2006-10-24 08:47:29 · 23 answers · asked by \ 5 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults, and was previously known as juvenile diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, the body does not produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar (glucose), starches and other food into energy needed for daily life.
Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. In type 2 diabetes, either the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin. Insulin is necessary for the body to be able to use sugar. Sugar is the basic fuel for the cells in the body, and insulin takes the sugar from the blood into the cells. When glucose builds up in the blood instead of going into cells, it can cause two problems:
1)Right away, your cells may be starved for energy.
2)Over time, high blood glucose levels may hurt your eyes, kidneys, nerves or heart.
2006-10-24 08:50:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Type 1 is where the beta cells in the pancreas fail to produce any insulin whatsoever. Type 2 is where the beta cells still produce insulin, but in insufficient amounts. If the decrease is gradual, diet alone can control it, otherwise oral medication will be required. The decrease can suddenly accelerate, resulting in the patient needing insulin therapy. If a person with Type 2 diabetes lived to be very very old i.e. 100+ they would eventually become insulin dependent.
2006-10-24 09:02:57 · answer #2 · answered by Nurse Soozy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Type 1 diabetes means a person produces no insulin at all.
Type II means they make some insulin but not enough to controm their blood sugar.
Most type 1 diabetics are diagnosed in childhood, adolesence or early adulthood. It is always sudden and serious.
Some doctors say that type 2 diabetics can become type 1 if they stop making insulin at all; others call these people type 2, insulin requiring diabetics.
(Incidentally there is also type 3 and type 4 diabetes; pregnancy and pancreatic disease)
2006-10-24 10:56:58 · answer #3 · answered by cate 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Type 1 diabetes is that which occurs in children and young people. These people will be 'artificial' insulin users as soon as they are diagnosed. The disease often strikes quickly and the first episode can make the patient extremely unwell.
Type 2 diabetes usually occurs in middle age, though in some cases it can occur in people's early teens. It is strongly associated with being overweight, and with a family history. At first people with type 2 can control their diabetes with changes to their diet. Subsequently they may have to use medicines to keep it under control, and eventually some end up having to use 'artificial' insulin.
2006-10-24 08:53:01 · answer #4 · answered by Silver Fox 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Type one is generally insulin dependent and is also called Juvenile diabetes. Type one results from the body's failure to produce insulin, the hormone that "unlocks" the cells of the body, allowing glucose to enter and fuel them. It is estimated that 5-10% of Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 1 diabetes.
Type two can be diet or insulin controlled and is the most common. Results from insulin resistance (a condition in which the body fails to properly use insulin), combined with relative insulin deficiency. Most Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.
2006-10-24 08:49:33 · answer #5 · answered by Ms. H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In type 1 the immune system attacks Beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. So that person literally can't make it, and is insulin dependant.
Type 2 diabetics have Beta cells, but the insulin they produce is damaged, or the somatic cells of the body have develped resistance to insulin.
Both can be genetic, but type 2 can exist in people who are not genetically pre-disposed due solely to diet.
2006-10-24 09:02:24 · answer #6 · answered by Earth Queen 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe that type 1 is an insulin dependent, and sometimes a child onset, type of diabetes.
Type 2 is one that adults normally get and can be controlled by use if a diabetic pill.
2006-10-24 08:50:49 · answer #7 · answered by Kimberley 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
type 1 diabetis is controlled mainly bt insulin because the body makes none or not enough insulin itselve
type 2 is where the body make a little insulin
a lot of elderly people suffer from this type
2006-10-24 09:08:27 · answer #8 · answered by jan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Type one - the person produced no insulin of their own, must take insulin injections. Type two - person makes some insulin, but their body cannot use it sufficiently. Some type two diabetics also take insulin. Type two's can also be insulin resistant, their bodies don't want to use insulin at all. They take oral meds to correct this problem.
2006-10-24 08:57:37 · answer #9 · answered by AzOasis8 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Type 2 is brought about my diet or circumstances not connected to genetics. It is the most common and comes form either age, a high sugar diet or a poor diet
Type 1 is genetic and is passed on, it cannot develop like Type 2 but must be present at the start in some form.
2006-10-24 08:56:17 · answer #10 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