Diabetes, A Too Common Disease In The World Today!

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Diabetes is a serious disease and has some long-term effects that develop slowly over many years, which, if not controlled, are life threatening.
Diabetes is a chronic disease, it manifests itself by altering the way your body uses glucose for energy. People without diabetes have a normal hormone secretion of insulin, which produced in the pancreas is leached into the blood stream to regulate the blood/glucose levels. The disease can be caused through either the pancreas failing to produce insulin or the insulin use in the body becomes less effective. The reasons for contracting Diabetes are still not known, but there does seem to be a link through both genetic inheritance and lifestyle, such as obesity and lack of exercise.

People with diabetes have lost this natural ability to control the secretion of insulin and end up with blood/glucose levels that are too high or too low. Both can be dangerous. For persons with diabetes control of the blood/sugar levels has to be made with external injections of insulin. This requires a great deal of education as well as the support of their families and friends. When diabetes is diagnosed, the educational process starts with the medical doctor, Chinese medicine doctor, dietician, nurse and social worker. Because ongoing research leads to medical discoveries related to diabetes, continuing education about diabetes and overall health is essential for the best control of the disease.
At present, approximately 2.46 hundred million of the world population suffer from diabetes in some form or other, every year it increases by 7,000,000 and this seems to be increasing.

What was more fearful; every 10 seconds one person dies of diabetes or a related disease caused by diabetes. Diabetes causes many complications, including skin pathological change, kidney pathological change, nerve pathological change, eye ground pathological change. It is often associated with long-term complications that can affect every part and system of the body including the nervous system.

When diabetes is detected, the person must adopt a very carefully controlled lifestyle, the doctor may prescribe changes in eating habits, weight control and regular exercise programs that will enable most people with diabetes to live a fairly normal, productive life, with only minimal drugs to keep the disease in check.