What is Diabetes-Everything You Must Know About Diabetes

What is Diabetes?

What is Diabetes

Does the fact that Diabetes? 

Diabetes is a disease in which the body cannot produce insulin (blood sugar balance hormones) or the insulin produced is insufficient insulin or don't work well. Therefore will cause increased blood sugars while review.

There are two main types of Diabetes in IE:

Type 1 diabetes

A situation where the body already completely unable to produce the hormone insulin. So the sufferer must use insulin injections to regulate their blood sugar. Most of its victims are children & teenagers.

Type 2 diabetes

Happen because the body does not produce sufficient insulin hormone or insulin because it can not be used properly (insulin resistance). This type is the most sustained current (90% more), often occurs in those who are over 40 years old, obese and had a history of diabetes in their family.

How to know whether we suffer from Diabetes or not?

Those who suffer from Diabetes often shows the symptoms as follows: 

• Thirst and drinking lots of
• Hungry and eat a lot
• Frequent urination
• Weight decreased
• Blurry eyes
• Old wounds healed
• Easy infection on the skin (hives), urinary tract and gums
• Pain or numbness in the hands or feet
• Body feels weak
• Easy sleepy

The above symptoms are often found, but in some people the symptoms are often not encountered at all. In particular, it is necessary for examining the blood in the laboratory.

Anyone can suffer from Diabetes?

Diabetes can happen to everyone. But for those who have a family history of Diabetes, more likely to suffer from Diabetes. In addition to family history, other risk factors are those who have excess body weight (FAT), high cholesterol (a diet is not good), hypertension and less physical activity. Those who are over 40 years old accompanied by obesity will progressively increase the risk to suffer from diabetes.

How to ensure suffering from Diabetes or not?

Diagnosis of Diabetes obtained when found the results of the examination are as follows:

• Fasting blood sugar is greater than or equal to 126 mg/dl
• When blood sugar is greater than or equal to 200 mg/dl
• Blood glucose 2 hours after glucose solution granting 75 grams (on oral glucose tolerance test) results greater than or equal to 200 mg/dl

When someone has the typical symptoms of Diabetes (a lot of pain, drinking a lot, a lot of eating, weight decreases quickly and limp), then the results of the examination only once above the person have determined suffer from diabetes.
But when symptoms typical of none, required twice the above checks to make sure the diagnosis of Diabetes.

What is Pre Diabetes is that?

Pre Diabetes is a situation where your blood sugar is higher than normal but not yet high enough to be included in the category of Diabetes.

They are included in the category of Pre Diabetes, at high risk for suffering from type 2 Diabetes later in life, unless they do the pattern of healthy living with the excess weight loss and exercise.

Someone put in the category of Pre Diabetes blood sugar when fasting in the range 100-125 mg/dl. Blood glucose 2 hours after glucose solution granting 75 grams (on oral glucose tolerance test) in the range 140-199 mg/dl

How to cope with Diabetes?

Good people with type 1 Diabetes or type 2, is crucial for planning meals and exercise. For type 1 Diabetes and some type 2 Diabetes, insulin injections are also required. For most people with type 2 Diabetes, needed oral drugs (medicinal drinking) in order to help the body to make more insulin and or help make insulin work better.

Sometimes people with type 2 Diabetes can control their blood sugar without medication, simply by setting diet and work out regularly.

People with Diabetes are encouraged to control regularly to the doctor. The doctor will give you an explanation about his Diabetes and dietary arrangements, sports, complications can occur and drugs or insulin that needs to be used.

Patients also need to check blood sugar levels regularly and affect the examination of blood and urine periodically, which includes HbA1c (blood sugar picture in the last 3 months), mikroalbumin urine (leakage of protein in the urine), the cholesterol profile, the function of the kidneys, liver, etc.

Patients also need her eyes checked regularly, at least 1 time a year to ensure the absence of complications of Diabetes on the eye (retinopathy).

What are the complications of Diabetes that can happen?

This is one important reason why patients need to control their blood sugar. Because with a bad blood sugar control, the patient will experience long-term complications, such as stroke, heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, diseases of the blood vessels and nerve damage that can lead to amputation on a limb and in men erectile disorders can occur.

Of research for 10 years, which have been completed, indicate that patients keep their blood sugar still controllable, will lower the risk of complications-complications that up to 50% more.

What are blood sugar targets that must be achieved by people with Diabetes?

The target of the blood sugar is individual, so it could be just one patient with another patient is different for the target to be achieved. But in general the targets to be achieved are:

• Blood sugar before eating: 90-130 mg/dl
• Blood glucose 2 hours after a meal: below 160 mg/dl
• Blood sugar before bed: 110-150 mg/dl
• The target for HbA1c (blood sugar picture in the last 3 months) that is less than 7%

What is Diabetes cure?

Up to this point have not yet found a drug that can cure Diabetes. But with the excess weight loss, diet, and exercise regularly, it can make the blood sugar back to normal. But this does not mean it has been cured of Diabetes. Because when patients come back fat, bad diet and not exercising, so your blood sugar will rise again. So Diabetes cannot be cured, but can be controlled blood sugar in the normal range.

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