diabetes mellitus: is a disease associated with body sugar, its concentration in blood and utilization ratio

by the body.

causes

insulin is a hormone released by the pnacrease. insulin makes it possible for celles all over the body to
absorb glucose, or blood sugar. To understand how insulin works, think of a key and door. insulin is like
the key. its needed to unlock the door of the cell and allow sugar to pass to into the cell after digestion.
without insulin, the cell would just about starve. people who have diabetes have a problm with their
insulin. they either dont make enough insulin or their bodies dont use the insulin properly.

when insulin is not available sugar cant be absorbed into the cell. so sugar gathers in the blood
stream. this is called high blood sugar. the high blood sigars leads to moost of the symptoms of diabetes.

signs and symptoms

diabetes may come on slowly, with weight loss, weakeness and fatigue, or can appear rapidly, with thirst
and increased urination thats usually associated with viral infection.

complications

diabetes can be dangerous and even deadly disease. one reason is that a number of serious
complications can occur especially when sugar levels are not well controlled like heart attack, stroke,
blindness and kidney failure which all come from high blood sugar destryoing atries in the various
organs.

prevention and control.

it is often clearly now that diabetes have some lethal effect in the body and one should know how to
control the disease. You can control diabetes but not prevent it as diabetes usually runs in family.

how to control diabetes.

controlling food we eat, exercise regularly and medicine prescribe by a profession helps reduce diabetic
symptoms.