Health Tips: Getting to Know the Type 1 Diabetes

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What is type1 diabetes?

Type-1 diabetes is a ‘chronic (lifelong) disease’ that will take place when pancreas will no longer produce enough insulin to control properly blood sugar levels.

Type-1 diabetes is also known as ‘Insulin – dependent diabetes and ‘Juvenile onset diabetes.

Risk factors, Causes and incidence

Type-1 diabetes can occur at any age, but it is most often diagnosed in ‘children, adolescents, or young adults’.

Insulin is a hormone, it is produced by special cells, called ‘beta cells’ in the pancreas, located in the area of an organ behind your stomach. Insulin is necessary to move blood sugar or ‘glucose’ into cells, stored and later use for energy. These cells produce little or no insulin in the stage of type-1 diabetes.

Insufficient insulin ‘glucose’ builds up in the bloodstream instead of going into the cells and the glucose cannot be used for energy needed for your body. This leads to the symptoms of type-1 diabetes.

From 5-10-years, the insulin producing beta cells of the pancreas are destroyed completely and the body can no longer produce insulin.

The exact cause is unknown. But it is presumed that there is viral or environmental that trigger in genetically susceptible people causes an immune reaction.

The white blood cells of the body can be mistakenly attack the insulin producing pancreatic beta cells.

Symptoms

Several people will have no symptoms before they get into check up and being diagnosed with diabetes. Other may have noticed these symptoms as the first signs of type-1 diabetes or when blood sugar is noticeably high:

Fatigue or feeling tired, being very thirsty, feeling hungry, urinating more often, having blurry eyesight, losing weight, losing the feeling or feeling tingling in your feet.

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