Recognizing Symptoms of Diabetes Type 1

Recognizing Symptoms of Diabetes Type 1, health tips, As diabetes becomes more and more found in various parts of the world, being aware of its causes, symptoms and treatments is very important. The fact that it does not only occur in wealthy countries but also in advancing communities has arisen the awareness. Diabetes is divided into type 1 and type 2. Although there are some slight similarities of the symptoms, the case of diabetes type 2 is often caused by lifestyle. On the other hands, type 1 diabetes is usually genetically inherited and started to occur even before a person turns thirty. While curing is a bit harder for type 1, but controlling is possible to do. Making sure that blood glucose is low or normal through watching food and drink consumption is the key.





Factual Information of Type 1 Diabetes
What is diabetes? It is a specific condition of inability of pancreas to produce insulin or the production of this hormone is not sufficient to break glucose from blood and send it to body cells which will use glucose as the fuel for our body. Symptoms of diabetes type 1are normally gradually occurring. Although most of the patients start developing the symptoms before thirty years old, there are also cases where older people experience the signs later in life. In North America alone, the statistics show that between five to ten percent of the citizens are suffering for diabetes type 1. Both men and women share equal chances of this illness.

What Causes Diabetes Type 1
Medically, what is the explanation of type 1 diabetes causes? The answer to this question is quite complicated since to date, the real cause remains unknown yet. However, it is believed that autoimmune reaction is the closest explanation possible. This condition happens when unhealthy surrounding or virus attacks pancreas and makes it unable to function well. Without pancreas functioning well, insulin hormone cannot be released. Or, even though it is produced, its amount is not sufficient for splitting glucose from blood and pushes it into body cells. Failure in insulin production makes the level of sugar in the blood increases which cause diabetes.

General Symptoms
How can one recognize the symptoms of diabetes type 1? The following are some of the most common general signs of people having high blood glucose:

• physically, a person can experience excessive hunger and thirst, but at the same time the weight decreases
• improving frequency of urination; and the more a person drinks to fulfill the increasing thirst, the more s/he also feels the need to pee
• decreasing vision ability, making sight becomes blur
• easily-infected wounds that heal very slowly; sometimes the wound also looks wet
• lowering ability to focus, remember, think, responds
• on-going feeling of tiredness and sleepiness

Severe, Emergency Signs
Besides the above general signs, the following symptoms of diabetes of type 1 can be considered more serious and need urgent treatments:

• disorientation, it makes a person easily becomes confused of pretty much anything, especially those that were not a problem at all but now becoming a serious problem
• bad body coordination and shaky
• breathe faster and the beats of heart also improve
• feeling sick in the tummy, nausea and vomiting

The above conditions require quick medical intervention. Hence, fast responds to the above symptoms will be hospital help. Do not wait.