Diabetes, What's That?

By syukhri on Thursday, February 3, 2005
Filled Under: articles, on-diabetes

In Egypt in 1552 BC has been known for the presence of a disease with symptoms of frequent urination and the amount of the banya called 'Polyuria' and weight loss fast without pain. Later in the year 400 BC, Indian writer Sushrutha to name the disease "honey urine disease" (Honey Urine Disease).

Aretaeus, in the year 200 BC was the first person who gave the name Diabetes means "flowing continue" and Mellitus which means "honey". Diabetes is called karen aselalu drink in large quantities (polydipsia), which then flows continue to be called Mellitus urine.di because the patient's urine containing glucose (glucose / sugar).

Diabetes Mellitus is basically caused by the hormone insulin that people with insufficient or ineffective, so can not work normally. In fact, insulin has a major role in the manage blood glucose levels, which is about 6 - = 120 mg / dl when fasting, and below 140 mg / dl at two hours after eating (in normal people).

Since discovered insulin in 1921 by Banting and Best in Canada, rates of death and miscarriage mothers who become pregnant less. Since the discovery handling far more effective diabetes diabnding before. Today, with intensive care, almost all diabetes patients can return to normal life and productive.

Usually your body convert sugar and starches into glucose (simple sugar) that functions as a fuel. When diabetes develops, the amount of glucose in the body is very high. Because insulin (a substance that controls glucose levels) there were not adequate.

Therefore Diabetes sufferers can not produce insulin properly. That is why they must get insulin injections or other medications by mouth to help the body out even more insulin.

Insulin Hormones
Allows insulin to process sugar or glucose, a substance derived from the foods we eat and beverages we drink. If you have a normal pancreas / or your insulin production is sufficient then your blood sugar will be processed properly, it means you have free of diabetes.

People who suffer from diabetes
In the pancreas, or damage from the pancreas does not work perfectly, so that the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to neutralize the blood sugar.

Characteristics of Diabetes Mellitus

By syukhri on Thursday, February 3, 2005
Filled Under: feature-diabetes

Diabetes is caused by insufficient insulin produced by the pancreas to neutralize the body's blood sugar

Insulin Hormones

Allows insulin to process sugar or glucose, a substance derived from the foods we eat and beverages we drink. If you have a normal pancreas / or your insulin production is sufficient then your blood sugar will be processed properly, then you have free of diabetes Diabetes Patients with damage to the pancreas or the pancreas does not work perfectly, so that the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to neutralize blood sugar

General characteristics of diabetes are:

  • Frequent urination
  • Quick hungry and thirsty
  • Quick tired and sleepy
  • Blurred vision
  • Itching in the skin and the vagina (female)
  • Difficult to heal wounds
  • Decreased orgasm impotence (men)
  • Infertility in men and women

Symptoms of Diabetes Mellitus

By syukhri on Thursday, February 3, 2005
Filled Under: symptoms of diabetes

To help you recognize the warning signs of diabetes has been established a standard American Institute of Preventive Medicine For Diabetes And Use Caution Abbreviations.

Note the emergence of symptoms following:

  • Sleepy
  • itching
  • History of diabetes in the family
  • Blurred view
  • Excessive weight
  • Numbness or pain in the lower limbs
  • Infections of skin, seemed to cut, especially itching in the legs
  • Skin infection

Other signs are:

  • Constantly urinating
  • Haus unusual
  • Strange hunger
  • Lose weight quickly
  • Quick tempered
  • Very weak and limp
  • Nausea and vomiting

Diabetes According to Sort

By syukhri on Thursday, February 3, 2005
Filled Under: hierarchy-diabetes

Risk of diabetes Mellitus

Disease Diabetes Mellitus is a disease mostly descendants, not a contagious disease. However it does not mean the disease would decrease to the child, although both parents suffering from Diabetes Mellitus.

When compared with parents of normal (non-diabetes), which clearly Diabetes Mellitus patients are more likely to have children who suffer from Diabetes Mellitus

According to the Order of the Suffering Diabetes Mellitus are:

  1. Both parents suffer from Diabetes Mellitus
  2. One of his siblings or the disease Diabetes Mellitus
  3. One member of his family (grandmother, uncle, aunt, cousin) of this disease.
  4. Ever had a baby weighing more than 4 kg
  5. At the time of health examination in blood glucose levels exceed between 140 to 200 mg / dl
  6. Liver disease (liver) are chronic or severe enough.
  7. Too long consuming drugs, injections or tablets corticosteroid groups (often used by people with asthma, skin diseases, and rheumatic) eg: Prednisone, Oradexon, Kenacort, Rheumacyl, Kortise, hydrocortisone)
  8. Exposed to certain viral infections: for example Morbili virus, a virus that attacks the salivary glands, as in gondengan disease, etc.. These viral infections occur more frequently in children.
  9. Drugs affected insect repellent.

