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Diabetes : Causes and How To Medical Treatment


Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease. Must Complete or partial absence of the hormone insulin by the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. Its deficit caused no absorption of cells, glucose, resulting in a decrease in the synthesis of energy deposition in the cells and blood sugar increase (Hyperglycemia).


CAUSES OF DIABETES
Why is this disease is born, it is not entirely clear. It is known that many factors can intervene, such as:
- Inheritance
- Eating habits
- Pancreatic diseases, inflammation, or surgery as interveciones
- The infectious process
- Autoimmune
- Stress
- Obesity, the predominant cause of type II diabetes.

KIND OF DIABETES TYPES
There are generally two types of diabetes, age at which it seems:
- Type I or juvenile diabetes usually appears at an early age, but their appearance can be given up to the age of 30 years. The pancreas stops producing insulin altogether. The onset is sudden.
- The type II diabetes or adult-appears after age 40 Of age. Insulin production in the pancreas may even be higher than normal, and the body develops a resistance to it. Get 15% of people over 70 years.

Symptoms
All types of diabetes are common symptoms:
- Hyperglycemia: The amount of sugar in the blood is normally between 70 and 110 mg / dl. In the case of more than 150 mg / dl, and hyperglycemia, excess glucose in the blood.
- "Fabrics hungry" polyphagia cells do not absorb carbohydrates, are malnourished, who called a rolling hunger
- Polyuria: Excessive urination as the body tries to get rid of excess sugar.
- Polydipsia: Because of the polyuria, the body loses fluid. Therefore, excessive thirst, you will waste a lot of water.
- Fatigue: Fatigue. This was caused by the abuse of glucose in the muscles.
Weight loss -
- Itching: Itching by the accumulation of glucose in the skin is.

Methods of Diagnosis
The diagnosis of this disease can be carried out, initially alarmed by the typical symptoms and states, poor wound healing. Then, three important tests:
- Blood
- Analysis of urine, to determine both the amount of sugar.
- Curve of glucose: variations determines the amount of sugar in the blood after eating a certain amount of sugar.

COMPLICATIONS
The real problem of diabetes complications that can accompany:
1) neurological, nerve pain, diabetic encephalopathy, sexual impotence ...
2) Renal: A diabetic glomerulosclerosis and urinary tract infections. The risk is 25 times higher in diabetics.
3) Eye: The injury is the most popular diabetic retinopathy, blockage of the blood capillaries of the eye. 25% of all blindness is to these.
4) the skin: skin infections, ulcers, dryness, light bulbs ... and even gangrene.
5) Cardiovascular: People with diabetes are more likely to develop atherosclerosis. This can lead to heart attack, angina pectoris and heart failure.
6) and other problems in different organ systems: foie gras .. Arthropathies
7) Do you eat well because they: diabetes (excess glucose) and insulin (low blood sugar).

TREATMENT
The three pillars for the treatment of diabetes are:
- Measures the proper nutrition, avoiding the vibrations of carbohydrates in the blood, food abuse habits like eating at the same times as long, and finally, not everyone of fats and proteins.
- Exercise, always thinking about it, and it is wise to do it correctly, the person representing the diet.
- Drug therapy, knowing that the type I diabetes is entirely dependent on insulin, and Type II is usually treated with antidiabetic drugs in general.

Currently, there are the experimental procedure with a new hope for curing this disease:
- Transplantation of embryonic stem cells in the diseased pancreas
- Transplantation of islet cells from deceased donors. The cells were combined in the diseased pancreas with strong immunosuppressive therapy and injected through the adaptation of the body begins to produce insulin.
- Percussion insulin external pump. It consists of an insulin reservoir, a motor, a microprocessor and a thin tube that the patient is placed under the skin.

 


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