Diabetes

Is a problem with insulin production in the Pancreas in which your body cannot properly store and use fuel for energy. The fuel that your body needs is called glucose, a form of sugar. Glucose
comes from foods such as breads, cereals, pasta, rice, potatoes, fruits and some vegetables. To use glucose, your body needs insulin. Insulin is made by a gland in your body called the pancreas. Insulin isproduced to help your body use the sugars that you take in through foods you eat . Diabetes occurs when the body cannot use sugar properly. The disease is marked by high levels of blood sugar, glucose. Glucose enters the bloodstream from food you eat and drink and provides energy the body needs to carry out daily activities. Diabetes interferes with the way the body makes or uses insulin, achemical produced by the pancreas, a small organ that lies behind the lower part of the stomach. There are two major types of diabetes: type 1, and
Type 2.

Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the pancreas no longer produces enough insulin or cells stop responding to the insulin that is produced, so that glucose in the blood cannot be absorbed into the cells of the body. Symptoms includefrequent urination, lethargy, excessive thirst, and hunger. Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that causes serious health complications including renal (kidney) failure, heart disease, stroke, and blindness.
Other indicators that you may find annoying are having dry mouth, itchy or dry skin, fatigue, random body aches, blurry vision and recurrent infections that take too long to heal.These may all be related to diabetes.Without insulin your sugar sits around in your blood stream causing you to have high blood sugar also called Hyperglycemia.


Signs and Symptoms of Hyperglycemia
• Frequent urination
• Frequent and unquenchable thirst
• Frequent hunger
• Fruity breath
• Eventually a decline in mental status

A common problem associated with Diabetes is poor maintenance ofdiet and Insulin doses. Many people take their Insulin as prescribed and then don’t eat in time or the proper foods to balance the rise of Insulin in the blood. This results in low blood sugar, also called Hypoglycemia. The effects of Hypoglycemia are noticed much more quickly. The reason is because next to Oxygen, sugar is the next more important thing to your body!





Signs andSymptoms of Hypoglycemia
• Weakness
• Nausea
• Dizziness
• Sweating
• Hunger
• Lethargy
• Declining Mental Status
• Coma

Important

Do not attempt to put food or drink of any kind into the mouth of a person if they are not able to hold the food themselves. If they can’t control their own hands they cannot control their tongue and you run the risk of causing them to choke!!THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF DIABETES TYPE 1 AND TYPE 2
DIABETES TYPE 1
Is when the body makes little or no insulin. It used to be called insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes. This requires daily injections of insulin. If you have this form of diabetes, your body can still break down sugar from food, but without insulin, the blood sugar can’t enter your cells.
The people withtype 1 diabetes must get insulin from daily injections or an insulin pump. Because type 1 diabetes is probably caused by a malfunction in the immune system, no matter how much sugar you avoid or how much you change your lifestyle, you can’t prevent it. Type 1 diabetes is divided into two forms: immune-mediated diabetes (type 1A) and idiopathic diabetes (type 1B).








Type 1A: iscaused by the destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. Markers for the immune destruction of the beta cells include the presence of antibodies, which are found in between 85 and 90 percent of individuals when fasting high blood sugar levels are diagnosed.

Diabetes type 1B has no known cause, although it appears to be inherited. Some patients with this form have...