Complications of Diabetes Mellitus

By syukhri on Thursday, February 3, 2005
Filled Under: complications, diabetes

Any complications that can occur in people with Diabetes Mellitus?

Diabetes Mellitus complications can arise in acute and chronic, which comes a few months or years after suffering from Diabetes Mellitus. Acute Complications of Diabetes Mellitus The two-term complications are the most common reaction Diabetic Hypoglycemia and coma.

Hypoglykemia

Hypoglycemia is a symptom caused by deficient glucose, with the signs:

  • Hunger
  • Trembling
  • Cold sweat
  • Dizziness

In hypoglycemia, the patient should be given bread or a banana. If not helped give water to drink sugary tea, one or two glasses. If this condition is not treated immediately, patients will not be passed out.

Because coma is caused by a lack of glucose in the blood (comma Hypoglycemia). Hypoglycemic coma patients must be taken to the hospital due to a 40% glucose injection and glucose infusion.

Diabetes Mellitus patients who experienced hypoglycemic reactions (still unconscious) is usually caused by anti-diabetes drugs are taken in high doses.

Diabetic coma

Contrary to the hypoglycemic, diabetic coma was caused by the blood glucose levels are too high are usually more than 600 mg / dl symptoms that often arise are:

  • Decreased appetite
  • Thirsty, drink a lot, peeing a lot
  • Then followed by nausea, vomiting, the patient desires to be fast and deep and smelled acetone.
  • Often accompanied by high fever, usually due to infection. Should be immediately taken to the doctor.

Physical Condition of People with Diabetes

By syukhri on Thursday, February 3, 2005
Filled Under: patient-diabetes

Hair condition People with Diabetes:

  • Patients with Diabetes Mellitus who have chronic and not well maintained, usually thinner hair.
  • If roots infected hair, hair loss easier
  • Hair loss can be recovered within 2 or 3 months, if Diabetes Mellitus immediately treated, given the vitamins (beta carotene, vitamins E and C) and minerals, and fluids or hair roots amplifier hairtonic.

People with Diabetes Ear conditions:

  • Because the auditory nerve Diabetes Mellitus patients can be easily damaged, the ear often mendenging.
  • If this condition is not immediately treated or cared for, his hearing will decline even become deaf

People with Diabetes Eye conditions:

  • When blood glucose levels in the high sudden, a convex lens of the eye becomes blurred and the patient complained, usually the patient will often replace the glasses.
  • This disease can make the eye lens becomes opaque (white) and usually become blurred, called cataracts. If the cataract is ripe, should be operated.
  • Chronic complications in the other eye is the increased press eyeball called glaucoma, this condition is often characterized by headaches around the eyes.
  • Tear production tends to diminish that require eye drops.
  • This situation will usually arise after suffering more than 10 -15 years. Is the disruption of the light receiver or the retina of the eye located behind the lens. Disturbances in the retina is called diabetic retinopathy.

Conditions Tongue Diabetes Patients:

  • The tongue enlarges and patients often have long thick when this disease
  • Sometimes a sense of sensitivity disturbances arising on the tongue or taste disturbed eating

People with Diabetes Saliva conditions:
Saliva patients often become more viscous, so the dry mouth is called xerostomia Diabetic. Instead saliva sometimes called excessive Hipersavili Diabetic.

Condition of teeth and gums Diabetes Patients:

  • Network that binds the teeth in the jaw called periodontium easily damaged, teeth Diabetes Mellitus patients easily shaken off even easier. Diabetes Mellitus is why people do not rush pulling teeth when the teeth easily shaken, but first take care of Diabetes Mellitusnya
  • Diabetes Mellitus patients gums are often swollen and infected. Because of frequent infections, bad breath Diabetes Mellitus patients are often less good (foetor exoris diabetic).

Diabetes Patients Lung conditions:

Patients with Diabetes Mellitus if cough usually last long, his defense declined when compared with normal people, and usually prone to tuberculosis. In order to quickly recover pulmonary TB should be treated properly.

Heart Condition Diabetes Patients:

Patients with Diabetes Mellitus easier to suffer coronary heart disease is heart disease caused by narrowing of the coronary arteries. If this happens, the heart muscle will be deprived of oxygen from the food, and will become part of the heart is weak or dead. This condition is called cardiac infarction (acute myocardial mokard). Patients with shortness of breath easily when the road or up the stairs, called the heart or bad Dekompensasi cordis.

