Type 2 Diabetes

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What is Diabetes Type 2,

What Causes Diabetes trype 2,

What are the symptoms of Diabetes type 2,

What treatment is there for Diabetes type 2

Do You Have Diabetes?
Millions of people have Diabetes Mellitus, commonly called diabetes. You may be surprised to know that many of these people don’t even know they have it.

Diabetes is a serious disease and should not be ignored. If you have it, correct treatment can help you live a long and healthy life.

What Is Diabetes?
If you have diabetes, your body can’t make or use insulin. Insulin helps change sugar into energy to keep you alive.

There are different kinds of diabetes. The main ones are type 1 and type 2.

Type 1 Diabetes
This type of diabetes is mostly found in children and young adults. If you have type 1 diabetes, your body does not make insulin and you must inject insulin daily.

You May:
urinate often
be very thirsty
be very hungry
lose a lot of weight
be very tired
be irritable
have blurred vision
have trouble seeing.
Type 2 Diabetes
Most people with diabetes have this form of the disease. Type 2 is usually found in people over 45, who have diabetes in their family, who are overweight, who don’t exercise, and who have cholesterol problems. It is also common in certain racial and ethnic groups (blacks, American Indians, and Hispanics) and in women who had diabetes when they were pregnant. If you have type 2 diabetes, your body cannot make enough insulin or correctly use it. Treatment is diabetes pills and sometimes insulin injections, as well as diet and exercise.

You May Have:
any of the symptoms of type 1 diabetes
a lot of infections
cuts or bruises that heal slowly
tingling or numbness in the hands or feet
skin, gum, or bladder infections that keep coming back.
Controlling Diabetes
Daily monitoring and careful control of blood sugar levels are the most important steps to take for people with diabetes. If not treated, diabetes can cause:

High blood sugar (which could make you thirsty, tired, lose weight, urinate often, or give you infections that won’t go away)
Many serious health problems (which could hurt your eyes, kidneys, nerves, or heart).
Warning: Low Blood Sugar
People with diabetes may develop low blood sugar because their blood has too much insulin or other blood sugar-lowering medication or from not eating enough food. It is important to follow the eating and medication schedule your doctor has prescribed to avoid low blood sugar.

Low blood sugar could make you shaky, dizzy, sweaty, hungry, have a headache, have pale skin color, have sudden mood or behavior changes, have clumsy or jerky movements, have difficulty paying attention, feel confused, or have tingling sensations around the mouth.

Taking Care of Your Diabetes
The best way to take care of your diabetes is to make sure the levels or amount of sugar in your blood are near the normal range. This will make you feel better and help you stay healthy.

Your doctor will tell you how often to check your blood sugar level. To do this, you will need to take a drop of your blood and place it on a special test strip. Then a device, called a blood glucose meter, reads the strip. This device measures the amount of sugar in your blood.

Writing down this level, along with the time and date, will help you see how well your treatment plan is working.

Remember:
A person’s blood sugar level rises after eating any meal that contains carbohydrates or protein. Table sugar (also called ?sucrose) counts as a carbohydrate. Artificial sweeteners, such as saccharin, aspartame (NutraSweet), and sucralose (Splenda), do not count as carbohydrates or fats. They make food taste sweet. But they do not raise blood sugar levels and have little or no calories.

What Else Can You Do?
Eat well-balanced meals. The right amount of healthy food will keep your weight under control and help manage your diabetes.

Your body needs food from the four main food groups every day:

Fruits and vegetables (oranges, apples, bananas, carrots, and spinach)
Whole grains, cereals, and bread (wheat, rice, oats, bran, and barley)
Dairy products (milk, cheese, and yogurt)
Meats, fish, poultry, eggs, dried beans, and nuts.
Remember:
Too much fat and cholesterol in your diet can be very harmful to people with diabetes. Food that is high in fat includes red meat, dairy products (whole milk, cream, cheese, and ice cream), egg yolks, butter, salad dressings, vegetable oils, and many desserts.

