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Diabetes is a Syndrome of disordered metabolism, usually due to a combination of hereditary and environmental causes, resulting in abnormally high blood sugar also know as hyperglycemia.

What is Diabetes?

Blood test is the only way to tell.

Blood test can be used for type I and type II.

Symptoms Different blood test Fasting plasma

glucose test for pregnant women.

Diagnosing diabetes

Type I, type II diabetes, and gestational diabetes.

All three types of diabetes are a result of too much sugar or glucose in the blood.

There are three main types of Diabetes…

Type I diabetes is also called an insulin dependent diabetes.

People with type I diabetes pancreas produce very little insulin or none at all.

Type I Diabetes

With these two types of diabetes the pancreas produces insulin, but not enough or the cells in the body are resistant to the insulin that is being produced by the body.

Type II Diabetes & Gestational Diabetes

18 million Americans have diabetes. 900,000 to 1.8 million have type I diabetes. 16 to 17 million have type II diabetes. 135,000 pregnant women develop

gestational diabetes. Not to mention people living with diabetes

and do not even know it.

Living everyday life with diabetes is related to early prevention and health education

Is not contagious which means you can not give it to anyone, nor can it be caught.

More common in certain racial groups such as Caucasians.

Viruses like the mumps or German measles' may cause type I diabetes.

Different types of foods such as cow’s milk when fed early in life to 3 or 4 month olds can cause diabetes.

Type I Diabetes…Facts

Usually was first found in children, teenagers, or young adults.

It was once called juvenile diabetes.

Type I Diabetes

Scientist linked type I diabetes to genetics.

Parents with diabetes that have children are more likely to develop diabetes then someone without a family history of diabetes.

Type I Diabetes

Most common form of diabetes. Also related to genetics. Inheritance of certain genes, obesity, age,

and lifestyles. race/ethnicity- African Americans,

Hispanic/Latino Americans, American Indians, and some Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders are at particularly high risk for type 2 diabetes and its complications.

Type II Diabetes…Facts

Most important triggers of diabetes is obesity.

Too much body fat makes it hard for the body to accommodate insulin resistance.

Body fat promotes insulin resistance.

Type II Diabetes

Cardiovascular disease. Retinopathy which is and eye disease. Nephropathy disease of the nerves.

Several Complications related to type II diabetes

Exact cause is unknown.

Hormones are produced in larger amounts in pregnant women then women who are not pregnant.

Gestational Diabetes

Requires consistent and persistent management from the person with diabetes.

Maintaining there skin. Controlling there sugar. Taking care of feet.

Maintaining Diabetes

Change unhealthy eating habits.

Injection of insulin. Monitoring blood

glucose levels. Exercise

Management of Type I diabetes

Similar to type I diabetes.

No insulin shots unless sick or in need of more insulin.

Oral medications. Change to low-fat

diet. Loosing weight. Exercise.

Management of type II Diabetes

Modifying diets to healthier more suitable diet.

Sometimes insulin given if therapeutic range not met.

Management of Gestational Diabetes.

Educating yourself on how to best manage the disease is important to avoiding or prolonging adverse affects on the

body as a result of uncontrolled diabetes.

Knowledge of Disease

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