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Do You Have Type One Diabetes

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

What Is Type One Diabetes?
It is also known as juvenile or insulin dependent diabetes and often developed in kids but adults may also develops these disease. It is occurs when the pancreas is not able to produces sufficient insulin in your body and when this happen, it will not able to control the blood sugar levels correctly. You will experiences some complications like fatigue, often hungry, etc. It’s happens because of the insulin deficient in your body and as for your information, insulin is significantly needed to convert the blood glucose into cells that are gathered and later it will be use as energy.

Signs And Symptoms Of Type One Diabetes?
With the early detection of this disease, you will be able to handle this disease much prepared and may be able to reverse it before it’s become worst. Some of the diabetes warning signs stated below can be similar with the other types of diabetes. If you experiences these signs and symptoms, you are strongly advise to seek for doctor’s attentions.

- Stress
- Weight loss
- Blurred vision
- Excessive thirst
- Frequent urination
- Fatigue or tiredness
- Often hungry even when after a meal
- Numbness or tingling sensation on your feet, hands and toes

By noticing these signs and symptoms you will be able to avoid complications like kidney failure, nerve damages, blindness, amputations, and heart diseases. And there are ways to greatly avoid or maintain your health with type one diabetes by having workouts or exercises. However, exercises doesn’t have to be heavy one because it can be done by doing house chores or any other easy ways. Do not overdo it because it will makes things worst for yourself as type one diabetes can’t produces insulin naturally. Change your eating habits to healthy one; get diabetic recipes that is widely available online. Find out more about how to lower blood sugar on our previous article.

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What Is Type 1 Diabetes

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Diabetes is a disease which occurs due to the metabolic disorder of the body. For a diabetic, the blood glucose level remains high and the body is unable to produce enough energy. There are three types of diabetes namely

You might have heard of the type 1 diabetes. So what kind of diabetes is type 1?

The food which we eat is broken down into glucose and is carried by the blood. Our cells use this glucose to produce energy and it is the fuel for our bodily functions. However the cells cannot utilize the glucose with the help of insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas. Insulin acts like a key for the cells to utilize the glucose.

For a type 1 diabetic the body produces little or no insulin which means the cells are unable to produce energy. It is because the immune system of a person destroys the beta cells in hi/her pancreas, which is responsible for the production of insulin. Sometimes the attack may be so severe that the cells cannot produce insulin in the future.

Of all the diabetics in the world, nearly 10-15% of them are having type 1. Type1 is also known as juvenile-onset diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes. As the name suggests type1/juvenile/childhood diabetes is the one which is mainly diagnosed during the childhood. However don’t remain as a laggard that type1 affects only youth. The disease is also diagnosed in adults however the ratio of infection is low when compared to the young people.

The cause of the disease still remains as a mystery for the scientists. It is believed that the heredity is the major risk factor of this disease. Also environmental factors such as virus infection, improper life style etc can trigger the onset of type 1 diabetes.

Since no one knows why this happens, it can’t be prevented and also there is no possible way to find out who are all will be affected by this disease. Once a person gets affected by this diabetes, he/she requires lifelong treatment. The type 1 diabetic patients have to use insulin injections several times a day in order to keep the blood glucose level under control. Insulin pumps also give better results against type 1 diabetes.

Symptoms of type 1 diabetes

The symptoms of type 1 diabetes may not be clear always and therefore a person can have diabetes without even knowing to him. This type of diabetes may develop suddenly or gradually.

Some of the common symptoms of type 1 diabetes are

  • Frequent urination

Type1 diabetics urinate frequently as the kidney respond to high levels of blood glucose by eliminating the excess glucose through urine

  • Abnormal thirst

Since large amount of fluid is flushed out in the form of urine, the person feels excess thirst.

  • Weight loss

Despite of a good appetite, a type 1 diabetic loses his/her weight either suddenly or gradually.

  • Fatigue

Since the body cells could not use the glucose, it starves for energy and the patient always remain fatigue.

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