- Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose or blood sugar levels are too high or low.
- Insulin helps keep your sugar levels from getting too high or too low.
- Type 2 diabetes is caused by genetic and environmental factors. It can be hard to set genetic and environmental
Main types of Diabetes:
- Type 1
- Type 2
- Prediabetes
- Gestational Diabetes
Summary:
I learned that if you have diabetes that your body doesn't make enough insulin, it can't use the insulin that it produces or a combination of both. Since the cells can't take the glucose, it builds up blood in your body.
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What is the difference between type 1 and type 2?
ReplyDeleteType 1 diabetes are when the body does not produce insulin at all, and in type 2 diabetes the body doesn't respond to insulin as well as it should, which eventually the insulin starts not to produce in the body at all. Which can cause numbness and tingling in hands and fingers.
DeleteCan you die from diabetes?
ReplyDeleteYes you can die from diabetes. Two out of three people with diabetes die from cardiovascular, heart attack or stroke. Diabetes can also be controlled by medications.
DeleteWhat is gestational diabetes?
ReplyDeleteYou have gestational diabetes when your pregnant. This means your sugar levels are high and have always been high. You can have this and still also have an healthy pregnancy you just have to manage your sugar intake.
Deletewhat is prediabetes ?
ReplyDeletePrediabetes is when your blood sugar is high but not high enough to have Type 2 diabetes.
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