give me a description on how you can get each type of diabetes and how to be careful. diabetes runs in our family, but i am not familiar with the disease. all i know is that it means you have high blood sugar?
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Type 1 (or juvenile onset) also known as Insulin-dependent is when the pancreas fails to produce any insulin at all
Type 2 Diabetes can be controlled by proper medication, diet, and exercise. This is the one that is hereditary. ————————————-
Some of the more common symptoms are:
frequent thirst
frequent urination
headaches
blurred vision
unexplained weight loss
tingling in the fingers
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type 1 – onset in childhood – an auto-immune disease. Not reversible.
type II – adult onset – due to being fat and lazy and having a lousy diet. Generally reversible through proper diet and exercise.
The only reason type II diabetes runs in families is because they all have the same lousy eating habits and lazy ways.
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Diabetes is the inability of the body to utilize glucose (sugar) because of the decrease or lack of insulin production. Type I or juvenile is the type that occurs when the pancreas is damaged either by illness or injury and has shut down, no insulin produced, these patients are always and will always be insulin dependent. Type 2 or adult onset is when the body doesn’t utilize insulin well (is insulin resistant) or insulin production is decreased, this is the hereditary type and can be influenced by family history, obesity and diet. These patients are not necessary insulin dependent. It is now believed that children with diabetes have contracted some unknown virus that for some reason attacked their pancreas and causes diabetes.
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“Type 1: Results from the body’s failure to produce insulin. It is estimated that 5-10% of Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 1 diabetes. Presently almost all persons with type 1 diabetes must take insulin injections.” Your pancreas basically stops working.
“Type 2: Results from a condition in which the body fails to use insulin properly, combined with relative insulin deficiency. Most Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.” You can get this one if you’re overweight and/or very unhealthy.
“Gestational diabetes. Pregnant women who have never had diabetes before but who have high blood sugar (glucose) levels during pregnancy are said to have gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes affects about 4% of all pregnant women and is usually of type 2.” My mom got diabetes when my brother was born but she stayed diabetic.
“Pre-diabetes. Termed "America’s largest healthcare epidemic,"pre-diabetes is a condition that occurs when a person’s blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. As of 2009 there are 57 million Americans who have pre-diabetes, in addition to the 23.6 million with diabetes.”
I don’t normally trust wiki solely but comparing it to personal experiences this article seems to add up.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes
Type 1: Immunilogical disorder, known as juvenile diabetes in the past. White blood cells kill the insulin producing cells in your pancreas overnight. You have no insulin producing capability. You get it or you don’t.
Type 2: Insulin resistance. You lay around and eat refined carbohydrates so much your pancreas wears out trying to make insulin. Solution: Excercise and eat healthy.
Gestational Diabetes (yes there is a third)
Occurs sometimes during pregnancy. Ends after birth. Can continue if you are already at risk for type II.
Insulin acts as a key to let sugar (your gasoline) into cells to burn for energy. Type 1 with no insulin, sugar builds up in blood with no where to go, causing death by flooding your engine. Type 2 your body’s receptor cells for insulin are wearing down, your pancreas is going overdrive making extra insulin that can’t get into cells fast enough, and the end result can be the same.
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Type 1 diabetic 8 years.
There are 4 main types;
Type 1. This is not strictly a childhood onset. Mary Tyler Moore was diagnosed at 33. This is an autoimmune disease where the beta cell dies and insulin production ceases.
Type 1.5. Type 1.5 is one of several names now applied to those who are diagnosed with diabetes as adults, but who do not immediately require insulin for treatment, are often not overweight, and have little or no resistance to insulin. When special lab tests are done, they are found to have antibodies, especially GAD65 antibodies, that attack their beta cells. This sort of diabetes is sometimes called Slow Onset Type 1 or Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults or LADA*
Type 2. These are diabetics where the beta cells are not dead but the body can not properly transport the glucose and the cell use glucose properly. Eventually T2 pancreases burn out from working so hard so they end up on insulin too.
Gestational Diabetes. Diabetes developed during pregnancy. Most women will not continue with Diabetes post-delivery. All GD’ers run the risk of Type 2 for 10 years post pregnancy. 5% develop Type 2.
The term "Pre-Diabetes" is dispelled by diabetics. Once ones blood sugar starts to rise consistently where an A1C of 6% or higher occurs, it is very difficult to reverse. We do not have control over our pancreas to do so.
*LADA stands for Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults. It is the term for Adult type 1.
Characteristics of LADA include:
* Adult age at diagnosis (usually over 25 years of age)
* Initial presentation masquerades as non-obese type 2 diabetes (does not present as diabetic ketoacidosis)
* Initially can be controlled with meal planning with or without diabetes pills
* Insulin dependency gradually occurs, frequently within months
* Positive antibodies
* Low C-peptide levels
* Unlikely to have a family history of type 2 diabetes
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diabetic
Basically:
Type 1 (or juvenile onset) also known as insulin-dependent is when the pancreas fails to produce any insulin at all
Type 2 diabetes can be controlled by proper medication, diet, and exercise. This is the one that is hereditary. ————————————-
Some of the more common symptoms are:
frequent thirst
frequent urination
headaches
blurred vision
unexplained weight loss
tingling in the fingers
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