Simple ways to handle Diabetes

Most people cannot do without taking a bottle of soft drink in each meal, when served with water will not be able to finish a glass but can go for three to four bottles of soft drink or any other drink in a day. The rate at which people are not careful with what they eat and drink is a serious issue; someone who wants to take pap, they will sweeten with lots of cubes of sugar, ho! What a deadly habit. Too much intake of sugar can actually result in some complication that will result in too much sugar in the blood. This write up will expose all you need to know about this silent killer diabetes. Enjoy and stay healthy.

What is diabetes mellitus?

 Diabetes mellitus is simply defined as the increase in the level of blood sugar. And this can be because the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin or once cells cannot react to the insulin that has been produced by the pancreas. and the unset of these can result to frequent urination, high thirst to replace what has left the body, increase in your appétit for food, weight loss, bladder infection, high blood pressure etc. there is also complication that arises from prolong diabetes and this may include:

Skin infection

Eye infection

Nerve infection

Kidney disease

High blood pressure

Ulcer

Foot infection

Cancer etc

Three main types of diabetes are:

(a)    Juvenile-onset diabetes (type 1 diabetes) this is mostly found in children, young adult and adolescents and is results from auto-immune destruction of the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas. In the type 1 diabetes, the production of insulin reduces and completely ceases. People that suffers from this type of diabetes needs the injection of insulin daily so that it can help to control the level of glucose in the blood, if this injection is not administered the person will surely die.

(b)   Non-insulin dependent diabetes (type 2 diabetes) this is found in 85% of individuals and is cause by two reasons which are: reduction in insulin secretion and also a decrease in its activity on the liver and muscles. This is normally called insulin resistance. One of the major disorder that can arise as a result of these is OBESITY meaning that people with this kind should try as much as possible to limit the intake of fat ant also control their nutritional habit.

(c)    Gestational diabetes this type of diabetes is mostly noticed during pregnancy when the individual has high blood glucose, it usually disappears after pregnancy put the person is at risk of type 2 diabetes later years to come.

How to prevent diabetes

Try as much as you can to reduce the in take of juice, soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, processed food.

Engage in physical exercise so that you will burn off excess fat.

Eat foods that are high in fiber like fruits, vegetables, whole grains etc.

Make water your best drink.

Avoid fried foods and eat cholesterol free food.           

Avoid too much of carbohydrate foods.

Test yourself to know if you are at risk

Make sure you take your drugs as prescribed by the doctor.

Don’t miss your appointment date.

Take your doctors advice very seriously and practices them.