Please answer this with your own words without plagiarism. Tell me what you know about diabetes.
2006-12-05 15:25:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
diabetes occurs when for some reason either not enough insulin is produced by the body or that it is unable to enter the cell to control the sugar in the blood.
80% of people diagnosed with Dm are overweight.
Weight loss can help the insulin get into th ecells many times.
Is called improving insulin receptiveness.
When the sugar in the blood is high it has deleterious effects in the body, it is believed that the arteries become "sticky", long standing out of control DM can cause kidney disease and failure, blindness, nerve damage and heart disease. It can be controlled with diet and medication and exercise and weight control.
2006-12-09 12:14:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-07 09:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-18 09:51:14 · answer #3 · answered by Francisca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Insulin is the hormone that converts the food we eat into energy for the cells. When a person is diagnosed as diabetic, he/she may still produce some insulin in the pancreas----but not enough to regulate the sugar in the blood stream. It is possible that they may be able to control or manage their diabetes with diet, exercise, and oral medication. But some diabetics do not produce any insulin in the pancreas. These are the type 1 insulin dependent diabetics. Insulin is the hormone that regulates our blood sugar levels and converts the food we eat into energy for the cells. Without insulin, the blood sugar level rises and eventually the diabetic will develop ketoacidosis and if not treated, go into a diabetic coma.
2006-12-05 16:42:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diabetes is a disease related to the body's abiility to regulate insulin.
Type I diabetics have a dead pancreas that no longer produces insulin. Without it, we die. These people have to inject insulin usually via hypodermic needle.
Type II diabetics develop a cellular resistance to insulin, which is essential to breaking down sugars in the body. If your blood sugar gets too high, it will act as a corrosive poison and begin destroying both vital organs and your circulatory system. This is why some diabetics lose fingers, toes, or worse, because the tiny capillaries feeding blood to the outer extremities are the first to die, cutting of the blood supply to those areas. Also, excess sugar in the blood can attack the kidneys, leading to kidney failure , as well as attacking the capillaries in the retina of the eye leading to blindness.
Lastly, diabetes weakens your immune system, making it harder to fight off infection or serious illness.
2006-12-05 15:40:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Type I diabetes--often known as Juvenile diabetes--is a disease that develops due to pancreatic failure. The pancreas is responsible for production of the hormone, insulin, which helps break down sugars in foods we eat. Without pancreatic function our bodies require insulin from an outside source to function properly.
I know...My son..now 15...was diagnosed as a diabetic at age 6.
2006-12-05 15:36:35 · answer #6 · answered by Emily in Tennessee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2015-09-18 02:39:14 · answer #7 · answered by Lino 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
diabetes is a disease of the blood. our pancreas cant make a hormone called insulin. and if we eat sweets and carbs.our body cant break down the insulin properly. it is controlled by diet and excercise for the lucky like me. but others they have to to take medicine becuase the diet dont work. and unfortunatley the ones that are born with it theyhave to go on the shots. it is the hormone that we lack called insulin there is a type 1 and type 2 type 2 develope it over the yrs. and we have to choose not to eat the way others do or take medicine and the ones born with it will have to take the shots
2006-12-05 15:33:35 · answer #8 · answered by mystical s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey!!!!!!! diabetes is a condition in the oancreas cannot produe a ormone in the bod called insuli. when the body does not prodce insulin it annot break down the sugars in the body causing the peson to be unwel. with diabetes, although wit diabetes you would rather not have it, its only a condition whih can b treated simply with insulin njections and also a gooood well balanced diet. good luck finding out more bout diabetes.
2006-12-05 21:10:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
diabetes is a glandular disease in which the pancreas does not make enough insulin in order to regulate the amount of blood sugar in the body...
it has been believed that diabetes is a hereditary disease...
some people take insulin injections so that the effect of diabetes can be lessened if not stopped..
2006-12-05 15:36:46 · answer #10 · answered by akoaypilipino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