Diabetes is a non-communicable disease. It is the condition when your pancreas stops producing insulin.
This happens with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Basically, the autoimmune system believes the pancreas is a foreign body and sets out to destroy the insulin producing in it.
Yes. Sonia Sotomayor was diagnosed with Type I diabetes, an autoimmune disease that attacks the pancreas and destroys the body's insulin-producing cells, at age 8. In type I diabetes (formerly known as juvenile diabetes) the body stops producing the insulin hormone that converts sugars and starches into energy. Although it can be managed with diet, exercise and insulin injections, it does not remit like Type II diabetes sometimes does. Sotomayor's diabetes is reportedly well controlled, with A1C levels consistently under 6.5.
The pancreas is supposed to make insulin, glucagon, and enzymes. When you become a diabetic, either the pancreas stops making insulin, or the cells in the body are unable to use insulin. If the pancreas stops making insulin, that is type one diabetes, and if the body cannot use insulin, that is type two diabetes. While it is possible to cause type one diabetes with alcohol abuse, both forms of diabetes are often a result of an immune response. Type one diabetes is usually childhood onset, and a virus or the immune system attacks the pancreas. Type two diabetes is often acquired through bad diet. You might get so much fat and plaques from the fat that the body mistakes it for invaders. So the body ends up targeting insulin receptors.
If insulin stops working, your blood sugar goes up. Simple as that.
You do not become diabetic by injecting yourself with insulin; your body naturally produces insulin. You become diabetic when your pancreas stops working well (or stops working at all.) However, you could lapse into a coma and die if there is too much insulin in your body. Do NOT inject insulin into yourself or anyone else unless told by a doctor to do so.
No. Diabetes is not cured by using insulin injections. You are giving yourself insulin injections because your body cannot produce enough insulin itself; therefore, if you were not to take the insulin injections you would have further detrimental complications. Once your body stops making insulin, it never "starts" making it again.
Type one diabetes is very different from type two. If you go to the hospital, they will tell you which one you have. Type one is when a patient's pancreas stops working for no particular reason and stops producing insulin. It cannot be cured. Type two is when a patient becomes unhealthy through obesity or genetics and thier pancreas stops producing insulin. With proper exercise and diet, it can be cured
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Diabetes is not a disease (inability function) due to weakness or damage of any system organs linked to the pancreas that inhibit production of insulin or weak insulin for a blocked phase due to multiple factors such as life style,lack of exercise,hypertension,diet etc. leading to two types (Type 1 or Type 2). Either there is production of insulin but weak and cannot convert sugar embed in blood cells to free energy or very little or no even no insulin production. As almost all system organs are involved it is difficult to determine which particular organ is responsible to inhibit the insulin function. It has been debated that it could be linked to genetics but that could be corrected by stem cell therapy today. Traditional medicines have also helped but every person has to get a specific module therapy made for cure of the ailment. There are many physicians today who specialize in specific module therapy. Your pancreas stops producing insulin.
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