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- Title: Type I Diabetes, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions
- Author : Kenneth Kee
- Release Date : January 05, 2019
- Genre: Medical,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 149 KB
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This book describes Type I Diabetes, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases
Type I Diabetes normally is treated by endocrinologists rather than family doctors because of their treatment with insulin injections.
Type I Diabetes is the most important of all the autoimmune diseases.
The pancreas secretes the hormone insulin, which helps control blood sugar levels.
In type I diabetes mellitus, the immune system attacks and obliterates insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
High blood sugar results can cause injury in the blood vessels, and organs like the heart, kidneys, eyes, and nerves.
Diabetes is a disorder that affects how the body uses glucose, the main type of sugar present.
The bodies break down the foods people eat into glucose and other nutrients the body needs, which are then absorbed into the bloodstream from the gastrointestinal tract.
The glucose level in the blood rises after a meal and activates the pancreas to make the hormone insulin and release it into the bloodstream.
But in people with diabetes, the body either cannot make or cannot react to insulin properly.
Insulin acts as a key that opens the doors to cells and lets the glucose in.
Without insulin, glucose cannot get into the cells (the doors are "locked" and there is no key) and so it stays in the bloodstream.
As a result, the level of sugar in the blood stays higher than normal.
High blood sugar levels are a disorder since they can cause a number of health disorders.
The 2 types of diabetes are type I and type II.
Both produce blood sugar levels higher than normal but they do so in different ways.
In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas has lost its ability to make insulin because the body's immune system fights and kills the cells that produce insulin.
No one knows precisely why this happens, but doctors think it has something to do with genes.
Just getting the genes for diabetes is not normally enough.
A person would then have to be exposed to something else like a virus to get type I diabetes.
Ultimately, this strain can make the pancreas not able to produce enough insulin to keep blood sugar levels normal.
Type I diabetes can not be prevented, and there is no real way to predict who will get it.
Nothing that either a parent or the child did produce the disease
Once a person has type I diabetes, it does not go away and requires lifelong treatment.
Children and teens with Type I diabetes are dependent on daily insulin injections or an insulin pump to control their blood glucose levels.
New in the Treatment of Type I Diabetes
Doctors and researchers are developing new equipment and treatments to help children cope with the special problems of growing up with diabetes.
Some children and teens are already using devices that make blood glucose testing and insulin injections easier, less painful, and more effective.
A new method is the insulin pump, a mechanical device that can deliver insulin more similar to what the pancreas does.
There is also been progress toward the development of a wearable or implantable "artificial pancreas."
This comprises an insulin pump linked to a device that measures the person's blood glucose level continuously.
Doctors and scientists are investigating a possible cure for diabetes.
This requires transplanting insulin-producing cells into the body of a person with diabetes.
Doctors are also testing ways to stop diabetes before it starts.
Doctors are studying whether diabetes can be prevented in those who may have inherited a higher risk for the disease.
Parents can assist their children to maintain happier, healthier lives by:
Giving constant encouragement,
Making sure their children eat properly
TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Chapter 1 Type I Diabetes
Chapter 2 Causes
Chapter 3 Symptoms
Chapter 4 Diagnosis
Chapter 5 Treatment
Chapter 6 Prognosis
Chapter 7 Diabetes Nephropathy
Chapter 8 Diabetes Neuropathy
Epilogue