Diabetes is a disease that affects your body’s ability to produce or use insulin .insulin is released to help transport this energy to the cells. Blood glucose is your main source of energy and comes from the food you eat. Insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas, helps glucose from food get into your cells to be used for energy.
About 422 million people worldwide have diabetes, the majority living in low-and middle-income countries, and 1.6 million deaths are directly attributed to diabetes each year.
Types of Diabetes:-
The three main types of diabetes are:
type 1 diabetes(an autoimmune condition)
type 2 diabetes(insulin resistance)
gestational diabetes(insulin-blocking hormones produced during pregnancy)
The general symptoms of diabetes include:
- increased hunger
- increased thirst
- weight loss
- frequent urination
- extreme fatigue
- blurry vision
- slow-healing wounds
Diabetes causes:- it’s depending on your genetic makeup, family history, ethnicity, health and environmental factors.
There is no specific diabetes causes, but the following triggers may be involved:
Viral or bacterial infection
Chemical toxins within food.
diabetes is caused by genes and environmental factors, such as viruses, that might trigger the disease.
What are the complications of diabetes?
- Diabetes increases your risk for many serious health problems.
- Skin complications
- Eye complications
- Neuropathy
- Foot complications
- Kidney disease (nephropathy)
- High blood pressure
- Stroke
Best treatment for Diabetes
Diabetes is a serious disease that you cannot treat on your own.Treatment for diabetes requires keeping close watch over your blood sugar levels (and keeping them at a goal set by your doctor) with a combination of medications, exercise, and diet.
The type 1 diabetes treatment involves insulin injections which are taken through the skin layer into the fatty tissue found under the skin.
We are also using some Diabetes Drugs:-
If you have type 1 diabetes, your pancreas no longer makes the insulin your body needs to use blood sugar for energy. You will need insulin in the form of injections or through use of a continuous pump.
Diagnosis:-
Your examiner will use any one of these tests to examine sugar levels
Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) test
Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)
A1C test
Random plasma glucose (RPG) test:- Sometimes health care professionals use the RPG test to diagnose diabetes when diabetes symptoms are present and they do not want to wait until you have fasted.
Prevention:-
Medication to help prevent diabetes
Whilst medication, such as metformin, has been shown to lower the risk of type 2 diabetes amongst particularly high-risk cases where lifestyles interventions alone may not be enough.
- Get more physical activity
- Get plenty of fiber
- Go for whole grains
- Lose extra weight
- Skip fad diets and just make healthier choices
Pre-diabetes, as the name suggests, is a precursor to type 2 diabetes and therefore the same prevention strategies for preventing type 2 diabetes are applicable for prediabetes.