Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is not as common as diabetes type 2. Type 1 diabetes is mostly found on younger people below 40, especially found on people below 14. There are few cases that type 1 diabetes founded at people after 40, but its very rare.
Type 1 diabetes is the worst type of diabetes, people with type 1 diabetes needs injection of insulin. The insulin injection are needed because the pancreas are unable to produce sufficient amount of insulin the body need. Insulin are needed to maintain normal sugar level in the blood. People with type 1 diabetes often affected with hyperglycemia.
Hyperglycemia is a condition where the blood glucose level is too high. People who has type 1 diabetes and hyperglycemia has few symptoms such as frequent hunger, thirst and urinating. Other symptoms like fatigue, weight loss, dry mouth, dry or itchy skin, healing from wound or cut will take longer, the immune system weak making easier to get infections, and for male it can cause impotency.
People with type 1 diabetes become quickly tired because the body cannot use glucose as an energy source that also makes them to get hungry more frequent. The excess glucose then discarded from the body trough the urine, makes them go to toilet more often. This condition also makes the body needs to rehydrate, so they will feel thirsty and dinking more often. The other symptoms can come all together or will come gradually.
The cause of type 1 diabetes is the autoimmune disorder. The body starts to see their own tissue as foreign object then attacks it, on this case is the cells that produce the insulin. Making the body cannot produce the insulin. Its rumored to be the cause of the mumps, rubella, measles, influenza, polio. That is why type 1 diabetes often had by children because those epidemics has more effects on children than older people. Diabetes is also genetic, someone can get diabetes form their descendents.
Type 1 diabetes effects 3.7 to 20 per 100,000 population. Over 700,000 Americans suffers from type 1 diabetes, that’s about 10% from Americans who has diabetes. Most of them has diabetes type 2.
Treatment for type 1 diabetes involves the insulin injection. The injected insulin will runs in the blood current and then absorbed by the cells that need insulin. It will eventually control the blood sugar level.
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