Case history: type 1 diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus type one( insulin-dependent diabetes) - with this disease, in the human body, insulin ceases to be produced, that is, sugar is not absorbed by cells and accumulates in the blood. In turn, sugar corrodes blood vessels and small capillaries, which can lead to heart disease or even death. Patients with this disease need to constantly inject themselves with insulin.

Why does type 1 diabetes occur.

Case history: Type 1 diabetes occurs most often at a young age and in young people( up to 30 years), but can develop in adulthood. The cause of diabetes is most often a viral infection. When a virus enters the body, antibodies are produced that kill this infection, usually these antibodies die when they have nothing to eat, but in some cases the virus can mutate and begin to destroy the cells of the gastrointestinal tract, which are actually responsible for producingInsulin. As a result of which insulin ceases to be produced, a type 1 diabetes mellitus occurs. It can also develop with early artificial feeding of children, cow's milk;With physical or psychological stress, the use of food with artificial additives.

First signs of the disease.

Patients are constantly thirsty, sudden weight loss, poor health and fast fatigue, frequent urination, itching, visual impairment, eating disorders( decreased or increased appetite).

Symptoms of the disease in children or what to look for:

Diabetes is most often affected by premature, often refractory, having reduced immunity - children. With constant thirst in children, increased urination, especially at night - parents should pay special attention to this, and conduct laboratory tests of blood and urine to detect the level of sugar.

Sentence or other way of life?

With early diagnosis of the disease, when the cells responsible for producing insulin do not all die, you can significantly reduce blood sugar, and even cure. But the difficulty lies in the fact that it is heavily diagnosed, and people live with this disease for years without even knowing about it. The level of insulin, in the blood can be increased by artificial insulin injection with a special syringe, or an insulin pump.

Diabetes for type 1 diabetes.

In diabetics of the first type, the diet will not help, and people who have this disease can eat, like everyone else, the only thing they need is to constantly determine the blood sugar level for the correct administration of insulin.
So it can be said that type 1 diabetes is not a sentence yet, but only a different way of life.