The Three Types Of Diabetes

There are 3 types of medically recognized diabetes. Insulin is the common factor: How it is used by the body, how it is made by the body. These 3 types are broadly described thus:

Type 1: Insulin production does not occur. It's all centered on the insulin organ, the pancreas. This can be because of over work due to long-term resistance to insulin requiring long-term overproduction or pancreas destruction by disease (certain sorts of flu have been know to cause this for instance). Natural deterioration may make injection of insulin required, via manual blood sugar readings, measuring the comparable insulin and injecting it, or if you are equipped with it, an automatic pumping device.

Type 2: Monitoring is required because insulin production and/or use is abnormal. Type 2 diabetes is associated with high blood sugar levels after eating and other blood sugar control issues, but not using insulin. Your pancreas can produce several times more insulin than it normally needs to, but the stress can call cause failure. Until that time, your inability to use insulin well (insulin resistance) stresses the organ. In many, insulin resistance occurs through the combination of being overweight and systematic nutritional starvation. If you are obese, the odds of being told you have type 2 diabetes go up. Chronic lack of correct nutrition causes the body to use insulin as a nutrition scavenging source as well as a transport mechanism for blood sugar into the individual cells, requiring more insulin to be present within the system.

Insulin is used better with daily exercise. This generally results in the body needing to produce less insulin.

Bodily fluids are slowed by too much insulin - both the fluids inside and outside body cells. Poor circulation affects the body, starting in the extremities for some. Nerves in the hands and feet become damaged commonly. Ultimately things like strokes, heart attacks, and plugged arteries occur with thick fluids being a cause of poor circulation. The circulatory system is stressed. Doctors are expected to treat a type two diabetic as having had a heart attack in any case.

Relatively new is Type 3 diabetes. Divisions start to breakdown with this description. Insulin is produced, but because of insulin resistance or quality issues, additional insulin is introduced from outside sources. This requires a person to inject insulin in a similar manner to a person with a Type 1 diagnosis. Why did doctors recommend injecting insulin to type 2 diabetics? Because control of diet, exercise, or oral medication didn't work out. Sad to say, but in some, it is because people don't do what's right for them.

The progress of this disease must be monitored by both the doctor and patient carefully, including the injection of any sort. A sure way to avoid a lot of suffering and a significantly shorter life is to control your eating rather than adding more insulin as needed.

By: RR Donohue

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