i have been type 1 diabetic for 9 yrs and ive heard the term sugar diabetes a few times. im like wtf is the that? like theres a difference? idk i just figured it was uneducated people who called it sugar diabetes... does it acctually exist?
2007-09-15 14:15:56 · 19 answers · asked by Jules 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
That's what they called diabetes (one or two) when my mom had it. It's not a big deal at all. It was gradually dropped sometime during the seventies, as I recall, but old habits die hard in some folks.
2007-09-15 15:52:30 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Peachy® 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-14 17:41:44 · answer #3 · answered by Jo-ann 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a misnomer and it is also an old term. Almost everything you eat turns into glucose. The difference between one food and another food in diabetes is that some foods require more processing and therefore actually cause more calories to burn before they are turned into glucose. Simple carbohydrates as in white bread, white flour, white rice, and sucrose (table sugar) require much less processing and are turned into glucose much more rapidly causing abrupt and sharp changes in sugar level. Spaghetti, pasta, and pizza are also bad. Meat, fish, chicken, pork take much longer. Vegetables take a long time because many have fiber. High fiber foods require more processing.
There are many forms of diabetes, but they all have to do with glucose. Type 1 diabetes usually involves problems with natural insulin production by the pancreasdue to reduction of cells producing insulin. Type 2 diabetes usually involves absorbtion of glucose by body cells or sluggish production of insulin production.
Diabetes is an insidious disease that causes many systemic problems. Most people die of other illnesses caused or a exacerbated by diabetes. Good luck. Type 1 diabetes is difficult. I find type 2 diabetes difficult and I have only had it since I was 40, 14 years ago.
2007-09-15 14:38:44 · answer #4 · answered by cavassi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no difference between type 1 diabetes(insulin dependand) and sugar diabetes. That is an old term used in the twenties before Banting discovered insulin. People of that time associated diabetes with eating too much sugar.
2007-09-15 14:24:39 · answer #5 · answered by London Catlover 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're right, it's just what some people call Diabetes Mellitis. Since Diabetes causes the inability to control your blood sugar, a lot of people call it "sugar diabetes" or "sugar". Sounds kinda backwards but that's what they mean.
2007-09-15 14:25:12 · answer #6 · answered by Jen 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sugar diabetes was what diabetes was called back in my mom's day. She became DM1 at the age of 12, in 1945. It helped people understand that there was something wrong with her "sugar".
It isn't necessarily "uneducated"...call them uninformed. Nobody told them they don't use the term any more. It is like calling someone "black" when they should be saying "african american". Give them a break. At least they are trying to understand.
2007-09-15 14:24:16 · answer #7 · answered by jjudijo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are two types of Diabetes, and neither one is called "sugar diabetes"
2007-09-15 14:23:58 · answer #8 · answered by Jeff C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You were correct in your initial assumption. Diabetes is Diabetes...they all result from the body's inabilty to process and balance the glucose (sugar) intake.
2007-09-15 14:21:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term "sugar diabetes" is just a literal translation of "diabetes mellitus", (which actually means "sweet much urine"). This is because, at one time, the term "diabetes" was used for two situations. "Diabetes mellitus" describes what is both Type I and Type II diabetes. It is characterized by sugar in the urine, hence the name. The no-longer-used term "diabetes insipidus" (weak much urine) refers to what happens when a normal person drinks a lot of water--lots of urine, but it's "weak". Diabetes insipidus is not a disease. So the term fell out of use.
By the by, NO form of diabetes mellitus is due to kidney failure, regardless of what some of the more ignorant answers here might claim.
2007-09-15 14:27:43 · answer #10 · answered by Hoosier Daddy 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