What Is Diabetes

The full name of Diabetes is diabetes mellitus in which it is a metabolism disorder.  Actually metabolism of the body means that it converts the digested food into energy and growth. The food we eat shall be broken in to glucose so as to give energy to all the parts of body.   That glucose is a form of sugar and dissolves in the blood to fuel up the body with energy.  The glucose dissolves in to the blood with the help of insulin.  Our cells make use of glucose for growth and energy.   Insulin is a hormone produced by pancreas.  After eating food, pancreas secretes adequate quantity of insulin to move the glucose of our blood in to the cells thus lowering the blood sugar level.  Actually this is the process of metabolism of our body.

The person who is suffering with diabetes will have such a condition in which the glucose in the blood will not enter in to the cells considerably thereby refers to a conditions called hyperglycemia.  As the body could not produce enough insulin, no insulin or do not respond properly to the insulin produced by pancreas.  Too much glucose levels build up in blood leads to diabetes.  Excess glucose present in the blood passes through the urine.  Though the blood has enough glucose, it won’t get enter into the cells, thus people seem dull and tired.  Essential energy and growth cannot be seen in such persons.

Actually diabetes mellitus means siphoning off sweet water.  China people observed that ants are getting attracted to the urine of some people and hence they termed it as sweet urine disease.  There are three types of diabetes generally seen in most of the people where no insulin is produced at all, producing less insulin and diabetes during the pregnancy.  Types I and II are very chronic medical conditions.  Type III can be resolved after the pregnancy and there exists no problem with such type.  After giving birth to the child, even traces of diabetes also cannot be seen in the person.

There is treatment for diabetes and many doctors are now doing specialization of diabetes also.  First and second types lasts for a life time and there is no prescribed permanent treatment for its cure.  Through medicines they will consume the insulin and makes their lives better.  Type 1 shall be cured only with the help of injecting insulin into the body.  Type 2 can be controlled with tablets, regular body exercise and with special diet.  At rare cases, they too shall be treated with insulin injections but not always.

Prevention is better than cure.  This proverb suits this disease well.  If the person with diabetes is not kept his levels under control, he shall have to face the risk of developing lot of complications such as ketoacidosis, hypoglycemia etc., Long term complications may effect to major organs of the body like kidney failure, nerve damage, gangrene on the feet, poor healing of wounds etc. On the whole, diabetes is unlike all the diseases have to control it to the maximum extent.