It is a chronic life long condition that affect your body ability to use the energy found in food (WebMD Type of Diabetes mellitus, paragraph 1). Many physicians stressed to patient to not leave it untreated because it can have serious life threating outcome.
It is said that the longer-term damage is dysfunction and organ failure associated with chronic hyperglycemia especially in the eyes, kidneys, nerves and also heart and blood vessel (American Diabetes Association, paragraph.1).
The two most common form of this disease are Type 1 and 2 diabetes, even thought there are other kinds of diabetes as well (Diabetes Research Institute Foundation page 8). Both of type share the problem of high level of sugar in the blood; there inability to control blood sugar is what cause the symptoms and complication of both type diabetes (Chris Iliades, MD, page 1).
Type 1 diabetes is where the …show more content…
Sometime the doctor will suspect type 2 diabetes based on your symptoms and risk factors like obesity and family history.
Reflection
After everything I just read I found a deeper understanding of what a person goes through being a type 1 or 2 diabetic. They are both very similar but different at the sometime. One of them has insulin and the other one doesn’t but they both don’t process it the right way.
I also saw what a challenge it is on a daily basic for someone with diabetes. They face a challenge just to eat. They have to change their ways in order for them to keep their health in places.
They also have to keep a close watch on the things they eat and count their carbs as they eat so that way they are able to take care of themselves. Sometime we don’t realize how easy thing are. Careful meal planning is a very important role and daily exercise. Patients with type 1 and 2 can live a long and actives
It is said that the longer-term damage is dysfunction and organ failure associated with chronic hyperglycemia especially in the eyes, kidneys, nerves and also heart and blood vessel (American Diabetes Association, paragraph.1).
The two most common form of this disease are Type 1 and 2 diabetes, even thought there are other kinds of diabetes as well (Diabetes Research Institute Foundation page 8). Both of type share the problem of high level of sugar in the blood; there inability to control blood sugar is what cause the symptoms and complication of both type diabetes (Chris Iliades, MD, page 1).
Type 1 diabetes is where the …show more content…
Sometime the doctor will suspect type 2 diabetes based on your symptoms and risk factors like obesity and family history.
Reflection
After everything I just read I found a deeper understanding of what a person goes through being a type 1 or 2 diabetic. They are both very similar but different at the sometime. One of them has insulin and the other one doesn’t but they both don’t process it the right way.
I also saw what a challenge it is on a daily basic for someone with diabetes. They face a challenge just to eat. They have to change their ways in order for them to keep their health in places.
They also have to keep a close watch on the things they eat and count their carbs as they eat so that way they are able to take care of themselves. Sometime we don’t realize how easy thing are. Careful meal planning is a very important role and daily exercise. Patients with type 1 and 2 can live a long and actives