Sunday, February 28, 2010

Insulin injection can treat the type 2 diabetes mellitus

insulin injection can treat the type 2 diabetes mellitus?

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Yes! Having diabetes is adjusting to a whole new lifestyle. http://www.diabetes.org/
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If you mean that "Is Insulin Injection will treat type 2 Diabetes Mellitus" As a diabetic, I can say is that a pill called Metformin aka Glucophage is effective, but Insulin may be also used. Talk to your doctor/diabetes educator for more info. Right now I take both Insulin and Metformin.
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Yes, but why would you want to inject yourself if you didn't have to? ----------------------------
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Yes. If you are a diabetic and not on insulin don't switch to insulin without seeing an endocrinologist first. There are important things you need to know before you use insulin. I am an insulin dependent diabetic since 1998.
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yup. and riverkid - insulin is a lot more controlled than tablets, and if you have been diabetic for 16 years, surely you know that it doesn't hurt one bit!!! well it doesn't hurt me anyway!!! If i were recommending one or the other to someone, id say definitely go for the injections - it takes a while to get used to, but it keeps you so much more healthy in the long term! and like i said, it doesn't hurt at all, i promise!
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Yes insulin can be used to treat type two diabetes that is uncontrolled with diet modification and oral medications like glucophage or januvia. It is the only medication used for type one because a person with type one diabetes cannot produce insulin whereas a person with type 2 is resistant to the insulin that is produced. Be sure to monitor your blood sugar as your doctor has recommened to decrease your chances of serious complications (like neuropathy, blindness, and organ damage) and take your medications as prescribed.
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Type 2 diabetes starts out treated with pills bc your inslet cells are still producing insulin but not enough. Eventually your inslet cells stop producing insulin and you are treated with insulin but are still a type 2 diabetes. Type 1 or type 2, there is no difference. Diabetes is diabetes and the types are just one way for doctors to define the diabetes.
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Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus accounts for 10 to 15% of all cases of DM and is clinically characterized by hyperglicemia and a propensity to DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis) Its control requires chronic insulin treatment. There are associated risks for retinopathy,nephropathy,neuropathy,and atherosclerotic coronary and peripheral vascular disease in most Western populations.
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my father does it (im trype one hes type 2), hes said this has given him the best control of his life! he feels sooooo much better since he went on insulin (which is safer anyway because it doesnt affect your liver) and dosages can be customized to your life!

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The origin of the names diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus

the origin of the names diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus?
plzz helpp!!
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ancient greek, diabetes mellitus means something like, "one who strides with honey" because of the sugar expelled in urine. not sure about insipidus though, sorry.
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I don't know exactly of the origin, you check on wikipedia or something, but I know the difference between the two diabetes. Diabetes Mellitus means something sweet, not enough insulin, and elevated glucose levels. This is what people normally talk about, Diabetes 1 and 2. On the other hand, diabetes insipidus is when you're lacking water, the water is leaving your body very very quickly. A person usually needs to pee at a lot, and is very thirsty because the body is trying to stay hydrated. I don't know if I helped much, but I don't know much about the origins besides "mellitus" meaning something sweet, honey basically.

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Saturday, February 20, 2010

What would happen to the water potential of the blood in a person with diabetes

What would happen to the water potential of the blood in a person with diabetes ?
Cause i know the diaseas Diabetes mellitus is a disease where the insulin produced is not used properly but what would happen to the water potential ? confused =='
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Diabetes mellitus will tend to lower the water potential of blood, because the concentration of solutes, including glucose, increases in diabetics. Diabetics thus tend to micturate (urinate) heavily, losing even more water, in a positive feedback cycle that can only be remedied through excessive ingestion of fluids (i.e., continuous hydration).

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Why people with diabetes mellitus has glycosuria

why people with diabetes mellitus has glycosuria?

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kidney's threshold for glucose is broken

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Friday, February 12, 2010

What is diabetes mellitus

What is diabetes mellitus?

