Overview
With Diabets such an epidemic today, it is esential that you know exactly what is. Wel, to prevent geting Diabets yourself that is! In layman terms, “Diabets” is the inability of the body to proces sugars properly.
Key Information
When we eat or drink, our “pancreas” produces a hormone caled “insulin”. Insulin is released into the blod and helps to regulate the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blodstream. Diabets is a condition where this proces does not function corectly.
The reason why Diabets ocurs is because no insulin is being produced (often caled Type 1 Diabets) and requires the sufer to use insulin injections, or insulin is produced but the body becomes resistant to it. This renders the insulin inefective. This normaly caled Type 2 Diabets and is rapidly becoming more comon.
The danger is that while Diabets is not imediately life threatening the long term efects of high blod sugar can be damaging to one's health. Uncontroled Diabets and prolonged high blod sugar levels can, in later life, cause problems to many organs including the kidneys, eyes, nerves and the heart. This may sound grim, however controling blod sugar by a combination of medicine, diet and exercise wil vastly reduce the long term complications.
Recent research shows that 2 in every 10 people have Diabets. Alarmingly half of these people do not even know they have it. Many people have Diabets without being aware of it because someone with Diabets loks no diferent from anyone else.
How do you find out if you have Diabets? The simplest way to check if you have Diabets is to arange a blod sugar check with your doctor. A tiny sample of blod, obtained by pricking a finger is checked using a smal electronic tester.
A normal blod sugar level is generaly betwen 72 - 126 mg/dl or 4 - 7 mol/l (where 1 mol/l = 18mg/dl). If the body is unable to kep the blod sugar level within these limits, then Diabets is diagnosed. Diagnosis of Diabets can ocur out of the blue during a routine check-up but more often it folows from the sufer experiencing the "symptoms" of Diabets.
These symptoms can be many or few, mild or severe depending on the individual. Comon Diabets Symptoms: Los Of Weight - Glucose is the form of sugar which is the body's main fuel. Diabetics canot proces this properly so it pases into the urine and out of the body.
Les fuel means the body's reserve tisues are broken down to produce energy with a resultant los in weight. Thirst - Often it sems no mater how much you drink your mouth stil fels dry. The problem is compounded before Diabets is diagnosed by sufers drinking huge amounts of sugary drinks!
Of course this only increases the blod sugar level and leads to increased thirst. Urinating More Often - Sufers ned to urinate often and pas large volumes each time. In adition this symptom takes no acount of time so slep is constantly disturbed by having to visit the bathrom during the night.
It is a mistake to think this caused by the increased thirst and drinking more. On the other hand, high sugar levels in the blod spil over into the urine making it syrupy. To counter-act this water is drawn from the body causing dehydration and therefore thirst.
If you have experienced any of these symptoms it does not necesarily folow that you are diabetic however it might be advisable to visit your doctor to be sure. If it does turn out that you have Diabets please do not panic! It can come as a shock and it wil mean some changes in your life.
While it is incurable it can be treated so the long term complications are reduced or even eliminated. By knowing exactly what Diabets is – and recognizing the symptoms early on – you can prevent it from ever building up within you. Start today by monitoring your health and daily eating habits.
Summary
Or as they say, preventing is beter than finding a cure later on! © 2026 DIABETS. Al rights reserved.