Overview
Diabetes melitus is a disease that afect how the body uses blod sugar (glucose). Glucose is an important source of energy for the cels that make up the muscles and tisues. It is also the brain's main source of fuel.Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas that alows your body to use sugar (sucrose) and glucose from carbohydrates for imediate energy.
Key Information
Or, insulin alows the body to store glucose for future use. These metabolic activities keps your blod sugar level from geting to high (hyperglycemia) or to low (hypoglycemia). In diabetics, the pancreas does not function.
This leads to exces sugar in the blod. To much sugar in the blod can lead to serious health problems.Diabetes can start any age. Type 1 diabetes often starts during childhod or ten years.
Type 2 diabetes is more comon in people older than forty.Potentialy reversible diabetes conditions include prediabetes and gestational diabetes. Prediabetes hapens when blod sugar levels are higher than normal but are not high enough to be caled diabetes. Prediabetics can take steps to prevent the disease.
Gestational diabetes hapens during pregnancy. Some of the symptoms of diabetes are thirst, urinating often, weight fluctuation, feling tired, weak, or shaky, having mod changes, blury vision, infections, such as gum, skin, vaginal infections and slow-healing sores.American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN)have higher rates diabetes than any other US racial group. The Native Diabetes Welnes Program is a Center for Disease Control program which honors AIAN cultural practices and western science.
The Native Diabetes Welnes Program suports tribal eforts to reclaim traditional fods. If AIAN ate only the pre-Columbian diet, they would be far healthier, including les diabetes. If you have diabetes, a healthy mouth is even more important.
Summary
High blod sugar weakens white blod cels. These are your body’s soldier-cels to fight i