Question

What are three other commonly used names for Diabetes Mellitus?

Answer 1

#TYPE 1 DIABETES-- it is also called insulin dependent diabetes and juvenile diabetes.

Diabetes means when blood glucose or blood sugar levels are too high in body.With type 1 diabetes pancreas does not make insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose get into your cells to give them energy. Without insulin, too much glucose stays in your blood and high blood glucose can lead to serious problems of heart, eyes, kidneys, nerves,gums and teeth.

Type 1 diabetes usually happens in children and young adults but can appear at any age.

>cause:

it is an autoimmune disorder. This is a condition that occurs when body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. With type 1 diabetes, an infection or another trigger causes the body to mistakenly attack the cells in the pancreas that make insulin.

>Symptoms:

• Polydipsia (Being very thirsty)
• Polyuria (Urinating often)
• polyphagia (Feeling very hungry )
• tired
• weight loss
• Slow healing(Having sores that heal slowly)
• Having dry, itchy skin
• Losing the feeling in your feet or having tingling in your feet
• Having blurry eyesight

>Treatment: includes insulin,diet and exercise.

A blood test can show if you have diabetes. If you do, you will need to take insulin for the rest of your life.Taking several insulin injections every day or using an insulin pump. Monitoring blood sugar levels several times a day.

#TYPE 2 DIABETES--

It is a most common type of diabetes mellitus.It is also called non insulin dependent diabetes.It is a metabolic disorder and occurs when body fails to use insulin properly.Also referred as insulin resistance.In relative insulin deficiency the pancrease produces either normal or excessive amount of insulin but body is unable to use it effectively,such that glucose levels remain elevated.

>Causes...

*Obesity

*Lack of exercise and activity.

*Genetics

*Stress

*Eating a lot of foods or drinks with sugar.

>sypmtoms....

*Polydipsia (incresed thirst).

*Polyphagia(increased hunger)

*Polyuria(increased frequency of urine)

*Extreme fatique

*Weight loss

*Loss of muscle bulk.

>Treatment...

*healthy lifestyle_It mean lose weight if you are overweight

eat healthy food.

*Also need to take some oral medicines according to doctor prescription.

#GESTATIONAL DIABETES MELLITUS--it happens during pregnancy.It means have high blood sugar level but these blood sugar levels return to normal soon afrer delivery.

>causes:

*During pregnancy,placenta makes hormone that can lead to a buildup of glucose in your blood.Usually placenta can make enough insulin to handle that if not blood sugar level will rise and cause gestational diabetes.It usully happens in the 2nd half of pregnancy.

*family history

*overweight before got pregnant..if a women will obese before pregnancy then she will already have insulin resistance that is why has more chances of gestational diabetes.

symptoms:

*feeling thirsty

*feeling hungry

*more urination

>Treatment...

*check blood glucose level more than 3 times a day.

*urine test to check ketones.

*helathy diet

*exercises

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