Introduction to Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease prevalent in our time and the beginning may be caused by hereditary micro or other factors and the cause of this disease is the inability of the pancreas to produce the required amount of insulin or insulin product is ineffective, leading to disorders, the most important for diabetes is the high sugar In the blood the disease is detected by increasing blood sugar which leads to the kidneys being unable to observe the sugar and therefore sugar appears in urine analysis. If high blood sugar persists for a long time without controlling the height, it will damage the blood vessels and if it continues to cause complications in the kidneys, nerves and peripheral vessels and the occurrence of complications in the retina. If this blood sugar is controlled, .
There are two types of diabetes:
1- Type 1: And this is what affects children and young people and is easily detected because the symptoms are clear and this type of disease requires the beginning of insulin treatment without hesitation to reduce the serious complications of children and these symptoms, which illustrate the ease of detection of diabetes in children:
1 – frequent going to the bathroom (frequent urination) and urination may be voluntary or involuntary.
2. Extreme thirst and weight loss
3 – fatigue and exhaustion and a sense of numbness.
4 – In some cases may suffer from abdominal pain.
5. The feeling of hunger.
6. Vaginal infections in females.
As we have mentioned, prompt treatment should be urgently needed to avoid complications as this disease breaks down insulin-producing pancreas cells and thus the immune system begins to form antibodies to pancreatic cell components, leading to further cracking of pancreatic cells that produce insulin.
2- The second type: This type of the most common type and affects adults (usually over the age of forty) and this type is accompanied by other diseases such as: high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and obesity, which makes patients of this type more susceptible to atherosclerosis, the cause of this The type is the lack of effective insulin produced by the body is the cause of obesity or may be due to lack of movement or the use of some drugs. As for the detection of this disease, the symptoms are not clear Therefore, a periodic analysis of sugar (1-3 years), especially in cases The following:
• After the age of forty
• The presence of family members suffering from diabetes.
• The presence of diseases such as obesity, high blood pressure, high blood lipids and gout.
• The appearance of sugar during pregnancy or the birth of overweight children.