Diabetic Issues from Adult Health Care Providers in New York City

by Steve Son Marketing Representative

Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are diseases of the endocrine system that can strike anyone regardless of age. Type 1 is more likely to strike in childhood whereas type 2 often doesn’t show up until after age 40. As per estimates, diabetes claims the life of one American every three minutes and is also the number one cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart failure, stroke, and amputations.

In diabetes, your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high that comes from the foods that you eat. The hormone insulin helps the glucose get into your cells to give them energy. Your body doesn’t make insulin in type 1 diabetes. Type 2 is the most common type when body does not make or use insulin well that causes the glucose to stay in the blood. You can also be at the receiving end of prediabetes which means that your blood sugar is higher than normal but not high enough to be called diabetes. With prediabetes, you at a higher risk of getting type 2 diabetes.

Causes and Symptoms of Diabetes from adult health care New York City centres-

Cause:

We have already talked about the hormone insulin that under normal circumstances is produced by our bodies to allow the sugars (glucose) from the foods we eat to be absorbed by our cells in order to produce the energy we need. The pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin for this process to properly occur in individuals with diabetes. Apart from type 1 and type 2 diabetes, there are actually other types of diabetes, as well, including gestational diabetes, which occurs during pregnancy, and pre-diabetes, a potentially reversible condition that can eventually lead to diabetes.

Cause of type 1 diabetes is still not known whereas in type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes the body’s cells become resistant to the action of insulin, and the pancreas cannot create enough insulin to compensate that leads to build up of sugars in the bloodstream since the energy from the foods eaten can’t be absorbed by the cells to be used for energy.

According to the American Diabetes Association, individuals at risk for diabetes should have their blood glucose tested regularly which includes anyone over 45 years of age, those considered to be pre-diabetic, individuals with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or higher and any individual with type 1 or 2 diabetes.

Visit your local primary care for blood glucose and other tests.

Symptoms:

Symptoms vary depending on the amount of sugar present in the blood. The symptoms are similar for both type 1 and type 2, the symptoms tend to be more sudden and pronounced with type 1 diabetes though.

Increased thrust, fatigue, dry mouth, headaches, extreme hunger, frequent urination, blurred vision, unexplained weight loss, irritability, sores that are slow to heal and frequent infections including gums, skin, and vaginal infections- these are some signs of diabetes.

Take a simple blood test to either confirm or rule out the disease if you experience any signs of diabetes.

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