Treasure Magazine
Diabetes mellitus commonly known as diabetes is a chronic lifelong condition that affects the body’ s ability to use the energy food in food. There are three major types of diabetes; type 1 diabetes, type2 diabetes and gestational diabetes.
All the types of diabetes mellitus have something in common. Normally your body breaks down the sugars and the carbohydrates you eat with simple sugar called glucose( dextrose blood sugar). This Glucose fuels the blood in the body and it’ s absorbed by insulin which is present in the blood cells. So in the case of diabetes mellitus it’ s either the body doesn’ t make enough insulin or it cannot use the insulin it produces or a combination of both. Since the cells can’ t take in the glucose it builds up in your blood it results in increase in your fasting blood sugar( FBS) and random blood Sugar( RBS) above normal. High levels of blood glucose can damage the tiny blood vessels in your kidneys, heart, eyes or nervous system. That’ s why diabetes especially if left untreated can eventually cause heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness and nerve damage to nerves in the feet.
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