Can You Do Anything Else?
Exercise is important for good diabetes control. It usually lowers blood sugar and may help insulin work better. Exercise and a healthy diet can also help you take off extra pounds if you are overweight.

Warning:
Check with your doctor before starting any exercise program. You may need a snack before or during the activity to avoid having low blood sugar while you exercise.

I’m looking an answer more in terms of the internal biological effects and not the treatment for these types of diabetes.

In type 1 diabetes, some agent, very likely a virus, attacks and destroys the beta cells that produce insulin. In type 2 diabetes, the insulin producing mechanisms wear out over time, and those insulin producing mechanisms can be exceeded by and/or exacerbated by too much weight, mass. Physical injury to the pancreas can also cause diabetes.

how close are we to finding a cure and how long would you estimate? if so, what types of treatments are there that might be available? does legalization of stems cell research have an effect? sorry for too many questions on a cure, but just curious on its progress. i hope it’s soon, for the sake of someone close to me.

What the heck is "Murse Dan" talking about? Insulin uptake and resistance occurs at the tissue level, not in the blood or the pancreas.

If this guy is in the health field, I’m scared.

Anyway, the best hope for curing T2 diabetes is prevention, both at the genetic level and the lifestyle level.

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Losing weight, excersise, healthy eating, and working with your doctor are the best treatments for type 2. Eliminating all sugar, wheat, and flour from your diet works as well. That’s what I’ve done and my sugars are the best that they’ve been in a long time!

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Suppressive medications (such as Valtrex) or topical products (like Dynamiclear) can help to speed the healing of the outbreak and prevent a reoccurance.

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The first method that is always tried is diet and exercise. Type 2 diabetes occurs becuase of insulin resistance in the body, meaning there is too much fat. By decreasing fat stores through diet and exercise, you decrease the insulin resistance in your body. However, if this fails, there are many different medications out (and many in development) that can be prescribed by your doctor. However, it is important to realize that diet and exercise are still an important part of the treatment of type 2 diabetes. It is very important to keep doctors appointments when you have type 2 diabetes because changes may be made to your medications and this needs to be monitored carefully.

I’d say that as long as you are well-controlled, then the answer is no.

pharmacology and non-pharmacology… thanks…

Diabetes 1 your body produces no insulin and you must take insulin to keep your blood sugar under control (diet, excercise and oral hypoglycemics will sometimes be given to help control sugars).

Diabetes 2 your body does not produce enough insulin so treatment is aimed at helping your body control sugar … start by controlling diet, then add oral hypoglycemics (metformin, glyburide, avandia etc…) and insulin only if necessary.

HbAic test to see wether treatment is helping with longterm sugar control.

Hope this helps,

C

I don’t know if "disappear" is the correct term to use here. Type II diabetes is ordinarily associated with obesity and insulin resistance. Insulin levels are actually normal or increased.

A patient who loses weight to a normal level and who eats well and exercises may eliminate the need for diabetic medications. This is not really the same as a cure, though, more of a means to control the problem.

Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult for obese people to lose even modest amounts of weight, and many diabetic medicines lead to a gain in weight.

Just wondering if anyone has tried it and how they got on

Got a person in my family going to start it soon so just curious really

I used Byetta and Meformin for a year to control my diabetes. It kept my blood sugar down to about 130 most of the time. Indigestion and Constipation are a constant problem with Byetta. Over eating will cause severe and debilitating nausea. Metformin nearly destroyed my liver and kidneys. I am one of the 1 out of 4 who cannot take Metformin. My liver and kidney functions are now returning to normal so make sure it is a doctor who checks these functions regularly – about every three months. Also my daughter now takes Byetta and insulin. She is doing wonderfully on both of these. She was formerly on Metformin and it made her sleep about 18 hours a day – she is one of the 1 in four who cannot tolerate it. My sister-in-law cannot do the Byetta – the nausea was so severe she lost 30 lbs in 28 days and landed in the hospital. BUT – it does work for some – just be careful to watch for side effects. And make sure to tell them not to overeat at a meal – indigestion and nausea results. Good luck.