No drugs, fight diabetes naturally

iv. BITTER MELON(mormodica Charantia) : Bitter melon is used as both food and medicine in the tropics and has a long history if use in Africa, Latin America and Asia. It possess a variety of beneficial properties related to detoxification. Recent discovery shows that it is effective in controlling diabetes.

Ayurediccure stated that 'the blood sugar lowering action of the fresh juice or extract of the unripe fruit has been clearly established in both experimental and  clinical studies. Bitter melon is composed of several compounds confirmed anti-diabetic properties'. 'Most people are familiar with using the leaves as mild laxative. But the emphasis here is on extract of the unripe fruit.

The oral administration of 50-70ml of the juice extract has shown good results in clinical trials. In fact, a large study at Harvard University Medical School concluded that bitter melon is one of the best natural remedies for diabetes. The dosage for the juice extracted from the unripe bitter melon(mormodica ) is one glass daily.

The preparation of bitter melon:

1. Thoroughly wash one pound of bitter melon fruit (pod).

2. Chop the fruits into small pieces and put them into a blender.

3. Add two glasses of clean water.

4. Blend for two minutes until it turns into liquid

5. Pour mixture into strainer and squeeze pulp to obtain the Maximum amount of liquid.

6. Use liquid portion for drink(within 3 days).

V.  Onion and garlic: Onions and Garlics have significant blood sugar lowering action. Onions gets rid of sugar from the body by burning it off and must be eaten raw, because it has a greater effect in raw form. Garlic may be eaten in so many ways, but take it raw to achieve best results

Take one to three cloves preferably in the morning. If you will use the improved (large) breed, one clove is sufficient. Cut it into bits and swallow them the same way you swallow capsules. Take 25grams to 200grams per day.

Vi.  Grape fruit:  Dr. Riley, an expert in nutrition, said that " Grapefruit is a splendid food in the diet of a diabetic patient. If grape fruits were eaten more liberally, there would be much less diabetes. If you have diabetes, use three grapefruits three times a day (which means a total of 9 grapefruit). And if you do not have diabetes, but have a tendency towards it and you want to prevent it. Use three grape grapefruits a day".

Bear in mind that grapefruit should not be eaten with carbohydrates, instead it goes really well with proteins like beans and fish. The reason is that, carbohydrates require alkaline medium for digestion, whereas grapefruit and protein require acid medium for digestion.

VII   Mango Leaves:  mango leaves are easily obtainable, the tender leaves of the mango tree are considered useful in diabetes. An infusion is prepared by soaking 15grams of fresh leaves in 250ml of water overnight and squeezing them well in the water the next morning. This filters should be taken every morning to control early diabetes.

As an alternative, the leaves should be dried in the shade, powdered and preserved for use when necessary. Half a teaspoon of this powder should be taken twice a day.

VIII. KIDNEY BEAN POD: kidney bean post tea has permanently cured diabetics. Dr. Riley says that ' a diabetic patient who had taken this treatment 12 years previously and stopped using it stayed cured. Others whose sugar returned even after using it were able to find relief again by using it again. The length of time involved was three to four weeks, during which a strict diabetic diet was observed.  Only the pods are used. They must be fresh.

* Boil one ounce in four quarts of water, slowly, for four hours.

* filter through fine muslin

* cool it for eight hours

* and strain again.

Take one glassful every two hours.

Ix  Exercise Regularly: knowing fully well that sedentary lifestyle contributes to diabetes, it is recommended that people with type 2 diabetes should exercise regularly. This way they are able to loose weight and gain better control of their blood pressure, thereby reducing their risk of cardiovascular disease (a major complication of diabetes).

Studies have also shown that people with type 1 diabetes who performs regular exercise, reduce their need for insulin injections. But there is a warning here! Adults over the age of 35 years with previous sedentary habits, must consult their physician before embarking on any rigorous exercise. The reason you are to see your physician is that, if you have Atherosclerosis and peradventure in the course of the exercise, you overexert yourself, you are vulnerable to sudden heart attack and death. You know that is why footballers are advised to retire within prescribed age limit of 33 years.

