It protects you from illness. Certain Cells in your [our] body from your immune system and works to fight against germs” (Metenburg, 2009). In our body we have two different cells in our body, T-Cells and B-Cells. These two cells work together and fight all of our bacteria and restores our immune system. Suppose one day a human body decide not to function correctly, then the human cells will mix up and fight with the healthy cells, which then creates a disease in the human body (Metenburg, 2009, p. 8). Now the question is since you were first diagnoses, you probably thought of tons of question about this chronic disease diabetes? The first question is what is diabetes? What kind of risk factor are there?
Diabetes is a serious life long illness caused by high level of glucose in the blood. This condition means a human body cannot produce insulin from the pancreas, a human organ that lies next to the stomach. Insulin is a hormone that allows the body use glucose for energy. The body produces glucose from the food that we eat (Anderson, p. 2). There are three differ type of diabetes. Type I Diabetes, Type II Diabetes and Gestational …show more content…
People with type I diabetes, they make little or no insulin. Type I Diabetes usually occurs in children and young adults (Pape, 2009, p. 10). Some of the commons symptoms you will see in a type I diabetes are frequent urinations, extreme thirst, increased hunger, weight loss or gain, mood changes, blurred vision, bedwetting in children who previously didn’t wet the bed during the night, fatigue and weakness, numbness or tingling on your fingers and or feet, in males-difficulty achieving and maintaining an erection, and in females a vaginal yeast infection. Type I diabetes mostly develop in family history of diabetes, history of generational diabetes, at what age they are, and race/ethnicity. People with type I diabetes, should remember there will be a complication in their life if they don’t take care of themselves. Having a type I diabetes can affect some major body organs in a human body, which can lead to serious complication. Some major complication or life threatening, including: (1) Heart and blood vessel disease: diabetes can have a higher risk of cardiovascular problems such as, chest pain, heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure and narrowing of the arteries. (2) Nerve damage: mostly excess sugar can injure tiny blood vessel, especially in a humans legs. This can cause tingling, numbness, burning or pain that begins at the top of a human’s toe or fingers. This pain can go