Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus is defined as a disease in which the patient’s body can not automatically control the level of sugar (glucose) in their blood. Diabetics can not produce insulin in sufficient quantities, so there is excess sugar in body. Chronic excess of sugar in the blood (hyperglycemia), this becomes toxic to the body.
Diabetes Type
1. Type I diabetes (IDDM / insulin-dependent)
Someone said to type I diabetes, if your body needs insulin supply from outside. This is because the beta cells of Langerhans islands have been damaged, so the pancreas stops producing insulin. Beta cell damage can occur from childhood or as adults.
2. Diabetes Type II (NIDDM / non-insulin-dependent)
Type II diabetes occurs when pancreatic insulin production is not enough or the body fat and muscle cells become resistant to insulin, resulting in disruption of sugar delivery to cells. Usually people affected by this type of diabetes is an adult.
Symptoms – Symptoms of Diabetes
Type I diabetes appears suddenly at the age of children (under 20 years), as a result of genetic abnormalities, so the body can not produce insulin properly. Symptoms for type I diabetes, among others:
• Weight loss decreases
• Fatigue
• blurred vision
• Frequent urination
• Continuously hungry and thirsty
• Increased levels of sugar in the blood and urine
As for the symptoms of type II diabetes appears gradually until it becomes clear interference, and at the same stage as the beginning symptoms of diabetes type I.
Cause Diabetes
The main cause of diabetes in the era of globalization is the existence of lifestyle changes (diet is not balanced, less physical activity). In addition, the existence of stress, genetic disorders, the age of an increasingly elderly can also become one of the causes of diabetes.
Diabetes Prevention
Diabetes can be prevented by changing a balanced diet (avoiding foods that contain lots of protein, fat, sugar and salt), physical activity at least 30 minutes every day (swimming, cycling, jogging, brisk walking), and diligently checked sugar levels urine each year.
Diabetes Remedy
If it is positive diabetic, then you should consult your doctor and follow doctor’s advice with discipline. In addition, the need to go on a diet, because diet is the first step of an effort to control diabetes. However, we recommend that when a diet, it should also be accompanied by regular exercise. And lastly, a blood test to measure sugar levels Diabetes, which is an abnormal disruption of blood sugar levels due to destruction of pancreatic beta cells, so that needs to be controlled carefully.