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I am sure that you and I know at least one person is affected by this disease. My mother and my older brother has this disease. The number of patients still multiplying every day. This is mainly due to lifestyle and genetics. Diabetes can be cured or to choose a better lifestyle and residence are given in insulin levels.

What is Diabetes?

With diabetes, the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or the body to insulin is not present, in response to that. Sometimes a person with diabetes have two problems. As a result, glucose builds up in blood and tissues, overflows into the urine and removed. The body loses its main source of fuel.

Types of diabetes

A. Type 1 (insulin dependent)

This usually begins in childhood and involves a malfunction of the pancreas, the organ in the human body responsible for creating insulin. Patients often have daily insulin injections to survive, in order.

B. Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent)

Patients with this type have been the cells that are resistant to insulin. This type can be controlled with dietary changes and regular exercise.

Even with treatment, but both types of diabetes can cause long-term harm to the eyes, nerves, heart and kidneys. These complications can lead to blindness, requiring a heart attack, stroke, kidney disease and serious infections, amputation, or coma.

C. gestational (pregnancy related)

Some women develop diabetes during the third trimester and usually resolves in the months after birth. The mother may develop type 2 diabetes in later life, after developing gestational diabetes.

Symptoms associated with diabetes

Diabetes is often called the "silent murderer because symptoms develop more slowly. Some of the symptoms are;

* Excessive thirst
* Extreme hunger
* Frequent urination
* Sudden changes in vision