an introduction
Diabetes is the imbalance in the mechanism of glucose use in the body. The importance of glucose is to provide the cells with the necessary energy to perform their functions. For a certain reason, this blood glucose is disturbed, causing many problems, which are called diabetes. Glucose in the blood is higher than normal levels and allowed to accumulate, and the body becomes unable to convert fatty substances into energy, which turns into sugars in the blood, and these large amounts of sugar harmful to the body and works to damage the eyes and kidneys and other parts of the body.
Insulin secreted in the pancreas regulates the amount of sugar in the blood and any imbalance in insulin leads to imbalance in blood sugar.
The symptoms of diabetes in the form of frequent urination and thirst, extreme weight loss and excessive and persistent hunger and severe and the incidence of confusion in the vision and lack of clarity and the sense of fatigue and exhaustion and exhaustion.
Types of diabetes
- The first type is called children’s sugar because it often affects the children and adolescents, where the body does not produce insulin despite its existence.
- The second type, where the body lacks insulin production, is the most common type among people.
- Gestational diabetes that affects women in pregnancy only or may extend with women until after pregnancy.
Causes of diabetes
- Genetic factors.
- Infections caused by viruses that cause damage to beta cells.
- Eat high calorie for long periods, causing weight gain and inability of the pancreas to secrete insulin.
- Severe mental stress.
- Age; the higher the incidence of diabetes.
- Pancreatic injury such as damage caused by inflammation, benign and malignant tumors, or the pancreas may be completely eradicated for some reason such as cancers.
- Endocrine problems.
- Thyroid inflammation occurs.
Treatment of diabetes
There is no cure for diabetes, but the drugs are given to stimulate the production of insulin or insulin to provide the body in the case of type II diabetes, and the goal of treatment is to control the amount of sugar in the blood to remain within the limits allowed.
You must adapt to diabetes and follow specific ways to control your blood sugar including:
- Eat a healthy diet that contains vegetables and fruits, move away from desserts and sugars, and distribute the amount of carbohydrates on the day’s trees and not take them at once.
- Do the appropriate exercise.
- Stay away from alcohol and alcohol and stop smoking.