Diabetes: Control it Before it Takes your Control
Diabetes, medically known as Diabetes Mellitus is the most prevailing disease through which a large number of people are suffering. The main cause of this disease is increased level of glucose in the blood. Insulin hormone produced by the pancreas is responsible for the breakdown of glucose in the blood and its conversion into energy which is then used by the body. Insufficient production of insulin hormone glucose level in the blood rises results into Diabetes.
When the glucose level in the blood increases, complications start taking place. The complications are of the two types:
• The first one being, direct, as energy cannot be produced by the sugars, the body is starved of energy and this leads to weakness and dizziness.
• The second problem is an inter-related problem. Here as and when the sugar level in the blood increases other systems of the body start to malfunction. It mainly affects the kidneys, and then comes the nerves of the eyes leading to blurred vision. The toughest condition is when the heart is affected. Plaque starts building up along the walls of the arteries and lining layer and this could lead to stroke or other heart related problems at any time.
Diabetes is most commonly found in people with overweight. There is not one cause of Diabetes. There are several factors which results in Diabetes. Today it has covered even children also. Diabetes is neither an infectious nor a hereditary problem. It has been found in research that women are more prone to Diabetes.
Many precautions are available in the market to keep Diabetes in control like sugar free alternate for sugar, low calorie sugar supplements, Diabetes checker, etc.
Check Blood Glucose Level:
• When the sugar level is between 65 and 140 for every deciliter of blood checked, it is considered that the person is normal
• A person suffering from diabetes normally has a blood sugar level of 250 to 350 for every deciliter of blood.
• A person with blood sugar level of 350 and above is considered that the person is having extremely high blood sugar levels
Diabetes Test at Home:
One can suffer from one or combination of two or more symptoms. Some of very common symptoms of Diabetes are excessive urination, excessive thirst, and infections like rashes / thrushes, sudden loss of weight, extreme hunger, extreme fatigue, and feeling of nausea, irritability, vomiting, sweet smelling breath, dizziness and blurred vision
Tips to keep Diabetes in control:
• Make your Diabetes meal plan
• Use Low Calorie sugar free supplements
• Eat food that have less fat and salt
• Eat foods containing more of fiber like breads, polished rice, pasta
• Avoid Smoking, Drugs and Alcohol
• Brush and Floss your teeth daily
• Eat healthy food and avoid food with more calories like fried food, junk food, sweets
• Live stress free life
• Exercise Daily
• Control your weight
• Check for your blood glucose level regularly
• Consult Doctor if you find any symptoms for diabetes
• Report any changes in your eyesight to the doctor
Jyoti
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admin on April 24th 2010 in Diabetes and Blood Glucose
Aniket G responded on 24 Apr 2010 at 11:48 pm #
Hi I m an 20 yrs old boy actually i was discovered with diabetes 3 months before now it’s under control?
but tell me would in future i would suffer frm kidney disorder or if i would take control of my sugar level then ? please answer if u r dan doctor
hermanclausan responded on 25 Apr 2010 at 4:50 am #
If you keep it under control , you probably will live a normal life. You did not say if TYPE 1 or 2. but this answer goes for both.My biggest concern would be blindness . That is my biggest worry
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cubby responded on 25 Apr 2010 at 4:52 am #
I’m not a doctor, but know a lot about diabetes. I am a diabetic and also is my husband.
Now to your question. Keeping your blood glucose in a normal range is the one way you can prevent or prolong kidney problems or renal failure. There are also other disorders that goes along with out of control blood glucose, such as high blood pressure. High blood pressure over an extended period of time can also do damage to your kidneys and keep them from filtering properly. This is what happened to my husband. He has stage# 3 renal failure, which stage # 5 is complete renal failure. Bleeding behind the eyes, due to out of control blood glucose levels, which can lead to blindness. Neuropathy foot and hand pain. Very bad pain, this keeps my husband from getting a good nights sleep. Heart trouble…., which all can shorten ones life.
Take care of yourself ok?
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celenaper responded on 25 Apr 2010 at 4:54 am #
There is a nutraceutical that can be of great help to you and your condition of diabetes. It involves raising your glutathione levels at the cellular level.
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Diabetes and Glutathione Status
Patricia A.L. Kongshavn, Ph.D
Former Professor: Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Diabetes affects 10-25 million North Americans most, as yet, undiagnosed. It is, of course, an insulin disorder that impairs the body’s ability to metabolize sugar. Although this problem is dealt with by providing insulin or drugs to lower blood sugar, diabetic individuals exhibit other related medical problems.
One of the main complications of this illness is damage to the circulatory system (both large and small vessels) leading to atherosclerosis (plaque build-up in vessel walls), heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, renal failure, neuropathy (nerve damage), blindness and gangrene. The other main complication of diabetes is an impaired immune system, as a result of which diabetics are more likely to succumb to infections (another reason why they are at risk for gangrene).
It is well documented that diabetic individuals have an increased level of oxidative stress and free radical formation in their tissues. By the same token, their blood and tissues are marked by critically low glutathione levels. A reasonable assumption is that the increased oxidative stress depletes the tissues of glutathione, the latter being the major intracellular antioxidant responsible for neutralizing the free radicals.
There is good evidence that a weakened glutathione antioxidant system is responsible, at least in part, for the observed cardiovascular disease seen in diabetics and a role for supplementation with antioxidants has been proposed, for example by Giugliano et al. and Dominguez et al. as well as others. Similarly, the impaired immune function seen in diabetics could be due, at least in part, to glutathione deficiency. (The importance of glutathione for the immune system is discussed in the article entitled ‘The Immune System: Role of Glutathione’).
Thus, there is a clear indication for using this nutraceutical in diabetic individuals to raise intracellular glutathione levels and thereby ameliorate the major complications that accompany this illness.
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2. Dominguez C et al. Oxidative stress at onset and in early stages of type I diabetes in children and adolescents. Diabetes Care 22:870-3,1999
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4. Guigliano D et al. Diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: which role for oxidative stress? Metabolism 44:363-8,1995
5. Thornalley et al. Negative association between erythrocyte reduced glutathione concentration and diabetic complications. Clinical Science 91:575-582,1996
6. Yoshida et al. Weakened cellular scavenging activity against oxidative stress in diabetes mellitus: regulation of glutathione synthesis and efflux. Diabetologica 38:201-210.1995
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