05 Jan

Diabetes

Diabetes

Diabetes is a condition where patients may end up in very high or low blood sugar. Patients start taking a pill or sometimes insulin in order to reduce blood sugar. However, patients who take too much insulin end up with very low blood sugar.

Nepal comes under one of the six countries of the IDF SEA region. Around the world, the number of people having diabetes has crossed 420 million and among those 82 million people in SEA Region; by 2045 this will rise to 151 million. The data collector found 657.200 cases of diabetes in Nepal in the year 2017.

People over the 18 years of age in the United States, with diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes, is 30.2 million. The figure represents between 27.9 and 32.7 per cent of the overall population. Without consistent and careful management, diabetes can lead to some devastating health complications, including stroke, heart disease, nerve damage, blindness, kidney failure and amputations.

Diabetes does not just occur to the person who is overweight or who has an inactive lifestyle. In fact, some people may carry diabetes from their childhood.

When the diabetes occur?

A person can be consider targeted by diabetic when one of the following occurs:

• When the pancreas in their body stops to produce insulin
• When the pancreas reduces its capacity to produce insulin
• When the body does not respond to the insulin, a term called insulin resistance.

Around 18.2 million of Americans have diabetics and 41 million of them have pre-diabetics. Even having a vast number of diabetic patients, there is no cure to it. Diabetes in life-long disease and cannot be cured. So, in order to stay a healthy life, diabetic patients need to manage their disease.

The role of Insulin in Diabetic

Understanding the importance of insulin in diabetic, helps us to know about how our body uses food for energy. The body of all plants and animals are made up of millions of cells. These cells need food to convert it into energy. When the food is consumed by us, the food breaks down into a simple sugar called “glucose”. That glucose is then transported to the cells of the body through the bloodstream where it can be utilized to provide energy that a body needs for daily activities.

Hormone Insulin helps to tightly regulate the amount of glucose in the bloodstream. Insulin is always released in less amount by the pancreas in the body. When the pancreas found the amount of glucose is increased to certain level glucose in the blood, it releases more insulin to push more glucose into the cells.

In order to keep the blood glucose level from getting too low which is often said hypoglycemia or low blood sugar, our body sends us a hint to eat and release some glucose from storage kept in the liver.

People are said to have diabetic either their body stops to make insulin or their body’s cells are not being able to respond to the generated insulin, which leads to the high level of sugar circulating in the blood called high blood sugar.

Types of Diabetes

Diabetes are categorized into three major types.

• Type 1 diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes
• Type 3 diabetes.

Source: https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/guide/diabetes-basics