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Everything You Need To Know About Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes


Important Facts about the Types of Diabetes that Everyone Needs To Know

Type 1 Diabetes 
This type of diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, also called as “juvenile” diabetes. It occurs usually to children and teenagers. With this type of diabetes is crucial because the immune system attacks the pancreas. The immune system destroys the pancreas, an insulin-producing cells. Immune system sees it as foreign therefore, destroys them. This is called "autoimmune" disease. Experts couldn’t explain why.

Symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes
You should visit your physician if you notice one or more signs to be checked-up right away.
  • Always thirsty 
  • Frequent urination 
  • Always hungry 
  • Unexplained weight loss 
  • Irritable and moody 
  • Fatigue and weakness 
  • Blurred vision
How to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes 
Actually, there is no cure in type 1 diabetes yet, you can delay its complications or prevent it to happen. Make sure to keep track the blood sugar in a normal range. Regularly visit your physician to detect the signs before complications happen. If the signs are detected earlier, complications won’t happen.

However, getting a flu vaccine every year is the most important in preventing the disease. Experts said that it’s difficult to manage the blood sugar if you have the flu. It’s also a great idea to be vaccinated for pneumococcal and vaccine for hepatitis B will also help.

Meanwhile, abstinence from smoking helps prevent from getting the disease.

Type 2 Diabetes
This type of diabetes starts in the malfunction of pancreas. Normally, pancreas produces enough insulin to be used in the body to control sugar (glucose) levels in the blood helps the body use glucose for energy. In this case, it’s the opposite, the pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin, or the body doesn’t react properly to insulin and this is called insulin resistance.

Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes 
You should visit your physician if you notice one or more signs to be checked-up right away. 
  • Constant Hunger 
  • Lack of Energy 
  • Fatigue 
  • Excessive Thirst 
  • Frequent Urination 
  • Dry Mouth 
  • Itchy Skin 
  • Blurry Vision
How to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes 
Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes. In preventing this type of diabetes is just easy. Diabetes Prevention Program conducted a research and concluded that you can do a lot to prevent type 2 diabetes.

Here are some things that you can do: 
  1. If you are overweight considering your age, then lose some pounds. 
  2. Exercise. Start a physical exercise for at least 30 minutes 5 days a week. 
  3. Start a healthy diet. Start eating fruits and vegetables. Make sure to track the calories you have intake. 
  4. Drink lots of water and avoid sweetened beverages. 

Most importantly, the best chance for preventing type 2 diabetes is to change your lifestyle and make it healthy.

Source: 
Diabetesresearch 
Webmd 
Webmd 
Mayoclinic

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