X. How do I know if my Diabetes Remedies are working?

 Learn how to test your blood glucose. Ask your doctor about the best testing tools for you and how often to test. When you test your blood glucose, write down your blood glucose test result, then ask your doctor if your diabetes treatment are working. A good blood glucose reading before meals is 70 and 140mg/dl.

Ask your doctor about how low or how high your blood glucose should get before you take action. One other thing to know is the result of a blood test your doctor does, called the AIC. It shows your blood glucose control during the past 2 to 3 months. For most people, the target for AIC is less than 7%.

If you are diabetic and currently taking prescribed medication, it is important that you should check with your doctor before starting any of the aforementioned supplements, as they could interact with drugs to push your blood sugar dangerously low. Although remedies have a good safety records, it is sensible to avoid them if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

Treatment Of Diabetes Without drugs

I believe to find a solution to a problem, the problem itself must be understood. Since we already know What is diabetes. The next question here NOW is: ' is there a cure for diabetes?. The answer is No, there is no complete cure for diabetes yet. But there are natural remedies to prevent or cure its complications it might develop if it is not well catered for. On this post I will be discussing how you can cure diabetes without taking drugs( I means completely drugless).

Drugless Doctors believed there is a cure for diabetes. The pancreas can be built up again, and permanently cured by removing the causes and correcting the eating habits, many cures have been achieved.

Even if the pancreas is not working well, a little insulin is still usually produced. In addition, there are other glands and organs (like the adrenals) that secrets hormones similar to insulin to help use sugar. Also, there are many foods that contain insulin-like substances or that help build up the pancreas.

 The following measures are recommended for the cure of diabetes.

I. Correct your Diet:  what you eat is extremely important in achieving cure for
diabetes. You most probably would not have had diabetes to begin with, if you had eaten right. For diabetes, refined sugar or sweets are poisons! As a matter of fact, the diet recommended is usually classified into three group:

(a)  Prohibited Food: as a diabetic, you should stay away completely from refined sugar, glucose, all sweets, chocolates, sweet drinks, sweetened milk, canned fruit juice, sweet biscuits, cakes, pie, peppermint, white bread and other flour products, and alcohol. You may take honey in it's natural form (honey contains only 7% sugar).

(b)  Food to be taken in moderation: Cereals (including maize, rice, sorghum, millet, wheat), potatoes, dry fruit, fresh milk, mangoes, grapes, eggs.

(c)  Food that can be used freely:  Green leafy vegetables, tomatoes, cucumber, lean, meat, fresh or dried 

fish, unripe boiled plantains, soybeans, groundnut. Cucumber is particular good for the diabetics, it contain a substance needed by the cells of the pancreas in order to produce Insulin. Similarly, onions are beneficial in diabetes, they contain insulin-like enzymes that burn off sugar. Onions are better taken raw.

Notable points to remember 

*  Meals should by no reason be missed. That is, take food when you need to, do not go on fasting except for health reasons, as will be discussed shortly.

*  Healthful food combination. People who eat anything and everything at the same meal, sooner or later, as time goes on, if caution is not taken, they may suffer from headaches, sour stomach, gall-stone and many other diseases.

ii WATER CURE METHOD

water prevents and helps to cure Adult on-set diabetes in it's early stages, before it becomes an auto-immune producing beta cells. Similarly, water can improve the condition of childhood-onset diabetes.

How do I use water cure for diabetes

The water should be administered according to the following directions.

>  Drink water before meals. Specifically 30 minutes before eating. This prepares the digestive tract (the enzymes for metabolizing the food).

>  Drink water two and a half hours after a meal to complete the process of digestion and correct dehydration caused by food breakdown.

>  Drink water anytime you are thirsty even during meals.

>  Drink water first thing in the morning to correct dehydration produced during long sleep.

>  beverages of any form including sweet drinks and fruit juice are not substitutes for water. Drink plain room temperature water.

>  Salt is a vitally needed element for diabetes (and for general Wellness ). The body needs basically 3 to 4 grams of salt a day. That is when you are taking up to 10 glasses of water.

If you are not taking the 10 glasses of water, a build up of salt intake will gradually make you swell. Also you need to constantly weigh yourself. if you suddenly have gained weight, then you have retained too much salt. Just drink, don't take salt for a day or two and then continue the treatment.

