7/04/2010

What is Diabetes Melitius?

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is disease of degenerative needing of serious and correct handling effort. Otherwise, affect from the diabetes melitius will bring other serious complication disease, like heart sickness, stroke, abnormal erection function, kidney failure, and damage of nerve system.

According to World Health Organization data (WHO), diabetes melitius affects more than 20 million Americans. Over 40 million Americans have pre diabetes. And the nation with the most diabetes cases area: India, China, Soviet, Japan, and Brazil and Indonesia. 90-95 % of those are having TYPE 2 DIABETES.

Diabetes Melitius itself defined as disease where patient body cannot automatically to control sugar level (glucose) in his blood. Patient of diabetes cannot produce enough insulin, so that occur excesses of sugar in body. Excess of chronic sugar in blood (hyperglycemia) become poison for body.

Type of Diabetes
1. Diabetes Type 1 (IDDM/depended insulin)
Someone told byType 1 Diabetes , if body needs supply of insulin from outside. This matter caused by beta cells from Langerhans islands have experienced of damage, so that pancreas desists to produce insulin. Damage of the beta cell can occur since childhood and or after adult.Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in childhood. Many patients are diagnosed when they are older than age 20.The exact cause is unknown. Genetics, viruses, and autoimmune problems may play a role.

2. Diabetes Type 2 (NIDDM/not depended of insulin)
Type 2 diabetes is far more common than type 1.Type 2 diabetes happened if insulin result of production of pancreas insufficient or fat cell and body muscle become impenetrable to insulin, so make trouble delivery of sugar to body cell.
Usually disease of this diabetes type is hit adult people.
But young people are increasingly being diagnosed due to increasing obesity and failure to exercise.with this disease. Type 2 diabetes is far more common than type 1.

3.Gestational Diabetes
Some women develop gestational diabetes late in pregnancy. Although this form of diabetes usually goes away after the baby is born, a woman who has had gestational diabetes is more likely to develop type 2 diabetes later in life. Gestational diabetes is caused by the hormones of pregnancy or a shortage of insulin.