Diabetes : A Body 's Immune System

Type 1 is characterized by the body’s inability to produce insulin. It is caused by autoimmune-mediated destruction of pancreatic beta cells, which are responsible for producing insulin. There appears to be a hereditary link in people with Type 1 diabetes. Other factors have been known to cause Type 1 diabetes such as viral infections, toxins, and other environmental factors. Type 1 diabetes is the rare form, affecting about 10% of the diabetes population. Its onset usually occurs in people less than the age of 20.

Diabetes is a metabolic disease where an individual’s blood glucose level is higher than normal standards. Diabetes is a long term condition that causes not only primary issues related to the disease but secondary problems as well. Diabetes also known and referred to by healthcare professionals as diabetes mellitus, which is a phrase used to describe a group of metabolic diseases in which a person’s body does not produce insulin at all, or a person’s body does not use insulin properly, which is called insulin resistance. Type I Diabetes also known as juvenile diabetes is when the body does not produce insulin, approximately 10% of all diabetes cases are type I. Type 2 diabetes is when the body does not use insulin properly and approximately 90% of all documented cases worldwide is of this type. (American Diabetes Association, 2014) All types of diabetes can be treated, type I has no known cure however there have been some cases where

Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects how your body turns food into energy (sugar). Type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, and the statistics continue to grow with no change in site, and is a major cause of cardiovascular disease.

Diabetes is a life long medical condition that is due to the body not producing enough insulin to control the sugars that are in the body.

Type 2 diabetes most often occurs after the age of 45, but in recent years it is starting to occur before this age in children and teenagers (Dickinson 2016).

First let’s establish what diabetes is. Diabetes is a disease that affects how the body uses Glucose, the main type of sugar in the blood. The body takes in and breaks down foods into glucose and others sugars that are needed to fuel the body functions. The Glucose level in the blood rises after a meal and triggers the Pancreas to make the hormone Insulin and release it into the bloodstream. But when it comes to people with diabetes, the body can’t make or respond to insulin properly.

Do you know what it feels like to be a diabetic? If not you will learn because i will be telling you all about including the causes symptoms and what it is in general.Diabetes is when a hormone called insulin in the pancreas either completely stops working or barely works and you need to do it manually either by needles or something called a pump.Diabetes can affect your life but it is not a bad thing,diabetes causes you to manually put insulin in,the feelings or symptoms of diabetes can be different for different people,a lot of people play sports with diabetes.

The disease type one diabetes happens when the human immune system destroys the beta cells that are in our pancreas. The beta cells are responsible for making the insulin in our pancreas. Insulin is a hormone in our body that works like a key does in a door. Insulin unlocks our cells to let sugar into our cells from our blood stream. Our body then can utilize the sugar for energy. People that have the disease type one diabetes have very little insulin because their beta cells in their pancreas have been destroyed. People that have the disease type one diabetes have high levels of sugar in their blood because the sugar cannot get into their cells.

According to the National Diabetes Report of 2014, there are 29.1 million of the United States has Diabetes. Not to mention, 8.1 million of those people with diabetes don’t even know that they have it! Diabetes is a condition where your body doesn’t produce enough insulin, which helps aid in turning sugar, or glucose, from food into energy. Because of the lack of insulin, the sugar builds up in the blood and can cause various health issues. Someone can get or have one of many form of the disease. The most common being Type I and II diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes often appears from the age of 25 but year by year more children are becoming diagnosed. Out of all the three types of diabetes, Diabetes type 2 accounts for 85%-95% of them. There is no cure for diabetes type 2 but a healthy diet and regular exercise

The combination of immune system deficits and diabetes in the elderly can lead to serious and life threatening complications of infection.

Everyone is affected by diabetes whether they are diagnosed with the disease or know a loved one with the disease. People go undiagnosed everyday and it affects all ages. Diabetes metabolic disease which the body has an inability to produce any or enough insulin causing elevated levels of glucose in the blood. There are two types of diabetes usually appears in childhood or adolescence, the bodies immune system attacks and destroys cells that produce insulin and without insulin blood sugar levels can not be controlled. Type 2 diabetes evolves and can sometimes be reversed with changes in the diet and physical activity. Knowing how diabetes works in your body, the risk factors, and the signs and symptoms to look for can

Diabetes, often referred to by doctors as diabetes mellitus, describes a group of metabolic diseases in which the person has high blood glucose (blood sugar)1 . In 2011 The American Diabetes Association repoted a 25.8 million people in America living with diabetes 2. Diabetes is a illness that can be caused by the body not being able to produce enough insulin and or cells in the body not responding adequately to the insulin provided. Insulin which is produced by the pancrease, regulates the amount of glucose (which provieds energy to all cells) in the blood.

What was once thought to be found only among adults has become one of the most common chronic diseases among children in the United States. Ordinarily, when diabetes strikes during childhood it is assumed to be type 1. The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study began in 2000 and has provided the most comprehensive estimates of the prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes among youth less than 20 years of age in the US (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that annually, an estimated 18,436 youth are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and 5,089 youth are diagnosed with type 2 among youth. In the last two decades, type 2 diabetes, has been reported among U.S. children and adolescents with increasing frequency. Disease researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the prediction that one in three children born in the United States in 2000 will likely develop type 2 diabetes sometime in their lifetime unless they get more exercise and improve their diets, particularly for Latino children (CDC, 2014). Without changes in diet and exercise, their odds of developing diabetes as they grow older was about 50-50.

     Diabetes is a chronic condition in which the body produces too little insulin (Type One Diabetes) or can’t use available insulin efficiently ( Type Two Diabetes). Insulin is a hormone vital to helping the body use digested food for growth and energy.