Diabetes, a silent killer, is the leading cause of many serious health complications. This chronic medical condition is characterized by increased levels of sugar in the blood caused by the inability of body to produce or use insulin. The most frequent types of diabetes or diabetes mellitus are type 1diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and gestational [...]

Four warning signs you shouldn’t ignore   Full blown diabetes is easy to spot: frequent, uncontrollable urges to urinate, virtually unquenchable thirst, numbness in your hands and feet. Symptoms leading up to the full blown disease are easier to ignore. But ignorance isn’t bliss. Here are the top silent alarms.   You feel sleepy right [...]

Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in many countries. Here we discuss the effects of two main types of diabetes – Type 1 Diabetes & Type 2 Diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is also known as juvenile diabetes and it generally affects children. The other counterpart, Type 2 effect adults more. The effects of diabetes on the [...]

Diseases listed in diabetes mellitus are many but the most common is type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. These are diseases of the metabolic system and involve the body’s ability to metabolize sugar with insulin. Insulin helps cells use glucose simple sugar that is needed for the repair, growth and energy. In type 1 [...]

Diabetes is treated by ensuring that a diabetic patient has normal blood glucose levels. Thus avoids complications in long and short term. A diabetic patient controls his blood sugar levels by ensuring a proper balance between supplies (does the value rise), medication and / or insulin (do the values fall) and movement (does the value [...]