Lever circumstances Diabetes Mellitus Patients:

Patients who are not treated properly, will suffer from liver disease due to diabetes. So it was not for lack of glucose in the liver. This disorder is called diabetic heart disease. It is also susceptible to inflammatory liver disease due to hepatitis B and C, therefore Diabetes Mellitus patients should abstain from hepatitis patients. patients with chronic hepatitis who may also suffer from Diabetes Mellitus when it's a lot of damaged liver cells.

It is a mistaken assumption that if people with diabetes also suffer from liver disease due to lack of glucose, whereas the right:

  • Diabetes sufferers should not be drinking glucose, while also suffering from liver disease
  • This patient suffered from liver disease easily because not treated properly

Diabetes Patients Stomach Condition:

  • Because the long-suffering Diabetes Mellitus which ultimately preserve the nerves of the stomach to be broken so that the function of the stomach becomes weak
  • This situation will cause nausea, stomach feels full, bloated, food does not come down quickly, sometimes the pain arising in solar plexus. But if treated well will disappear in 10 to 20 days

People with Diabetes Colon conditions:

  • Disturbances in the intestines that often experienced by sufferers is a difficult bowel movement.
  • By treating Diabetes Mellitus in accordance with the instructions, drink lots, eat lots of vegetables, exercising regularly and taking certain medications. Complaints will be reduced in a relatively long time. Complaints are referred Diabetic Obtipasi.
  • Circumstances indicate the contrary sometimes complain of diarrhea, watery dung many without mules. Often occur at night, can occur from 4 to 5 days called Diabetic Diarrhea.

People with Diabetes Kidney conditions:

  • Compared with normal people, people more likely to have kidney function disorders caused by infection factors repeatedly experienced by sufferers of Diabetes Mellitus
  • Constriction factor capillary blood vessels called at the Mikrongiopati Diabetic kidney
  • Mikroangiopati complications Maniferstasi Diabetic nephropathy is the kidney and have diabetes type or stage 4 that is:
  1. Type B Stage I
  2. Stage II Type B2
  3. Type B3 Stage III
  4. Bc type terminal stages of Stage IV (late stage)
  5. In stage III or IV, renal function is very bad and often patients need to have dialysis or Hemodialysis

Bladder Condition Diabetes Patients:

  • This patient bladder must be considered because of frequent urinary tract infections. If this happens the patient difficult urination, urine buried and stuck in the bladder, a condition called Urine Retensio.
  • Conversely if the nature of the control nervous disorder, patients often wetting or urinating out of his own called Urine incontinence.

The patient's blood vessel condition Diabetes Mellitus:

  • Paralyzed or weak half
  • When paralyzed on the right to speak even with interference mute
  • When blockages occur in areas important to the patient dies
  • The case may be solved immediately with Mellitusnya Diabetes care in hospital by giving aspirin tablets, injections and tablets Persantin and other drug groups OAAT (Anti Drug Aggregating Platelets)

Sexual condition Diabetes Mellitus Patients:

During the nerves that maintain sexual devices is not disturbed, usually sexual abilities remained normal patients. But if the nerve damage is severe and permanent, usually the patient will become impotent. This impotence in general should not be treated with an injection of male sex hormones called testosterone because testosterone hormone levels are usually people with Diabetes Mellitus is still normal. Impotence in Diabetes Mellitus patients can be divided into two types of neurogenic impotence and psychogenic impotence.

Nerve vein circumstances Diabetes Mellitus Patients:

Because such high levels of glucose, this situation damage nerves. Abnormalities of the nerves is due to Diabetes Mellitus Diabetic Neuropathy. Diabetic neuropathy symptoms that often arise are:

  • Tingling
  • Burning sensation or feeling pricked-acupuncture
  • If you think ditelapak feet thick occur sufferers feel like walking on the mattress.
  • Even sandals are often missed in certain tenpat
  • Cramps
  • Body ache, especially at night
  • If the damage occurred in many nerve endings called polineuropati Diabetic
  • Street people will limp and muscles become smaller, called atrophy
  • All nerve disorders due to Diabetes Mellitus can be overcome if it's not too late

The patient's blood vessel condition Diabetes Mellitus:

The most dangerous complications in these patients is complications in blood vessels. Constriction of blood vessels in these patients is called Diabetic Angiopati. While the Angiopati Diabetic capillary blood pembulug called Diabetic Mikroangiopatik. For example in the retina of the eye called retinopathy Diabetic and Diabetic kidney Neropati called. In medical, Diabetes Mellitus patients kualita determined by blood vessels.

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