannot enter into our cells. Insulin is a hormone that is produced by pancreas. An adequate quantity of insulin is released automatically by the pancreas to move the glucose present in our blood into the cells and thus lowers the blood sugar level.
A person with diabetes, his/her body is unable to break down glucose into energy. If your body does not produce enough insulin, produces no insulin or when your cells do not respond appropriately to the insulin that the pancreas produces, and you are diagnosed as diabetic. The excess blood glucose is eventually passes out of the body in urine. Therefore, though the blood has plenty of glucose, it cannot be used to provide essential energy and growth requirements by the body cells.
There are three main types of diabetes, Diabetes Type I, Diabetes Type II and Gestational Diabetes. The difference between Type 1 and Type 2 is:
=>Diabetes Type I: the body is unable to produce any insulin, and it is usually started in childhood or young adulthood. Diet control and insulin injections are needed to treat with;
=>Diabetes Type II: there is not enough insulin produced or insulin produced by the body does not function properly. This type diabetes tends to affect older people and usually occur for age over 40.
=>Gestational diabetes only occurs during pregnancy. Some women have high blood glucose level and their bodies cannot produce enough insulin to absorb it. In most case, this diabetes develops in the second half stage of pregnancy and disappears after the baby is born. However, some women are likely to develop the Diabetes Type 2 later in life.
Diabetes usually defined as can’t be cured or poorly managed. It also leads to serious long-term complications, including kidney failure, amputation and blindness. Addition, having diabetes increases your risk of cardiovascular. However, treatments are the effective and important way to treat with the Diabetes. If diabetics have proper treatment and blood sugar control, they can have a normal and happy life.
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