Diabetes
Diabetes affects hundreds of people’s lives every day. Someone who has diabetes will need help to regulate his/her blood glucose level the rest of his/her life. Diabetes is a chronic metabolism disorder caused by a deficit or a total absence of the hormone insulin. Our blood has to contain a certain level of glucose at all times. Especially the brain can’t last a minute without this fuel. The glucose level gets too high when it needs more insulin than the body can produce. This can happen when the body is less sensitive to insulin or when the production of it is absent or strongly limited. Symptoms that can point to diabetes are thirst, having to go to the bathroom often, tiredness, blurry vision, skin infections, weight loss and itch at the vagina or penis. Your GP can do a simple test to find out whether or not you have diabetes. It is important to track it at an early stage because a long time high blood glucose level can damage several organs.
There are several types of diabetes. Type 1 and type 2 are the most frequent types. Type 1 usually arises before the age of 40. Here the pancreas, the organ that normally produces the insulin, doesn’t give any insulin to the blood at all. The only way to treat it is to use insulin injections. Type 2 generally comes into being at a later stage in read more