>  The quantity of water you need to drink on a daily basis is stated below. Bear in mind that this is just the minimum requirement you need to drink, which means you should strive to drink above this.

WEIGHT    DAILY WATER REQUIREMENTS

1kg........................33ml
2kg........................66ml
3Kg........................99ml
4Kg........................132ml
5Kg........................165ml
20Kg......................660ml
30Kg......................1litre
50kg.......................2litres
60Kg.......................2.5litres
65Kg.......................2.5litres
70Kg.......................3litres
75Kg.......................3.5litres
80Kg.......................4litres
85Kg.......................4.5litres
90Kg.......................5litres
95Kg.......................5litres
100Kg.....................6litres
110Kg.....................6litres
120Kg.....................7litres

In type 1 diabetes, a regular daily adjustment of water intake time no less than two quarts and some increased salt intake is known to be one of the best treatments of diabetes.

If you are already on medication, continue it until you see your doctor for a check up.

III.  WATER FAST AND FRUIT

For three consecutive days, limit your food to fresh unsweetened fruit juice and water only.  Juice for diabetes treatment are:

Cucumber
Lettuce
Onions and
Green beans.

After the 3 days fruit and water fast, then you can begin a diet for diabetics as stated above in item 1( correct your diet)

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Causes Of Diabetes

most diabetes causes are created in us by our own hands apart from the ones inherited from our parent . The list below explains better: the causes of diabetes includes:

Heredity: the act of transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. This means Diabetes can be transferred from the parent to the children according to Genetics. It runs in the family as they say. Of the total diabetics, more than 46 percent give a family history of the disease,  this tends to be all true particular for type 1 diabetes which begins at childhood.

Obesity:  Your risk of having diabetes goes markedly high if you have excess weight. It is said that, "in diabetes,  heredity loads the cannon and Obesity pulls the trigger". This saying clearly indicates the close relationship between Diabetes and Obesity. It is not an exaggeration to say that Diabetes is the lawful wife of Obesity.  NOW! How do you know if you are overweight? It is when you are 20 percent or more than the ideal weight for your body frame, height and age.

Very Poor Diet:  You are what you eat. Food can maintain or save life, it can also destroy life. Proper food serves the purpose of medicine while improper food works as poison and causes diseases. A philosopher has rightly said that, " very few people die of starvation; the rest die of improper selection of food. It would not be an exaggeration to say that we dig our own graves with our mouth. The question is HOW IMPORTANT IS PROPER DIET? how many thousands today are in our overcrowded hospitals, who never would have been there but for wrong eating. How many have inadvertently been committing slow suicide with their knives and forks. So the message here is to choose the right food to eat and in a moderate form. Don't eat too much because the body only needs a little.

Sedentary lifestyle:  people are used with the habit of waking up in the morning , take their bath and drive to work thinking that is enough. This is so wrong, you need to do some exercise to warm your body. During physical work like exercising, muscles use up a lot of glucose present in the blood. Consequently, the work-load on the pancreas is reduced. When man lives a sedentary life, I believe he is on his way to diabetes.

Side Effects of certain Drugs: long term use of certain drugs like cortisone ( a type of drugs used for arthritis, respiratory disease, Asthma, and skin disease ) contraceptive pills and combination of some other drugs can produce Diabetes by harming the pancreas. Don't know why self medication has now become the order of the day for some people, people would rather go see a pharmacist than go see a doctor. This is wrong (am sorry to say). Even as tiny as headaches, whatever ailment your are experiencing. It is the best opinion to let your Doctor be aware as fast as possible either by phone call or direct eye to eye contact. The wrong use of drugs, as well as long term use of some drugs can damage the pancreas. Also, alcohol use can invite diabetes. Years of heavy alcohol intake increases your risk of developing diabetes. So also is smoking cigarettes.

Failure to drink sufficient water: A person can die faster if deprived of water than if deprived of food. By drinking water you are regulating the body's natural fluid levels. Diabetes seems to be the end result of water deficiency in the brain.When the urge for intake of water builds up in us, we confuse it with hunger; instead of drinking water, we go for food. So we overeat. We eat when the body wants water. The result is we overeat and soon become overweight. And overweight causes diabetes.

