If you have diabetes, your body isn’t able to properly process and use glucose from the food you eat. There are different types of diabetes, each with different causes, but they all share the common problem of having too much glucose in your bloodstream. Treatments include medications and/or insulins. Some types of diabetes can be prevented by adopting a healthy lifestyle.
What is diabetes?
Diabetes happens when your body isn’t able to take up sugar (glucose) into its cells and use it for energy. This results in a build up of extra sugar in your bloodstream.
Why is my blood glucose level high? How does this happen?
The process of digestion includes breaking down the food you eat into various different nutrient sources. When you eat carbohydrates (for example, bread, rice, pasta), your body breaks this down into sugar (glucose). When glucose is in your bloodstream, it needs help – a “key” – to get into its final destination where it’s used, which is inside your body’s cells (cells make up your body’s tissues and organs). This help or “key” is insulin.
If you have diabetes:
1:Your pancreas doesn’t make any insulin or enough insulin.
2:Your pancreas makes insulin but your body’s cells don’t respond to it and can’t use it as it normally should.
If glucose can’t get into your body’s cells, it stays in your bloodstream and your blood glucose level rises.
Who gets diabetes? What are the risk factors?
Factors that increase your risk differ depending on the type of diabetes you ultimately develop.
Risk factors for Type 1 diabetes include:
1:Having a family history (parent or sibling) of Type 1 diabetes.
2:Injury to the pancreas (such as by infection, tumor, surgery or accident).
3:Presence of autoantibodies (antibodies that mistakenly attack your own body’s tissues or organs).
4:Physical stress (such as surgery or illness).
Risk factors for gestational diabetes include:
1:Family history (parent or sibling) of prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes.
2:Being African-American, Hispanic, Native American or Asian-American.
3:Being overweight before your pregnancy.
4:Being over 25 years of age.
How to control diabetes mellitus?
Diabetes: An Overview:
If you have diabetes, your body isn’t able to properly process and use glucose from the food you eat. There are different types of diabetes, each with different causes, but they all share the common problem of having too much glucose in your bloodstream. Treatments include medications and/or insulins. Some types of diabetes can be prevented by adopting a healthy lifestyle.
What is diabetes?
Diabetes happens when your body isn’t able to take up sugar (glucose) into its cells and use it for energy. This results in a build up of extra sugar in your bloodstream.
Why is my blood glucose level high? How does this happen?
The process of digestion includes breaking down the food you eat into various different nutrient sources. When you eat carbohydrates (for example, bread, rice, pasta), your body breaks this down into sugar (glucose). When glucose is in your bloodstream, it needs help – a “key” – to get into its final destination where it’s used, which is inside your body’s cells (cells make up your body’s tissues and organs). This help or “key” is insulin.
If you have diabetes:
1:Your pancreas doesn’t make any insulin or enough insulin.
2:Your pancreas makes insulin but your body’s cells don’t respond to it and can’t use it as it normally should.
If glucose can’t get into your body’s cells, it stays in your bloodstream and your blood glucose level rises.
Who gets diabetes? What are the risk factors?
Factors that increase your risk differ depending on the type of diabetes you ultimately develop.
Risk factors for Type 1 diabetes include:
1:Having a family history (parent or sibling) of Type 1 diabetes.
2:Injury to the pancreas (such as by infection, tumor, surgery or accident).
3:Presence of autoantibodies (antibodies that mistakenly attack your own body’s tissues or organs).
4:Physical stress (such as surgery or illness).
Risk factors for gestational diabetes include:
1:Family history (parent or sibling) of prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes.
2:Being African-American, Hispanic, Native American or Asian-American.
3:Being overweight before your pregnancy.
4:Being over 25 years of age.
