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Diabetes

Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder which affects 18 million people in the United States, over two mission of whom have its most sever form, childhood diabetes (Children's Diabetes Foundation at Denver, 2007). Having diabetes means you blood sugar is higher than what it should be. With Juvenile diabetes, the pancreas does not make insulin. Insulin in a hormone that the body normally makes to help convert the glucose in the food we eat into the energy we need. In the absence of this insulin, the glucose will stay in the blood. This results in the blood sugar level being too high which will cause the person to get sick if not treated.
Symptoms
There are many symptoms but they aren’t obvious unless you are aware of them ahead of time. To someone who isn’t familiar with diabetes, the symptoms many seem common for a child. Symptoms include being very thirsty and thus urinating often, feeling very tired or hungry, sudden loss of weight without dieting, possibly having sores that take a long time to heal, having dry itchy skin and even having blurry vision. The onset of these symptoms is usually sudden and action should be taken as soon as you think something may be wrong. The diagnosis for juvenile diabetes can be done quickly with a blood test and treatment for diabetes can stop the symptoms from happening.
Juvenile diabetes, if not treating and cared for, can have many adverse affects on ones health. Nearly 39,000 Americans lose their sight to diabetes each year. One out of three people with insulin-dependent diabetes develops kidney failure and the need for a kidney transplant (Children's Diabetes Foundation at Denver, 2007). Over time, high glucose can lead to other serious problems as well that affect your heart, nerves, gums and teeth. Virtually every major organ in the body can be damaged by diabetes, however, taking care of your diabetes daily will

help keep your sugar levels on target and prevent these types of...