Complications of Diabetes

Diabetes is a disease  full of complication, and the reason is well know. The complication of diabetes are more agonizing and torturing than the disease itself. Acute diabetes complications can arise at any time during the course of the disease, whereas the more dreaded chronic complications slowly unfold themselves years after the onset of disease. The following are list of complications of diabetes:

Diabetic coma( unconsciousness ): This is a severe life threatening complication, commonly found in juvenile (child or young) diabetics, but may affect adult as well. This takes place when a diabetic person urinate frequently and did not drink another liquids to replace the water passed out through urine. The blood becomes acidified and thus affects the brain to give rise, first to drowsiness and lethargy and then gradually diabetic coma.

Boils and carbuncles:  persistent boils and carbuncles ( a carbuncles has a number of openings, and it reaches deeper than a boil into the in underlying  tissue). This may, in fact be the first indication of diabetes in some people. The factors responsible for this condition are: (a) high Glucose-level in the blood vessels of the skin and (b) Poor resistance power against whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed of dead white blood cells called PUS.

Acute Gangrene: Gangrene is defined as the death of a mass of tissue or an organ. Gangrene of a toe or foot is 50 to 60 times more common in diabetics than in healthy persons. Without adequate care, even an ordinary injury or small cut on the toe or foot may degenerate into Gangrene. However, wearing of covered shoe can wound the feet and lead to fatal consequence. Many diabetics visits the doctor with this development as their first compliant. Unfortunately, the complication often necessitate amputation of the leg affected.

Complication of the Excretory system:  Five years or more after the onset of diabetes, kidneys starts to get damaged. The filtering units of kidneys become hardened. Besides, the blood vessels of kidneys also become hard and narrow. This leads initially to loss of proteins in the urine and then gradually to a rise in blood pressure, a swelling all over the body and may lead to kidney failure .

Defective Nervous System: Almost 90 percent of diabetics suffer from one or the other complication of the nervous system. However, only 25 to 50 percent of them have to face serious complication. Apart from derangement of the touch sensation in hands and feet, the urinary bladder got weakened. This either leads to incomplete emptying of the bladder or incontinence( The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces). So when the bladder cannot be emptied completely, the retained or residual urine harbor diseases.

Cardiovascular system:  Diabetes speed up the process of atherosclerosis, I.e the degeneration of blood vessels. In diabetics, the inner part of the blood vessels get deposited not only with cholesterol but also with calcium. As a result, flexible and elastic blood vessels are transformed into hard and narrow pipes. Due to narrowing of blood vessels, various organ of the body and the limbs do not get adequate nourishment that is why a diabetic patient experiences bodily pain. There can be stroke and there can be high blood pressure.

Female Reproductive System:  A diabetic woman has to face many problems during pregnancy. Diabetic women develop very large babies in their wombs. This causes great difficulty during the delivery and both the mother and the body have to face risks of an injury during delivery. Also diabetic women more often have stillbirths or deliver babies with congenital defects.

Complications of the Respiratory & Digestive system:  A diabetic person easily contact Infection of the respiratory tract. About 15 percent of the patients suffering from tuberculosis are found to have to have diabetes too. Tuberculosis and diabetes undesirably affects each other to give rise to a vicious circle of complications. Also a diabetic person have to face many disorders of the digestive systems. They often suffer from nausea and vomiting.

Complication of the eye: One of the most feared complications and one of the most difficult to treat is diabetes retinopathy, which can lead to incurable blindness. After cataract and deficiency of vitamin A, diabetes retinopathy is the third chief cause of blindness. 

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The Role Of Insulin

The carbohydrates in our food are digested in the intestine. The end-products of carbohydrate digestion are various sugar, including glucose.

This glucose is absorbed through the Mucous membrane of the intestines to enter the blood-stream. Thus, the concentration of glucose in the blood rises. Insulin makes this glucose available to each and every cell of the body.

If the amount of glucose in the blood is greater than required by the cells, insulin converts it into glycogen and fat, which are stored in the liver (for muscles ), and adipose tissue respectively.

