Diabetes Dangers – Type 1 vs 2

Not every type of diabetes is the same. Yes! Every form of diabetes comes with an increase of glucose in the blood but the way this happens and why it happens is somewhat different. The consequences and dangers are also different as well as the prognosis so we usually differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus but there are also less commonly known types and forms of diabetes such as gestational diabetes and diabetes as a consequence of different other primary conditions. I would like to explain one truly important difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes and how they threaten our health differently. Type 1 diabetes usually starts suddenly and it presents with ketoacidosis. Those are usually patients who were otherwise healthy and young but they have an acute ketoacidosis coupled with polyuria and leg pain or cramps. Patients presenting with ketoacidosis normally breathe very deeply and they hyperventilate. the reason why these patients are hyperventilating is because their ph value is too low. Patients with type 1 diabetes have the pancreas that cannot produce insulin and this leads to this acute sudden onset of symptoms.Ppancreas is an organ that is located in the close proximity of the stomach right over there but because of this lack of insulin that pancreas is producing or at least is supposed to produce the glucose cannot actually leave the blood and go enter the cells of muscles such as biceps muscle over here. This is dangerous because glucose is a form of sugar and our body needs that sugar to burn it and that way gain energy from it. When this doesn’t happen the body and the cells in the body start burning fat instead of sugar and burning fat produces ketone bodies. These ketone bodies make our blood acidic and ultimately we call that condition ketoacidosis so because the blood is becoming more acidic.Oour body usually comes up with an answer to that and that is hyperventilation. By hyperventilating these patients can actually release co2 through the lungs and that way reduce the acidity of the blood. Co2 makes our blood more acidic. So, that’s what’s dangerous about type 1 diabetes. The patients cannot produce insulin at all it causes acute symptoms and then ultimately it can cause coma and death but even though some risk factors have been identified such as vitamin d deficiency or viral infections. Patients usually have no idea why they got this type 1 diabetes and they cannot explain what caused it. It just happens suddenly. It is heartbreaking to realize and to discover that you suffer from diabetes even though up until then everything was fine and health was maybe even in its best possible shape and state. So, Type 1 diabetes sounds scary one cannot dispute that but type 1 diabetes is treated more easily and it can be treated very successfully if the patients are compliant and if their therapy was applied in an appropriate way. The prognosis is overall not that bad. In fact, It’s good one of the reasons why prognosis is good for type 1 diabetes is because there is no resistance to insulin the body simply lacks insulin but other than that if we provide that body with insulin then it should be okay. The type 2 diabetes is somewhat different.Nnormally, In the early stage of type 2 diabetes, The patients become more and more resistant to insulin and the pancreas in fact is producing more insulin that it normally would be producing. It is harder to treat and it cannot be cured. This insulin resistance gets worse and worse and the insulin that is produced by the pancreas loses its effectiveness. This glucose simply remains in the blood and it doesn’t reach the peripheral organs such as the muscles and it happens so even if the pancreas is trying to compensate for that by producing more insulin. The onset of this disease is not acute or sudden. The patients usually don’t even realize that something is wrong that their glucose levels are actually elevated. These symptoms are subtle and the development of this condition happens slowly over the course of many years basins are usually becoming more obese and they start losing their eyesight. Their nerves become more and more damaged. They experience the so-called diabetic neuropathy. So, Type 1 diabetes attacks our health suddenly but it is easier to manage later on. Type 2 diabetes develops slowly but it is harder and harder to treat at as the condition progresses. Both of these conditions should be treated promptly because that significantly increases the patient’s life expectancy and life quality doctors and patients, We have something for you. If you’re a doctor and you want to make videos like these then go to anatomsky.com but if you have more questions about diabetes then go to simptomsky.com/help/diabetes