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Diabetes mellitus is impaired insulin secretion and variable degrees of peripheral insulin resistance leading to hyperglycemia. Early symptoms are related to hyperglycemia and include polydipsia, polyphagia, and polyuria. Later complications include vascular disease, peripheral neuropathy, and predisposition to infection. Diagnosis is by measuring plasma glucose. Treatment is diet, exercise, and drugs that reduce glucose levels, including insulin and oral antihyperglycemic drugs. Prognosis varies with degree of glucose control. ABCs for good Diabetes Care. (1) Get your Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) test done at least twice a year. (Target: Below 7). (2) Albuminuria. Get your urine micro-albumin test done atleast twice a year. (Target: Below 30). (3) Aspirin Check with your doctor if you need to take aspirin daily. (4)Blood pressure. Get your blood pressure checked every visit. (Target: Below 130/80 mm Hg) (5)Cholesterol Get your LDL (bad cholesterol) levels checked at least once a year. (Target: Below 100 mg/dL). Triglycerides. (Target: Less than 150 mg/dL) Serum Cholesterol (Target: Less than 200 mg/dL) HDL (good cholesterol) (Target: More than 50 mg/dL) (6)Diabetes Education. Know about diabetes & get updated regularly. (7)Eye exam. Get your eyes examined regularly, get checked at least once a year. (8)Teeth. Get your teeth examined by a Dentist and get tartar (plaque) removed once in a year. (9)Foot care. Check your feet daily . Request your doctor to check them every visit. Get an extensive foot examination done once in a year. (10)Glucose (Sugar) test. Control your blood glucose & do self-monitoring as & when required. (Target: Fasting blood sugar 60-100 mg/dL; Postprandial blood sugar 2 hours after food-Less than 140 mg/dL) (11)Health life style. Exercise regularly & stay healthy. (12)Identify special medical needs. Voice your health concerns to your doctor . Follow your doctorâ€™s advice. Please see the web pages for more details on Diabetes Mellitus.
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Its TYPE 1 diabetes which requires you to inject insulin and test your blood glucose levels in order to stay well. If not kept under control it can cause lots of other medical difficulties.
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diabetes = urinate alot mellitus = sugar The pancrease makes insulin. Insulin is needed in the blood to let sugar into cells. Think of it like a key that lets the sugar in. If the sugar can't get into the cells, it builds up in the blood and this causes a water shift in the body from inside the cells into the blood. When there is too much water in the blood circulation, the kidneys make you pee it out. Diabetics are hungry and thirsty all the time if they don't keep their blood sugar under control. When all the sugar is in the blood and it can't get into the cells because there is no insulin or the insulin isn't working, it's like the person is starving in the midst of plenty. DM Type I usually occurs in childhood, the pancrease doesn't work and the patient is dependent on an outside source of insulin DM Type II usually occurs later in life, the cells in the body become resistant to insulin because of a lifetime of high sugar diets and no exercise. Alot of time DM-II is controlled with drugs like Glucophage and is not outside insulin dependent
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It's when your body can't remove sugar out of your blood, a process that your organs and other tissues need for energy and survival. Instead the sugar is eliminated in urine, which makes your pee sweet. Uncontrolled diabetes starves your body and ultimately kills you.

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Monday, February 8, 2010

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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Please tell me if I can reach the cure to diabetes mellitus - female 57 y old

please tell me if I can reach the cure to diabetes mellitus - female 57 y old?

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In the shorter term it may be possible to have a transplant of the part of the pancreas that produces insulin. In the more distant future the answer to diabetes and all the other autoimmune diseases (lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, cystic fibrosis and others) lies in gene therapy. Unfortunately this is unlikely to help until you are old and grey.
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Are you asking if a cure will be found in your lifetime? It's impossible to know. There are so many things being worked on, but to be honest I'm not that hopeful for a cure. In the meantime lots of great things are being created to help us manage it, and it doesn't have to be a big deal any more if we're armed with knowledge and tools. For about 40 or 50 years now they've been telling everyone that the cure will be found in less than 5 years. Hmmm. Still waiting!
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The best thing to do to prevent the progress of the disease is to bring your weight to the normal BMI, have a regular exercise and a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables. I dont think diabetes mellitus can be cured.
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check out this research group and join us if you can ..we are looking for cures for all kinds of disease...this project also has a message board you can use .... http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
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A cure for Diabetes has not been found yet. However, it can be controlled, managed and a dibetic person can like a healthy life just like a non diabetic one, one has to impose certian restriction on oneself. Ways to control diabetes are: maintaining blood glucose levels, maintaining blood fat levels maintaining weight. Blood glucose levels can be maintained by following a diet designed by your doctor, exercising, and eating at regular intervals. Some of the most common treatment options are: oral medicines (Diabetes pills), dietary changes, exercise, insulin and islet Cell Transplantation. The side effects of the oral medicines include: nausea, diarrhea, metallic taste in mouth, low blood glucose, skin rash or itching, and weight gain. Long use of oral medicines may cause liver failure, respiratory infection, headaches, and pain in different part of the bodies For more diabetes related issues visit http://www.reddiabetes.com
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Currently there is no cure for Diabetes, either type!! There is only control. I highly doubt that either of us will see a cure to this disease in our lifetimes. Giant strides have been made in the last 10 years on the treatment and now we can actually control this nasty disease with testing, food plans, meds, and exercises. My mother did not have a personal glucometer to test her glucose levels!! For several years she followed the American Diabetes Assn's food exchange plan and took tablets. She had absolutely no clue what her glucose levels were each day. I don't think she ever even knew to ask for the results of blood work at the lab to know her HbA1c! Then she was switched to taking a single small injection of natural insulin each morning. I know that that will not control glucose numbers. It did kill her!! It gave her heart condition and she died of heart failure. Now we have better medicines, better ways of daily testing, and better attitude toward control of this disease. Some day there will be a cure, but I don't expect it to be in the next 40 or 50 years!! I do hope I am wrong!
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Yes! You can cure your diabetes. These pranayam exercises will help control the diabetes and the side effects.Build up the timing gradually.If you feel tired or dizzy, stop and resume later.The benefits will be noticed in weeks as the sugar level is checked daily.Over the long tern the diabetes will be in full control and the medicine can be reduced in consultation with the doctor. Anulom Vilom â€“ Close your right nostril with thumb and deep breath-in through left nostril then â€“ close left nostril with two fingers and breath-out through right nostril then -keeping the left nostril closed deep breath-in through right nostril then - close your right nostril with thumb and breath-out through left nostril. This is one cycle of anulom vilom. Repeat this cycle for 20 to 30 minutes twice a day(maximum 60 minutes in one day). You can do this before breakfast/lunch/dinner or before bedtime or in bed.Remember to take deep long breaths into the lungs.You can do this while sitting on floor or chair or lying in bed. Kapalbhati -(Do it before eating) Push air forcefully out through the nose about once per second. Stomach will itself go in(contract in). The breathing in(through the nose) will happen automatically. Establish a rhythm and do for 20 to 30 minutes twice a day.(Max 60 min/day) Not for pregnant women. Seriously ill people do it gently. Also everyday press the centre point of the palm of your hand 40 times with the thumb and press the tips of all fingers 40 times each. Please continue the pranayam once a day after the diabetes is in control.

