Patient Profile: Shih Tzu Dog

Other common features include self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, excessive exercising, distorted body image, and morbid preoccupation with energy intake. Physical findings include dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, hypothermia, poor peripheral circulation and even circulatory failure, cardiac arrythmias, hepatic steatosis, and ovarian and uterine regression (Bryant-Waugh and Lask, 1995).

Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, is a chronic illness this means that it has no cure and the symptoms persist over a long period of time. This illness is a result of an imbalance of hormones, insulin, produced in the pancreas. Insulin plays an important role in how the body uses food. Insulin enables the cells in the bloodstream to absorb and use glucose for fuel. If the pancreas produces too little or no insulin or if the insulin doesn’t work properly the person may become diabetic. Therefore, diabetics are not able to properly convert food into fuels needed by the body to function, which can seriously lead to physical consequences.

M. H. states that she is generally in good overall health. No cardiac, respiratory, endocrine, vascular, musculoskeletal, urinary, hematologic, neurologic, genitourinary, or gastrointestinal problems.

General Health State (present weight – gain or loss, reason for gain or loss, amount of time for gain or loss; fatigue, malaise, weakness, sweats, night sweats, chills ): She currently weighs 110lbs. No weight loss. She is well developed and nourished. No distress. States she has always been healthy, other than occasional constipation.

She probably is malnourished and has health complications because of it like low blood pressure and drastic weight loss.

Mrs. Jameson was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes one year ago, and has been on treatment since then. She manages her own medication, and has a case manager who regularly checks up on her to ensure that her medications are up to date, as well as her physical exercise regime. However, the admission into the emergency room a week ago is an indication that she has not taken enough water and observing her diet, which has resulted in the observed symptoms. Her diagnosis is: Hypernatremia related to excessive loss of water and elevated sodium

These types are Insipidus and Mellitus, Insipidus is the water diabetes and Mellitus is the sugar type. So Mellitus is the type that has a insulin issue. The insulin is supposed to work because this is what triggers the muscles and other tissues to do what they're supposed to do. But since the insulin does not get produced. We give it to the dog. Back to Mellitus, Since there is no insulin the protein the dog eats doesn’t turn to glucose. Glucose is the stuff that gives you energy to run and do other activities. So basically, the dog won’t have energy which is not a great thing. But Mellitus is also split in two, those types are type 1 and type 2. Type 1 is pretty dangerous if not treated and it is when the body is not producing any too little insulin. This means the beta cells (the cells that are affected by the insulin) are either destroyed or damaged. This is the case where the dog will lose a lot of energy because there is no insulin making protein into glucose. This is why it is deadly, but it is treated with insulin shots. Then there is type 2, this type is when it tries to reject the insulin but fails most of the time on stopping the insulin. Some insulin is blocked so we use the shots to put insulin that is missing in their body. This is not deadly it’s just that you need or should give them shots, but otherwise they are fine. Then we had Insipidus, this is the water type of diabetes. So what happens is like I said before the insulin is produced but it doesn’t trigger the livers and kidneys to take in the water. This means that when they drink it goes right through them. It is not very bad and it a good life chance. But the one thing they need 24/7 is water. There is two different effects as you can say to Insipidus. One is CDI (central diabetes insipidus). This is when the hypothalamus in the brain does not register the water coming in. So the kidneys and livers don’t take action so the water just passes

C. Adult-onset diabetes is a little different. Treatment to manage Type 2 diabetes consists of taking diabetic medicines and sometimes injections. Making wise food choices, being physically active are very important. Also controlling blood pressure and cholesterol.

Diabetes occurs when there is poor production and functioning of insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas. The condition occurs most commonly in dogs at 8 or 9 years old, is hereditary, and more common in females. Signs of diabetes in dogs that you may see include: irritability, fatigue, recurring infections, frequent thirst, increased urination, weight loss, blurred vision, and slow-healing cuts or bruises.

The signs of diabetes differ from the symptoms because signs are indicators of a problem, while symptoms can only be describing by what a person feels. I want to focus on type 1 and type 2 diabetes because it has been very common on my father’s side of the family. According to the International Diabetes Federation, some warning signs for type 1 & 2 diabetes are frequent urination, weight loss, lack of energy, and excessive thirst. But, there are also more signs that consist of blurred vision, numbness, and increased of hunger. At the same time, these signs can be absent or show just a little in some people.

A 48-year-old woman arrives to hospital displaying signs of headache, tiredness, thirst, dizziness, lack of concentration and numbness in the hands and feet. The lab results show that her blood sugar readings 425 mg/dL are higher than natural. She admits to a few dietary indiscretions, such as having multiple servings of dessert when going out with family. She lives in Fort Lauderdale. She is being medically reviewed at Broward Health Medical Center.

Diabetes has many symptoms. The types of diabetes consist of: Type 1, 2, and gestational diabetes. There are many symptoms to diabetes such as: Thirst, frequent urination, uncontrollable hunger, unintended weight loss, unintended weight gain, irritable or changing mood swings, fatigue & weakness, and blurred vision. There are other symptoms, but these are the most common.

Twenty-nine point one million people in the United States have diabetes, a number that increased by 12.8% in just two years, between 2010 and 2012; it affects 9.3% of the population, a number that is suspected to reach 33% by 2050. Of these twenty-nine point one million cases, Diabetes Mellitus accounts for 90-95%. This disease is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, but may be higher due to underreporting. There is an increased incidence in Hispanics, 12.8%, versus Caucasians’ 7.6%. Such a Hispanic, an 83-year-old female, presented with uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus to the Emergency department several days ago. Her vitals were normal, her blood glucose at 345, was covered. Her previous

The first diagnose of type 2 diabetes is the patient BMI. The patient BM is over 30 which indicates they are obese and could be at risk for diabetes. Overeating pressures the membranous network inside of cells called endoplasmic reticulum (ER). When the ER has more nutrients to process than it can handle, it sends out an alarm signal telling the cell to reduce down the insulin receptors on the cell surface. This interprets to insulin resistance and to insistently high concentrations of the sugar glucose in the blood. Which is one of the certain signs of diabetes. The second and third diagnose of diabetes is frequent urination and thirst. The reason why the patient urinates and become thirsty is because glucose leaks into your urine, which pulls

The most common symptoms of diabetes mellitus are chronic elevated blood glucose level. Glycosuria is a condition in which the kidneys excrete increased glucose as they are unable to reabsorb the excess amount. This leads to fluid and electrolyte excretion which leads to electrolyte imbalance and dehydration. Loss of glucose leads to increase in the use of fats and protein for the energy, which leads to accumulation of ketone bodies in the blood which leads to ketoacidosis (could be fatal).