Insulin is also concerned with the metabolism of dietary fats and protein. The end-products of fat digestion are fatty acids. Insulin converts these fatty acids back into fat and stores them in the adipose tissue. Again, insulin prevents the conversion of stored fat into fatty acids. Insulin is also essential for protein-synthesis in the body. If there is a deficiency of insulin, proteins lost due to wear and tear cannot be replaced.

Moreover, when food are digested, they are broken down into the body's basic fuel glucose, a type of sugar. the glucose is absorbed by the blood stream, and is then known as blood glucose or blood sugar. In a person without diabetes, insulin is released by the pancreas after a meal to allow the glucose in the blood to get into the body's cells where it is burned for energy. This brings the level of glucose in the blood back to the normal range.

However, for some reasons not fully known to the experts, in some people, the condition arises when the pancreas fails to produce insulin in sufficient quantity( a defect known as hypo-insulinism), or when the body is unable to use the available insulin. This means that all the glucose in the blood is not fully utilized, and it builds up in the blood stream. This results in high blood sugar which the kidneys have to pass off in the urine, a condition known as 'Glycosuria' in the lay language- diabetes.

In African, Traditionally, there is a way in which diabetes is been tested. Well, depending in the country you are, This trick may not work, but you can still  try this tip to know and be sure if you have diabetes without even visiting the doctor for a test.

1. Go outside of the house in an open area or probably beside  your garbage trash can. But it     has to be outside.

2. Pour a little fresh urine on the ground there.

3. leave the urine there and come back for about 2 to 3 hours.

Observations
You will see ants all around the edge of the urine feeding on it. This is a sign showing that you have diabetes.

Men Symptoms Of Diabetes

The type of diabetes found in men is type two diabetes. It involves adult, it is formerly called  Adult in-set diabetes or non insulin dependent diabetes, it is the most common type of diabetes, affecting about 16 million men as of 2013 global estimation. At least 5.1 million deaths is been recorded every year courtesy of diabetes mellitus.

Not similar in people with type 1 diabetes, patients with type 2 diabetes produce insulin as it's suppose to; but the body cells is not able to react and use up the insulin secreted by the pancreas in a proper manner. This process is called INSULIN RESISTANCE.

When insulin is not sufficient, or the insulin is not properly used as it should,  the glucose (sugar) will not be able to get into the body cells to be used as fuel or energy.  However,  when sugar builds up in the blood streams instead of moving into the cells. Therefore,  the body cells is been deprived from it's essential nutrient,  so it's gets hungry and will nit function or work properly. Additional problems connected with the build up of sugar in the blood stream are:  

* BODY DAMAGE AND EYE DISORDER

Prolonged high blood sugar in the body will make glucose to be absorbed towards the Lens of the eye, destroying the nerves and small blood vessels of the eye. It then changes the original shape of the eye into another shape entirely, causing the vision to change.The kidney and the heart is also affected by this action of small blood vessel damage which makes a man or woman vulnerable to heart attack and stroke disease.

* DEHYDRATION  

THIS is a condition whereby water is been removed from the body. Glucose (sugar) building up in the blood stream can cause frequent urination. After the kidney lose the sugar through the urine, so much water is also lost out of the body, hence dehydration takes place.

* HYPEROSMOLAR NON-KETOTIC DIABETIC STATE

When a type 2 diabetes person urinates severally without filling up the water lost through urine (unable to drink water or any Other liquid substance) , this may cause the person to go into diabetic coma which is a very dangerous complication.

Symptoms Of Diabetes

First of all, the main three early symptoms of diabetes that will be experienced by the person living with diabetes are:   

* Excessive thirst and increased urination
Excessive thirst and increased urination are classic diabetes symptoms. If you have diabetes, unused excess sugar (glucose) builds up in your blood stream. In the absence of insulin, the kidneys are forced to work overtime to filter and absorb the excess sugar. If your kidneys can't retain the sugar , the excess sugar is then excreted into your urine along with fluids drawn from your tissues. As a result of that, it triggers more frequent urination, which may leave you dehydrated. As you drink more liquid substance to quench your thirst, you'll urinate even more.

* Increased appetite
Excessive hunger is caused as a results from shortage of insulin in the body, in response of that, the body switches by burning fatty acid and producing Acidic ketone bodies. This reaction triggers the increase in appetite and hunger for more food. Other condition associated with increased appetite are Depression and Anxiety.

