What is Diabetes??????

Question

My cousin has diabetes. and I always hate bringing it up. but just now she was telling me how her sugar was low and she needed something to eat. Well I wass like we have some candy bars in the fridge, and she was like NO, it's not the sugar i need it's the carbs. I always thought you needed to eat sugar if your sugar was low. or is that when your high? can you please help me, try to explain to me about diabetes? thank you

Answer 1

Diabetes is when your pancreas stops producing insuling or isnt making enough of it..therefore you have to take shots of it..etc

Answer 2

The reason she said she needed carbs, is because there are carbs that break down into sugars that the body uses to create insulin that a diabetic can't get on its on.  Keep some orange juice on hand for when your cousin comes to visit.  Its the quickest way to help a diabetic get the right kind of sugar and raise their blood sugar.

Answer 3

Diabetes mellitus (IPA: /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/ or /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtəs/, /məˈlaɪtəs/ or /ˈmɛlətəs/), often referred to simply as diabetes (Greek: διαβήτης - to pass through <urine>), is a syndrome of disordered metabolism, usually due to a combination of hereditary and environmental causes, resulting in abnormally high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia).[2] Blood glucose levels are controlled by the hormone insulin made in the beta cells of the pancreas.[3] The two most common forms of diabetes are due to either a diminished production of insulin (in type 1), or diminished response by the body to insulin (in type 2 and gestational).[4] Both lead to hyperglycemia, which largely causes the acute signs of diabetes: excessive urine production, resulting compensatory thirst and increased fluid intake, blurred vision, unexplained weight loss, lethargy, and changes in energy metabolism.

All types of diabetes have been treatable since insulin became medically available in 1921, but there is no widely available cure for any form of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes can only be treated with injected insulin, with dietary and other lifestyle adjustments commonly being part of the treatment. Type 2 is usually managed with a combination of dietary treatment, tablets and, frequently, insulin supplementation. Insulin can also be delivered continuously by a specialized pump which provides subcutaneous insulin through a temporary catheter.

Diabetes and its treatments can cause many complications. Acute complications (hypoglycemia, ketoacidosis, or nonketotic hyperosmolar coma) may occur if the disease is not adequately controlled. Serious long-term complications (i.e., chronic side effects) include cardiovascular disease (doubled risk), chronic renal failure, retinal damage (which can lead to blindness), nerve damage (of several kinds), and microvascular damage, which may cause impotence and poor wound healing. Poor healing of wounds, particularly of the feet, can lead to gangrene, and possibly to amputation. Adequate treatment of diabetes, as well as increased emphasis on blood pressure control and lifestyle factors (such as not smoking and maintaining a healthy body weight), may improve the risk profile of most of the chronic complications. In the developed world, diabetes is the most significant cause of adult blindness in the non-elderly and the leading cause of non-traumatic amputation in adults, and diabetic nephropathy is the main illness requiring renal dialysis in the United States

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Answer 4

if you eat to much of bad foods like white breads, white rice, noddles and other stuff like that can cause Diabetes.

you also get Diabetes when you eat because your body doesn't produce enough insulin and then your body suffers and that is another way that you can get Diaetes and if you have family that have Diabetes you have a every good chance of get it........

Answer 5

well my friend diabetes is a non-transmissible disease ......

Answer 6

not sure