Showing posts with label diabetes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diabetes. Show all posts

Monday, 8 August 2011

treatment for diabetes


 goal of diabetes treatment is to keep blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible. There are three basic treatments:

1. Diet: Changes in the diet of 30% fat (fat, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats mostly), carbohydrates 40-55% (index fiber, low glycemic index) and 15% protein. The breakdown of carbohydrates and calories during the day are important, and to limit total calories to achieve an ideal weight around. This configuration reduces the blood glucose and lipid levels.

2. Exercise: Exercise burns calories and muscle glycogen, which lowers blood sugar. Exercise reduces insulin resistance, allowing insulin to control blood glucose levels normal.

3rd Medical:

- Oral medications to lower blood glucose levels by increasing release of insulin by the pancreas, the reduction of available glucose or decrease insulin resistance.

- Drug injecting:

Insulin is injected to replace the insulin the body can not produce. Insulin lowers blood sugar.

Exenatide (brand name Byetta) is an incretin mimetic that mimics a hormone that creates more insulin. Also works as an appetite suppressant.

Pramlintide is a synthetic form of amylin hormone, which is limited to a diabetic. Amylin slows gastric lavage, and regulates the amount of glucose in the blood level increases.

Diet and exercise are the basis for treatment. Medications - oral medications or injections of insulin and other substances - are added, if the target blood glucose is achieved.

causes of diabetes


Hereditary or inherited traits: He firmly believes that because certain genes from one generation to another, a person may inherit diabetes. It depends on the close ties of blood that the mother has diabetes, the risk is 2 or 3%, father is diabetic, the risk is higher than the previous case, and if both parents are diabetic, the child at increased risk for diabetes.

Age: Age is a factor that gives more options than in the young. This disease can occur at any age, but 80% of cases occur after age 50, the increase in incidence with age factor.

Poor diet (malnutrition related diabetes): improper diet, low in protein and fiber, high intake of refined products are expected for the causes of diabetes.

Obesity and fat distribution: Being overweight means increased insulin resistance, when body fat exceeds 30%, BMI 25 +, 35 inches in size grith women or 40 inches males.

Sedentary lifestyle: People with a sedentary lifestyle are more prone to diabetes, compared with those who exercise three times a week is a low risk of falling prey to diabetes.

Stress: any physical injury or emotional problems are often blamed as the cause of the disease. Any interruption in therapy or ACTH Cortiosteroid can lead to clinical signs of disease.

Drug: clozapine (Clozaril), olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel) and ziprasidone (Geodon) are known to cause this deadly disease.

Infection: Some of strephylococci is supposed to be the factor responsible for the infection in the pancreas.

Gender: Diabetes is often seen in elderly females, mostly men, but strong among women and people with multiple pregnancy or suffering from (PCOS), polycystic ovary syndrome.

Hypertension: It has been reported in many studies that there is a direct correlation between systolic blood pressure and diabetes.

Plasma lipids and lipoproteins, triglycerides and cholesterol in the blood is associated with hyperglycemia, in some cases we have studied the risk of trafficking, including low HDL levels in circulating blood.

types of diabetes


Type 1 diabetes is sometimes called insulin-dependent diabetes or juvenile onset autoimmune diseases. It is caused by an autoimmune reaction where the body's defense system attacks insulin-producing cells. The reason this happens is not fully understood. People with type 1 diabetes produce little or no insulin. The disease can affect people of any age but usually occurs in children or young adults. People with this type of diabetes need daily insulin injections to control glucose levels in the blood. If people with type 1 diabetes have no access to insulin, which will die.

Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 90% of cases of diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes is sometimes called non-insulin-dependent diabetes or adult-onset diabetes, and represents at least 90% of all cases of diabetes. E 'characterized by insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency, both of which may be present when the diabetes becomes clinically apparent. The diagnosis of type 2 diabetes usually occurs after age 40, but may occur earlier, especially among high incidence of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes may go unnoticed, many yearsand the diagnosis is often made of complications, or otherwise through an abnormal blood or urine glucose tests. Often, but not always, associated with obesity, which in turn may cause insulin resistance and leads to high levels of glucose in the blood.