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Monday, February 1, 2010

Does a high sugar diet really lead to diabetes

Does a high sugar diet really lead to diabetes?
Does eating a lot of sugar make your body resistant to its own insulin? I would think that based on the "use it or lose it" motto that you would want to eat a lot of sugar to avoid diabetes. I'm referring to diabetes mellitus. I'm thinking that if you cut sugar out of your diet then your islets of langerhan will begin to atrophy due to lack of use which would result in diabetes. So eating more sugar would be a better way to avoid diabetes. Am I right?
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Ummm... lol... NO Read the book SUGARBUSTERS When you think about "sugar" do not just think about the crystalized white stuff. "Sugar" is in bread, fruits, vegetables, just about everything. We as a society eat enough sugar naturally that we don't need all of the sweets and candies. There's a cool graph in the book that shows that before the widespread use of "refined sugars", diabetes was found in less than 1% of our society. Sugar (also in carbohydrates) makes people fat and sickly. It stimulates the pancreas into creating insulin. Read up.
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No. Obviously, you need to intake SOMETHING that can be reduced to pyruvate. Not enough sugar is very bad and kills you (ATP and NADH are important for staying alive). On the other hand, an increase in Glucose intake does not proportionally increase either glucose metabolism or Beta Cell production in the pancreas. If your glucose intake exceeds your pancreas's ability to produce insulin, you become hyperglycemic. If you make a bunch of insulin to counteract this, your cells reduce production of GLUT4 receptors to use insulin, making you more hypoglycemic. Intaking glucose beyond what you can use+what you can make into fat makes you increasingly more hyperglycemic, not less.
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A high sugar diet definitely leads to diabetes mellitus type II. DM Type I results from a lack of insulin production since the Beta cells are basically killed off. This used to be referred to as juvenile diabetes. Insulin is a hormone that shoves sugar into most body cells. A high sugar spike in blood leads to high insulin spikes in blood. Hormones and their cell membrane receptors can go through up-regulation or down-regulation. Down-regulation makes the receptor less sensitive to the effects of the hormone so you need more hormone to get the same result. More hormone means more down-regulation, more down regulation means you need more hormone which leads to more down-regulation. It becomes a continuous cycle. Before full DM Type II is reached, people get Metabolic Syndrome (Syndrome X). Same idea happens when someone takes recreational drugs. Eventually the same dose doesn't work anymore cause of down-regulation and you need more alcohol, heroine, cocaine or whatever to get the same result. At the same time, the beta cells in the islets of langerhans can be overburdened or burnt out for having to make too much insulin. Eating a low sugar diet would not cause them to atrophy since you cannot completely avoid carbohydrates. Sugar just spikes insulin levels where complex carbs make levels rise and fall.

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