Diabetes
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What are diabetes?
Diabetes
is a disease that affects your body's ability to produce or use insulin. Insulin is a hormone. When your body turns the food you eat into energy (also called sugar or glucose), insulin is released to help transport this energy to the cells.pricking your finger
Your finger are target of choice since a pin prick repairs quickly. You can use your fore arm as well, but the repair from the pin prick is slower. You can use your toes, however, repair here is slow and then your feet are very prone to problems as a diabetic.
how do you get diabetes
People with
diabetes
have high blood glucose, also called high blood sugar or hyperglycemia.diabetes
Diabetes
is a chronic condition associated with abnormally high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. The two types ofdiabetes
are referred to as type 1 and type 2. Symptoms ofdiabetes
include. If you think you havediabetes
contact a health-care professional.Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes, previously called juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, represents about 5% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes. With type 1 diabetes, the body doesn’t make enough insulin at first. Eventually, it makes almost no insulin. Because of this, too much sugar can build up in the blood and can cause some diabetes-related problems (complications). Although type 1 diabetes often shows up in childhood or early adulthood, it can appear at any age.
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