Symptoms in type 1 diabetes may develop quickly for about weeks or even months. Although type 2 diabetes symptoms develops very slowly which sometimes may be absent and not even show at all, making it difficult to detect. However,  there are several other signs and symptoms of diabetes Which will later unfold after the three initial symptoms mentioned above had been observed. The list are:

* Fatigues

Feeling tired or exhausted all the time, sometimes from the inside (abdominal). This may be cause by dehydration from increased urination and your body cells will be weak and not function properly, because of its inability  to use sugar for fuel and energy.

* Weight loss

When sugar is lost from the body through frequent urination, some calories (I.e Fat) will be lost along with the urine, at the same time presence of diabetes will tend to keep the sugar contained in the food you eat from moving into your cells leading to excessive hunger . The combined effect is potentially rapid weight loss, especially if you have type 1 diabetes.

* Blurred vision

Prolonged high blood sugar in the body will make sugar to be absorb into the lens and retina (the back part of the eye), destroying the nerves and small blood vessels of the eye. This will convert the eye into another shape, hence causing the vision to change too. If at the early stage of this symptoms, treatment is not swiftly introduce, hence the end result is vision loss and blindness.

* Slow-healing sores or frequent infections

The presence of high levels of blood sugar weakens your body's natural healing process and your ability to fight infections. Especially in women, bladder and vaginal infections are mostly common.

* Tingling hands and feet

Excess sugar in your blood can lead to nerve damage. You may notice tingling and loss of sensation in your hands and feet, as well as burning pain in your arms, hands, legs and feet.

* Red, swollen, tender gums:

Diabetes may weaken your ability to fight germs, which increases the risk of infection in your gums and in the bones that hold your teeth in place. Your gums may pull away from your teeth, your teeth may become loose, or you may develop sores or pockets of pus in your gums especially if you have a gum infection before diabetes develops.

Symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes

Diabetes type 1 occur most often in children or young adults, people under the age of 30 years old. But it can also occur at any age. Type 1 can develop suddenly and can be severe. The physical state at the time of onset is leanness. The signs of diabetes type one include:

1. Urinating frequently
2. Blurred vision
3. Rapid weight loss
4. Weakness
5. Fatigue
6. Constant thirst and hunger
7. Nausea
8. Vomiting
9. Recurrent skin infection

Symptoms of type 2 Diabetes

This is called insulin independent diabetes or maturity onset Diabetes Mellitus, usually after the age of 35. It usually develops in a gradual process.  The physical state at the time of onset is Obesity. So if you are overweight, please watch out! The more overweight you are, the more likely you are to develop what is called Adult Onset Diabetes. Many overweight adults would not even have diabetes if they could get rid of their weight. The more excessive the weight, the more difficult it is to control the diabetes and the higher the blood sugar goes. The signs of Diabetes type 2 includes:

1. Urinating often like every one hour or two.
2. Blurred vision. Having some black spot on sight. You won't see clearly.
3. Prolonged and unexplained fatigue
4. Sexual impotence mostly in men
5. Dry and itchy skin
6..Excessive thirst and increased hunger for food
7. Numbness or burning sensation in the legs or feet
8.  Developed sores on the feet that do not heal
9. Aching joints, rheumatism.
10. Infection of the gum, bladder or vagina that keeps coming back or heal slowly.

Take your body's hints seriously

If you notice any possible diabetes signs or symptoms, contact your doctor. The earlier the condition is diagnosed, the sooner treatment can begin. Diabetes is a serious condition. But with your active participation and the support of your health care team, you can manage diabetes while enjoying an active, healthy life. 

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Free Information On Diabetes

WHAT IS DIABETES

For a reason or two, so many people have been asking questions about information on diabetes such as, what is Diabetes, causes of diabetes, the types of diabetes, and a host of others. So Dear reader if you are also asking this same questions, then you are in the right place, this blog provides you free diabetes information And everything you seek to know. Please read on.

There is another kind of diabetes called 'DIABETES INSIPIDUS'. Both are similar in the symptoms of excessive thirst and excessive secretion of urine. insipidus is caused by a disturbance in the secretion of the pituitary gland, which controls the use of fluid in the body. But on this blog we are concerned about diabetes mellitus.

