What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a very common condition in the whole of the world, owing to the unhealthy lifestyle of the people. In India, more than 30 million people suffer from diabetes. The medical name of diabetes is diabetes mellitus and it is a condition in which the level of glucose in the blood rises as the blood is unable to utilize the glucose amount properly. Diabetes, when untreated may result in diseases related to heart and kidney. A patient of diabetes is susceptible to heart stroke and loss of vision too.
There are two kinds of diabetes- Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes is a condition when the body is unable to produce insulin. Usually such a condition occurs before 40 years of age and patients need to be given insulin treatment in such cases. Type 2 Diabetes is a condition that crops up when body is not producing optimum amount of insulin. This process is called as insulin resistance and occurs due to overweight in the patient.
Sometimes pregnant women develop gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes usually gets over as soon as the pregnancy is over but the patient is susceptible to develop type 2 diabetes later in life.
Pay attention to the symptoms that may arise as a result of diabetes and contact your doctor immediately. Stay wary of increased thirst, urination, tiredness, loss of weight, blurred vision, frequent UTI episodes, genital itching, extreme hunger, feeling of
ageing etc. Contact Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity at Max for precise and successful treatment of your condition.
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