What is Diabetes?

What is Diabetes?

Diabetes is a common disease caused because the pancreas does not produce the amount of insulin the human body requires. Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas. Primarily its function is the maintenance of appropriate blood glucose values. It allows glucose to enter the body and be led into the cells, so it becomes energy for the muscles and tissues to function. Therefore, it cooperates with the cells to accumulate glucose until its use is necessary.

In people with diabetes, there is an excess of blood glucose (hyperglycemia) so it is not distributed well. Specialists say that if diabetics do not continue proper treatment, the tissues can end up damaged and can produce very serious complications to the body.

The causes and symptoms that patients show depend on the type of diabetes:

Diabetes Type 1

The prevalence of this type 1 diabetes with higher incidence is infancy, adolescence and the first years of adult life. Generally occurs suddenly and most vaguely to have a family history. The causes of type 1 diabetes primarily are the increasing deterioration of pancreatic cells, which make insulin. The symptoms are the increase without any cause the person has the need to drink more water and the increase in the amount of urine, feeling tired and the decrease of weight in spite of the increase of the desire to eat.

Diabetes type 2

Mostly it presents in more advanced ages and is more usual than the previous one. Normally, type 2 diabetes would have been suffered by other members of the family. It occurs as a consequence of insufficient insulin production, together with the insufficient use of the substance by the cells. As a result, the patient is asymptomatic, ie he does not present any type of discomfort or specific symptom, so it can go unnoticed for the affected person for a long time.

Major symptoms of diabetes 2 include: Frequency of urination (wet bed phenomenon in children), feeling of unusual hunger, excessive thirst, weakness and tiredness, weight loss, irritability and changes in mood, feeling sick in the stomach and vomiting, cuts and scratches that do not heal, or heal slowly, itching or numbness in the hands or feet, recurrent infections of the skin or bladder, high levels of glucose in the blood and urine. Type 2 diabetes is the one that is observed continuously. It can be avoided by following a healthy lifestyle, as it is directly related to obesity.