Type 1 Diabetes. Symptoms of hyperglycemia
By Kenneth Langlet
Type1 diabetes is far less common than type2 diabetes and it will affect
younger individuals. It is most found in people under the age of 40 and
mostly under the age of fourteen. There are people who have been diagnosed
with it after forty but it is very rare. Diabetes is a serious issues and
type one is the worst. It is associated with the lack of insulin. It is a
dysfunction of the pancreas where it will just stop making insulin in the
amount the body needs to maintain a normal level of glucose in the blood.
Many people who have type1 diabetes will have symptoms of hyperglycemia.
Hyperglycemia is where your glucose is too high in the blood. Meaning your
blood sugar is too high. The common symptoms of hyperglycemia or diabetes
type one is frequent hunger, frequent urinating, and frequent thirst. You
will also experience blurred vision, fatigue, weight loss, your healing
power will be low (meaning it will take you a long time to heal a wound or
cut), dry mouth, dry or itchy skin, and you could have impotence for
males. Your immune system will become weak and you will be able to pick up
infection easily.
The reason why you are always hungry is because your body can not use
glucose as an energy source. It is also, why you tire out easily. Since
the body can not absorb sugar or glucose into the blood cells you will
release it through frequent trips to the bathroom. Since you make many
trips a day to the bathroom, your body realizes that it is losing excess
water and that’s why you will become thirsty. When it comes to the
symptoms, you may experience them all together or it may take some time
for your body to go through the process. Most likely though it will be
gradual.
The changes of developing type one diabetes is 3.7 to 20 per 100, 000.
Over 700,000 Americans have type1 diabetes, which adds up to be about ten
percent of the total population that has the disorder. It is more common
to have type2 diabetes. The reason why people develop the disorder is
because an autoimmune disorder. The body will start to see it’s own tissue
as a foreign object and then it destroys the body’s ability to make
insulin. It has been rumored to be a cause from the mumps, rubella,
measles, influenza, polio, or other viruses. That’s why it is very common
in young children because those epidemics affect younger children more
often than older adults. Diabetes is also genetic. You may simply have the
disorder because an immediate family member has it.
As for treatment, type one involves injections of insulin. It is absorbed
in the blood stream and absorbed by the cells that need insulin and it
will then control the levels of sugar in the blood.
Kenneth Langlet is an independent writer and webmaster on the site
http://www.all-about-diabetes-symptom.com/ where you can find more
information about diabetes symptom.
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