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All About Diabetes?- Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
Diabetes – diabetes mellitus
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Diabetes is a metabolic disease that causes extremely high blood sugar. Diabetes blood sugar is complete waste and the body can’t use it in any way causing fats in the body and other health issues.
A diabetic patient is unable to make enough insulin in their body. Diabetes in extreme can lead to various organ damage like nerve damage, kidney damage, eye-related disorder and others.
Diabetes is a lifetime disease you can grow in yourself and it is non–curable. However, risk can be reduced to a great extent.
Type 1 diabetes –
here, the body’s pancreas does not produce any amount of insulin in the body.
Type 2 diabetes –
here, the body either does not produce enough amount of insulin or resists insulin production.
Gestational diabetes – gestational diabetes is diabetes found and affected in pregnant ladies.
Type 2 patients may not grow any symptoms in themselves or may experience very few of them. Therefore proper doctor’s diagnosis is required. Early warnings include –
• Often hungry
• Often drinking water
• Too much urination (especially ketone urination)
• Unwanted weight loss
• Fatigue
• Low feeling or restlessness
• Change in physique or skin colour
• Skin infection
• Vaginal infection (including urine infection)
• PCOD issue
• Slow-healing sores
When the pancreas is unable to insulin or not enough insulin, they lead to diabetes. Also, when the insulin is not used in the right way and in an effective manner in the body, leads to diabetes. Some of the causes can be that triggers type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes can be –
• Obesity
• Eating too much sugar or salt
• Unhealthy and very bad diet intake
• Overweight
• Family history
• Age
• Insulin resistance
• Steroids
• PCOD / PCOS
• Cushing’s syndrome
• Suffering from certain kind of viral or bacterial infection
• eating too many junk foods
• Exposure to environmental toxins
• Race ( Finland, America, Asian America and Sweden have more diabetic patients)
• Autoimmune cells in the body
• Increase in blood pressure
• Increased cholesterol or triglyceride level
If you are diabetic positive, then you need to go for further treatment. Or if you haven’t gone for a diagnosis and experiencing symptoms, especially skin infection or vaginal infection, you need to go for your doctor’s consult soon. Diabetes if cached earlier can reduce your risk.
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Depression and anxiety
• Diabetic retinopathy (eye damage) and hearing issues
• Nephropathy (kidney damage)
• Neuropathy (nerve damage )
• Generation of Cardiovascular diseases
• Skin infection and foot infection
• Death
• Preeclampsia
Prevention of any disease does not take a lot of effort from anyone. You just need to add a few simple things to your lifestyle and also cut down some of them.
• Have a fresh and balanced diet
• Stay active. Exercise regularly
• Avoid street and junk food as much as possible
• Don’t take the stress. Practice meditation
• Stay fit. Neither underweight nor overweight
Fact – this is a partial myth. Eating too much sugar can lead to fat gain in your body and fats in linked to diabetes birth. Therefore , it is not directly linked to sugar consumption but yes it can lead to issues that generate diabetes.
Fact – no , diabetes is a life – long disease. But if you take care of yourself very well , you will be able to reduce its risk 90% but not completely.
Fact – this myth needs to be verified. Diabetes if not treated van lead to death like cancer.
Fact – If diabetic patient do regular exercises , eat energetic foods and vegetables and take care of themselves in a proper way , they can be active equal to normal people only.
Following are a few of the tests taken by the doctors for the diagnosis of a patient’s diabetes –
• Screening
• Glycated haemoglobin test
• Blood sugar test
• Oral Glucose challenge test
Treatments include medications less than lifestyle changes.
• Islet transplant
• Bariatric surgery
• Oral medications may include glumetza, foramen and others.
• Blood sugar monitor
• Healthy and balanced eating
• Regular exercising
Answer – blood sugar range is suggested to be 85-135 before eating and less than 180 after eating.
Answer – a diabetic patient should drink fluids like seltzer water , herbal tea , low fat milk.
Answer – no , it wont help in any way.
Answer – yes , you can .Infect, honey will help you to increase insulin production in your body which simply controls your blood sugar level.
Answer – a diabetic patient can lice as long as 70 years but they may get very major issues in their body like eyesight problem , kidney failure , heart disease , ling disease and others.
Answer – yes , diabetes will stay with your body as ling as you live . But taking care of yourself will reduce its presence in your life.