Diabetes fully referred as diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has a very large amount of glucose in the blood (blood sugar). There are two ways in which this disease could occur.

(1) either because the insulin the body produce for use is too small (i.e inadequate for usage). or (2). the body's cells that was meant to make use of that insulin produced by the body do not respond properly to insulin, or even both. So People with high blood sugar will experience three major symptoms that will signify And confirm the presence of diabetes in their body .

 (1). polyuria ( urinating every time )

(2). polydipsia (thirsty And always want a drink )

(3). polyphagia (frequent hunger for food).

Diabetes mellitus affects the organ called pancreas, which is an elongated and fairly narrow gland located just behind the duodenum in the upper parts of the abdomen, to gain a clearer understanding of diabetes, it is necessary to understand the role of insulin in the body

If Diabetes in the body is not quickly treated, It may lead to long term severe complications like, Kidney failure, stroke, heart disease, blurred eye which can cause blindness And foot ulcer.

 TYPES OF DIABETES

There are three major types of diabetes mellitus namely:

1. TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS

This type of diabetes is caused because the pancreas did not produce insulin at all or produce a tiny amount which is not enough for the cells to use. Diabetes type 1 occur most often in people under the age 30. But it can also occur at any age. Type 1 was formerly called "Juvenile diabetes, or Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

2. TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS

This is a condition whereby Insulin was produced as it's suppose to, but the cells did not response to Insulin appropriately. It is a common form of  diabetes accounting for 80-90 percent of all diabetes cases. It usually come on later in life and involves factors that interfere with insulin effectiveness in the body.


Insulin moves glucose out of the bloodstream into your muscle cells, but if a person with high blood sugar level constantly drinks coffee and eat sweet or starchy snacks, insulin is constantly being produces with an attempt to regulate it. Under this relentless pressure, either the system that signals the pancreas to produce insulin breaks down, or the body tissues become less  responsive to insulin. A condition called INSULIN RESISTANCE. Type 2 Diabetes was formerly called " Adult on-set diabetes " or Non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The main cause is; Poor diet, not getting enough or no exercise And excessive body weight.

3. GESTATIONAL DIABETES

This is only found in pregnant women Who suddenly develop a high blood glucose level. Without any past record of diabetes. It appears around the 24th week of pregnancy. At that time, the body is making large amount of Hormones to help the baby grow. but these hormones will be blocking the insulin produced by the pancreas from going into the cells. And when something in the body does not allowed insulin to do it's job, it is called 'insulin resistance '.

In most pregnant women, the body makes enough insulin to overcome the insulin resistance. In other pregnant women, the insulin that is produce can not overcome the insulin resistance. These pregnant women are the ones that will have Gestational Diabetes. In 95 percent of the cases, the diabetes disappears after child birth. The rest of the 5 percent of the women still suffers from these disease after child birth. A woman with gestational diabetes at any point in time is at risk of developing another form of diabetes ( Type 2 DIABETES) later in life

Eating of healthy diet, engaging in physical exercise is known to be the primary prevention And treatment for diabetes mellitus, quit smoking And stop drinking beer, And maintaining a normal body weight. Blood pressure control And proper foot Care are very essential for patients with the disease.

Type 1 diabetes must be controlled by Injecting Insulin into the body system. Type 2 diabetes can be well managed with medications whether with insulin or without Insulin. However, living on Insulin And some oral medications will cause the blood sugar level to decrease.

An obese person Who also have diabetes can be well treated by weight loss treatment, it is said to take a very useful measures in people with Type 2 diabetic. Gestational Diabetes commonly disappear after the baby had been born.

GLOBAL ESTIMATION

According to WIKIPEDIA. " Globally, as of 2013, an estimated 382 million people have diabetes worldwide, with Type 2 diabetes making up about 90 percent of the case. This is equal to 8.3 percent of adult population, with equal rates in both women And men. Worldwide in 1.5 to 5.1 million deaths per year, making it the 8th leading cause of death. Diabetes overall at least doubles the risk of death. The number of people with diabetes is expected to rise to 592 million by 2035".

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