i was jus curious on the difference between type 1 and 2 diabetes and the effects cause the internet has all these medical answers i juss want a simple answer..thanx
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what exactly is the difference between type1 and type 2 diabetes and what effect do they have on some one?
Diabetes - June 24, 2009
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6 responses so far ↓
1 RIVERKID // Jun 24, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Type 2 can be treated with proper diet, medication, and exercise, because your body produces some insulin.
Type 1 can only be treated with insulin injections because your pancreas does not produce any insulin at all. ————————
2 Solu // Jun 24, 2009 at 11:28 pm
In type 1 your body does not produce any insulin necessary for prosessing food properly. Type 2 some insulin is produced, but not enough. Type 1 is considered worse because it attacks innocent children and their loved ones.
3 Finfame // Jun 24, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Type 1- They no longer produce insulin. They will have to take insulin shots for every. There is no cure right now.
Type 2- They still produce insulin but they either produce to little or they cells have become "resctiance" to insulin. Pills can be taken to reduce this resitance and insulin shots are not always needed. It can be controlled by healthy eating and exersize.
4 celtic.piskie // Jun 24, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Type 1 – it's a disease where your body attacks itself.
Basically, your body gets an infection, and confuses your pancreas cells for an invader, and kills them off.
This means you cannot make any insulin whatsoever.
It is treated by life-long insulin, through injections or pumps.
Because our immune system is screwed, we are a lot more susceptible for infections, and colds / flu can be very dangerous because of our crazy immune system.
Type 2 – Your body, for many different reasons, cannot produce enough insulin.
Either because of obesity, a high carb diet, the body becoming resistant to insulin, or other reasons, it cannot produce enough to deal with all the sugar.
This can be treated by diet, exercise, drugs that encourage the pancreas to make more, drugs that help the body use insulin, or insulin itself.
They are very different problems, with basically the same result.
Your body cannot use the sugar it has.
Your body needs insulin to use the sugar (fuel) in your cells.
Otherwise the sugar stays in our blood, doesn't get used. This causes the cells to run out of fuel and die.
5 Dazedd&&Crazedd // Jun 24, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Type One is juvenile diabetes. There is no reason of why it is caused, but some doctors think sicknesses can cause it, if it is a really intense and rough sickness. Type one is difficult on ones body, it effects eyes, kidneys, and how fast one can heal.
I cant answer well about type 2 other then that obesity causes it.
There is also gestational diabetes, double diabetes, and someone can be diabetic, hypoglycemic, or hyperglycemic.
6 Rickyoutfield // Jun 29, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Type 1 Diabetes is when the pancrease doesn’t produce insulin. Insulin is needed by the body to be able to get the glucose into the cells where it can be used. If there is no insulin, the glucose just circulates in the blood stream.
Type 2 Diabetes comes about when the cells are resistant to the insulin.
Carbohydrates are simply long chains of sugar molecules hooked end-to-end. When a person eats carbohydrates their normal digestive process breaks up these chains into the individual sugar molecules, and they pass right through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream, and load up the bloodstream with sugar.
If this happened every once in a while it would not be a problem. But as diets today are so high in carbohydrates, people have a constant high level of sugar pouring into their bloodstream year after year!
This requires their body to continuously produce high levels of insulin to keep that sugar level down. (Insulin’s job is to push sugar out of the bloodstream into the cells where it is used for energy.)
Eventually the cells in their body becomes insensitive to the effects of the insulin (insulin resistance). To handle this problem of insulin resistance their body begins to produce even higher levels of insulin. This continues until their pancreas reaches the maximum amount of insulin it can produce, and when the insulin resistance increases again, their blood sugar begins to rise out of control.
The result is type 2 diabetes! Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance.
You can read more about this at http://www.diabetes-support.com which also has recipes to help.
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