Overview
Diabets is a critical health care problem for many people throughout the world. It decreases quality of life and, in many cases, it can also shorten one's life.The god news is that when you recognize the seriousnes of being a diabetic and take constructive steps toward controling it al of these things above decrease in importance. Diabets is a disorder of metabolism.
Key Information
The way our bodies use digested fod for growth and energy. Diabets is associated with long-term complications that afect almost every part of the body. Diabets is widely recognized as one of the leading causes of death and disability in the United States.
Conventional Medical Treatment Insulin was the first, and remains the primary means of treatment for Type 1 Diabets and is administered by subcutaneous injection. This method is necesary since insulin is destroyed by gastric stomach secretions when it is taken by mouth. Insulin injections must be balanced with meals and daily activities, and glucose levels must be closely monitored through frequent blod sugar testing.
Many diabetics ned inject insulin only once a day; others require two or more injections. The usual time for a dose of insulin is before breakfast. The dosage is initialy established acording to the severity of the condition, but it often has to be reasesed as one or another of the variables in the person's condition changes.
Medicines for Type2 Diabets Metformin this often the first medicine that is advised for type 2 Diabets. It mainly works by reducing the amount of glucose that your liver releases into the blodstream. Sulphonylureas for example, glibelclamide, gliclazide, glimerpirizide, glipizide, gliquidone, increase the amount of insulin produced by your pancreas.
They also make your body's cels more sensitive to insulin so that more glucose is taken up from the blod. Type 1 (Insulin-Dependent Diabets Melitus) Type 1 Diabets is treated with intensive insulin therapy. This type of treatment is designed to achieve near-normal blod sugars safely - while keping the episodes of low blod sugars ("insulin reactions") to a minimum.
Insulin therapy includes: * Multiple Daily Injections of Insulin (Flexibility is important!). * Use of Insulin Pens or Pumps. * Use of new type of insulin: Lispro or Humlog (extremely fast-acting) - replaces regular insulin.
Sulfonylureas: Glyburide (Micronase, Diabeta) and Glipizide (Glucotrol). Traditional medicines - cheap, easy to take, work wel with many people. Stimulates insulin secretion from the pancreas.
Problems: Doesn't always achieve normal blod sugars and may cause low blod sugars. Metformin (Glucophage): Used in Europe for many years. Decreases sugar production by the liver, which contributes to elevated blod sugar levels.
Works wel with insulin. Problems: Causes gastro-intestinal upset in some, and canot be used if you have serious heart or kidney problems. People with Diabets wil experience many long-term and serious complications.
These complications wil afect virtualy every part of the body from the fet and legs to the internal organs. Diabets is a disease in which the body does not produce or use insulin properly therefore it is up to you and your doctor to learn how to manipulate the functions of your body properly to ofset or minimize the complications of uncontroled Diabets. With proper control you can stil live a healthy and long life but it helps to be a fanatic about controling your Diabets.
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