DIABETES mellituss or more familiarly known as diabetes, one of the diseases that many people in Indonesia suffer from.
This disease is a metabolic disease that causes high blood sugar. The hormone insulin moves sugar from the blood to cells in the body to be stored or used for energy. Well, if you have diabetes, your body doesn’t produce enough insulin or can’t effectively use the insulin it produces.
If not handled properly, with the consumption of drugs and diet. Untreated high blood sugar from diabetes damages nerves, eyes, kidneys, and other organs of the body.
Medically, diabetes is divided into five types or types. Ranging from type 1 diabetes to the rare. What are the types of diabetes? Summarize Healthline, Monday (11/7/2022) which has been medically reviewed by an endocrinologist. Dr. Marina Basina, MD, here is a brief description of five types of diabetes.
1. Type 1 Diabetes: This type is referred to as an autoimmune disease. The immune system attacks and destroys cells in the pancreas, the body’s organ where insulin is made. So far, it is not known for sure what causes the clear attack of the immune system on the pancreas. About 10 percent of people with diabetes, usually suffer from this type.
2. Diabetes Type 2: Occurs when the body becomes resistant alias immune to insulin, and sugar eventually builds up in the blood.
3. Prediabetes: Usually occurs when blood sugar is higher than normal, but still not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes.
4. Gestational diabetes: Condition when blood sugar is high during pregnancy. The insulin-inhibiting hormone produced by the placenta is what causes this type of diabetes to appear.
5. Diabetes insipidus: It is a rare condition, which is not related to diabetes mellitus. Despite the similar name, this is a different condition in which the kidneys excrete too much fluid from the body.
Each type of diabetes has different symptoms, but in general the symptoms include increased hunger and thirst, weight loss, frequent urination, blurred vision, feeling too tired or extreme fatigue, and wounds that take a long time to heal.
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