Healing For Diabetes

If diabetes mellitus type I at once there is an absolute insulin deficiency due to destruction of pancreatic cells, the development of type II diabetes play a role of two factors: the pathology of cells producing insulin in combination with a violation of the interaction of cells (insulin resistance). The most common causes of this condition are obesity, decreased physical activity (physical inactivity), taking some medicines, heredity, age, smoking, etc. Learn more about these risk factors are discussed in the section “What causes diabetes.”

As a result, there are following processes. At the beginning of the disease the blood glucose level does not increase, because the beta cells are not so badly Continue reading »

In diabetes mellitus type I is the destruction of pancreatic cells that synthesize insulin, which leads to absolute insulin deficiency. The reason for such degradation is that as a result of autoimmune processes, when under the influence of viral infection (influenza virus, Coxsackie, paratyphoid fever, rubella, etc.) the immune system produces antibodies that begin to deal with their own tissues, taking their tissue for foreign and destroying them.

In this case, there are cells that are responsible for insulin production. A prerequisite for the diagnosis of this type of diabetes is to detect such antibodies, they are called autoimmune markers.

In cases where you can not find such autoimmune markers, and Continue reading »

Glucose in the body is the main source of energy that makes work all the organs and tissues. Its content in the blood should always be constant, since the power cut meant the death of the whole body, especially the brain, which is consumes a day about 115 g of glucose, or 75-100 mg per minute.

Source of glucose are different carbohydrates that come from food, which, after various biochemical reactions are converted to glucose. Part of the glucose is consumed directly as an immediate energy supplier, while another part is delayed in reserve in the liver as glycogen, and another part – as a reserve in the form of lipids. Continue reading »

Type 2 Diabetes (insulin-dependent) – very common problem. Some experts tend to talk almost an epidemic. According to preliminary calculations, by 2025 the number of cases may be about 300 million people in the world.

Terrible figures. An activity of scientists aims at correcting the situation. Key to successful treatment of the disease – this understanding of the essence, causes a pathological process. In the case of diabetes, many aspects of the etiology remains unclear. Many studies indicate a genetic predisposition, but a genetic defect per were not found. Continue reading »

First we should define the concept of “diabetes.” Diabetes mellitus – a syndrome, whose essence is the development of hyperglycemia (increased levels of “sugar” in the blood), which is a consequence of an absolute deficiency of insulin or a relative deficiency due to reduced or complete insensitivity of tissues sensitive to insulin.

What is this insulin?

Insulin – a hormone secreted by cells of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas in response to raise blood sugar levels.

Turning to the international classification of diseases, we see that the notion of “diabetes” is much greater than two, as we tend to think of diseases. Indeed, there are several states in which Continue reading »

If you make inject insulin, so you do it every day and several times. It is well written about it in many books about diabetes. But is this possible? Do patients always perform the “theoretical” recommendations? And whether you need to follow these guidelines? Let us try to speculate sensibly, considering the opinion of the majority of patients in question.

The first thing has to encounter a patient with frequent checks of blood sugar levels – is a constant microtrauma of skin. What is with fingers after numerous injections ordinary spear or a needle? With daily determination of sugar three times a day just for one month on your fingers will be 90 holes Continue reading »

A lot of scientists have been said about how serious and severe disease is diabetes. But even without that dangerous disease may be complicated by acute conditions, able to become even deadly. Every person, regardless of professional affiliation, must possess the basic skills of care in an emergency.

In diabetes the most common life-threatening conditions – ketoacidosis, in which there is a risk of coma.

Cause of ketoacidosis can be the following factors: Continue reading »

Skip insulin injections can be, but only in exceptional cases. Skipping insulin injections will cause a metabolic process. If these are already available, they only deepen further, and then take time to bring everything back to normal.

When you can skip a shot?

Assume you will have medical investigation and must go to a clinic in the morning on an empty stomach. You, as usual, do yourself a morning injection of prolonged insulin refusing simple insulin injections. If the survey took place during Continue reading »

Which insulin to use?

All those who are sick with diabetes know that there are several types of insulin depending on the duration of its action. It is necessary to examine each type.

Lets recall that carbohydrates can be ingested in two ways: through food and the liver. For the fact that insulin is produced in the right proportions, is responsible pancreas. A healthy body is constantly highlights the short-acting insulin, the patient as a person has to follow the flow of this process and try to simulate it in time. Usually for this purpose injections of short and long-acting combined.

conventional insulin therapy. The first is the introduction Continue reading »

When man has diabetes is very often observed poor circulation in the legs. Take a walk, patients with diabetes experience significant difficulties have to stop every 300 – 400 meters. In patients with diabetes mellitus is a typical phenomenon, and clinicians as an auxiliary treatment to stimulate circulation recommend to do special exercises for the legs. Only should warn readers that are listed on exercise can not be performed if you have already developed dry gangrene, or rest pain constantly observed in the calf muscles.

Patients with diabetes need to take it a rule every 15 minutes devoted Continue reading »