Showing posts with label Diabetes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diabetes. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Gestational Diabetes

Gestational Diabetes are normally found on pregnant woman. Normally, their blood sugar are too high causing gestational diabetes. When blood sugar is too high for a pregnant woman, it is also not good for the baby.


Causes of Gestational Diabetes:

Changing hormones and weight gain occur during pregnancy. both changes make it hard for your body to keep up with its need for a hormone called insulin.


Risk Factor for Gestational Diabetes:

  • Pregnant Woman.

  • have gestational diabetes before and gave birth to large babies.

  • family history of diabetes.

  • Stillbirth in previous pregnancy.

  • Birth defects in previous pregnancy.

  • Obesity

Gestational Diabetes does not really cause any symptoms. However, if the pregnant woman experience any increase in thirst, urination, hunger or blurred vision should be tested for diabetes. Anyway, most of the time, pregnant woman have to go for diabetes tests between 24th to 28th week.

Normally, gestational diabetes can be under control and the possible complication can be prevented. It does not cause any birth defects but the baby may be quite large when at birth and this may cause birth injury due to the baby's size and difficulty in giving birth.

After delivery, the baby may have Hypoglycemia(low blood sugar for the baby) because during pregnancy, the baby have consistent high insulin from the mother, once it is out of the mother's womb, the baby will no longer have the high blood sugar from the mother and hence resulting low blood sugar.

Too much insulin or glucose in the baby's system will also delay lung maturation and cause respiration difficulties in babies.

Hence, during pregnancy, the mother should take extra precaution in taking care of themselves. Avoid having too much sugary food.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Diabetes Type 2

In contrast to Type 1 Diabetes, Diabetes Type 2 still produce insulin but the body does not response to the insulin properly.

What are the risk factors of Diabetes Type 2?
-Age
- Family history with diabetes.
- Obese.
- Unhealthy eating habits (most of the people who are obese have very bad eating habits)
- High Cholesterol
- High triglyceride level
- Lack of exercises

- Race and enthnicity (more common in African-American, Native American, Latino, Pacific Islander and Asian-American populations )

Nearly more than 21 millions of americans got diabetes type 2. Just like Diabetes Type 1, it have to be taken with extra care to avoid complications. Diabetes Type 2 patient can be affected with problems such as kidney failure, nerves damage, vision problem, erectile dsyfunction and depression etc.



Thursday, April 24, 2008

Diabetes Type 1

Diabetes Type 1 is more common in Caucasians than in those of Latino, African-American, or other non-Caucasian backgrounds.

Risk Factor for Diabetes Type 1:

-Inherity
If their parents have diabetes, their child will have higher risk of getting diabetes.

- Autoimmune Diseases
Thyroid problem and Celiac Diseases raise the risk of getting diabetes type 1.

- Viruses
Some viral infection may trigger the disease.

People with Type 1 Diabetes requires insulin to lowers blood sugar by allowing it to leave the blood stream and enter cells. Insulin injections everyday is a MUST for them as their body cannot produce insulin. Of course, beside injecting insulins everyday, their diet is also very important. They should be eating very healthy diets that can allow the food and insulin to work together to regulate blood glucose levels. If their diet is not balance, their glucose will not be kept at healthy level.

Beside these, Diabetes patient should also have regular exercises as this will control their sugar level and also burn fat that can lead to overweight.

Diabetes is best treated seriously in order to avoid any further complication. Further complication can be like heart disease, kidney problem, eye problem and many......

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Diabetes Type

How many different types of diabetes are there? Basically, there are 3 types of diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes , Type 2 Diabetes and gestational diabetes.

Type 1 Diabetes (also known as junvenile diabetes)

  • most commonly on children and young adults.
  • body produce little or no insulin, which means they lack of the functionality of converting the sugar into energy.

Type 2 Diabetes

  • most commonly on middle age people.
  • body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin.
  • Normally people with Type 2 diabetes have high cholesterol or high blood pressure.

Gestational Diabetes

  • happen on pregnant women.
  • Pregnant women who have never had diabetes but have high blood sugar levels during pregnancy.
  • They developed insulin resistance. When the body is not able to make and use all the insulin needed for pregnancy. It also cannot be converted into energy and this process is called hyperglycemia.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

What Causes Diabetes?

Is Diabetes really due to too much intake of sugary stuff? Well, consuming too much sugary food is definitely not good for our health. Although eating sweet stuff is not the direct cause of Diabetes, it may cause one person to become obese and normally that is to associated with Type 2 diabetes.

Causes of Diabetes:
- Heredity
Sometimes it is due to the genes that passes down from one generation to another. Hence, their risk of getting diabetes is higher.

- Improper Diet
Improper Diet is always the most common cause to Diabetes. Low protein and High Fibre intake or great consumption of refined products eg. refined sugar may cause greater risk of getting diabetes.

- Stress
Any disturbance in Cortiosteroid or ACTH therapy may lead to clinical signs of the diseases like physical injuries or emotions imbalanced.

- High Blood Pressure
People who are having high blood pressure is exposed to higher risk of diabetes.

- Obesity
people who are over weight tend to have very poor diet. They normally have higher insulin resistance.

- Age
People who are in the middle age like 40s-50s will get diabetes much more easily than young people. Although, there are people who got diabetes at the age of 20s but the risk is not as high as compared to middle age people.

- Lack of Exercise
It best advised to exercise regularly. People who exercise little or do not exercise are more prone to diabetes.

- Drug Induced
Clozapine (Clozaril), olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel) and ziprasidone (Geodon) are known to induce this lethal disease.

- High Alcohol Intake
People who are excessively drinking alcohol also can get diabetes.

- Pregnancy
Pregnant lady should watch out on their diet. Many pregnant lady got slightly higher glucose level during their pregnancy and that is normal. However, too high will cause diabetes too.


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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Treating Diabetes The Right Way

Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life.

Symptoms of Diabetes:

  • You urinate more often than usual.
  • Excessive Thirst.
  • Blurred Vision.
  • Feel tired easily.
  • Weight loss.
  • Cuts or sore that are difficult to heal. Especially, when there is a cut, blood difficult to get dry.
  • Dry mouth.
  • Itchy skin or yeast infection.

To confirm whether you are having diabetes, it is advisable to use a blood glucose test strip. For diabetes patient, it is very important to have your blood glucose level monitored. It was because of this consistent monitoring, doing this kind of test can be quite expensive in long run. I would suggest diabetes patient to buy cheaper and more affordable blood glucose strips at Hocks Pharmacy.

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Diabetes can lead to many kind of complications like kidney or heart problem if left untreated or not treated properly. So if you suspect having diabetes, please start treating now.