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Diabetes is treated mainly by two factors: by medication and by diet. Irrespective of the medication chosen in your case, you must be preoccupied to have an optimal weight. There are people who, at the beginning lose a lot of weight. They are thin, skinny, and they appear to be always ill. They are rare cases. Most often diabetes appears in the case of people who are too fat.

Treatment of type 2 diabetes

In the case of type 2 diabetes, after a meal, the insulin secretion is slow and insufficient, and it determines an exaggerated and extended growth of sugar level. In some cases these problems can be solved without medication, only through diet. In most of the cases the treatment of type 2 diabetes consists in taking pills, associated with diet and physical exercise. Oral treatment is efficient as long as the pancreas secretes insulin. In time, in the case of some patients it becomes inefficient and the only optimal treatment is insulin.

Oral treatment in the case of type 2 diabetes

Pills used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes can be divided in more groups:

- Based on sulfonylurea

- The first substance in a new class of oral medication against diabetes: lunch sugar level regulators.

They stimulate the insulin secretion by the pancreas during short periods, thus protecting the pancreatic cell against overcharge. Medication based on sulfonylurea has as main effect the pancreas stimulation in order to produce more insulin. There are some pills, too which increase the absorption of glucose by the cells.

Treatment with insulin in type 2 diabetes

Treatment with insulin remains the last hope when diet, physical exercise and oral therapy don’t succeed to assure an acceptable control of sugar level. Treatment with insulin will determine a general improvement of metabolism, with normal values of sugar level and fats, a better mood, from the physical and psychical point of view, preventing diabetes subsequent complications. A lot of persons suffering from type 2 diabetes are afraid of the change from pills to insulin and they are worried by the fact that they must inject insulin themselves. Modern injection devices permit a safer insulin injection, so that more people accept the treatment with insulin now.

If you find out a sugar value higher than normal in your blood, apart from other characteristic clinical signs and symptoms it is more than certain that you suffer from diabetes.

The signs and symptoms of type 1 diabetes appear relatively quickly, from a few days to 2-3 months and they are:

• Excessive thirst
• Abundant urination
• Tiredness
• Exaggerated hunger
• Weakness and loss of weight eve if appetite sometimes is high; however this symptom can be rare.

The signs and the symptoms of type 2 diabetes appear later, during the evolution of the disease. Many persons don’t have any symptoms when the disease is detected. The patient does not know that he or she suffers from diabetes. This is often detected on the occasion of laboratory tests performed occasionally. Be careful, that sometimes the moment of the disease detection does not correspond to the moment of type 2 diabetes occurrence, which might have appeared some years before.

When the sugar value in your blood is higher than 180 mg/dl, glucose appears in the urine and the following symptoms appear:

• Excessive thirst which is associated with the consumption of high amounts of water. Some persons may consume even 4-6 liters of water per day, which can be a warning sign.
• Abundant urination: it may happen that the patient who suffers from diabetes gets up even at night to go to the toilet.
• Tiredness associated with irritability
• Loss of weight although the patient may eat a lot, but this can be explained by the tendency of the impossibility of the body to use the food and the auto digestion tendency for survival (the organism starts consuming from itself if it can’t use the food)
• Sight problems
• Repeated infections which can’t be cured

All these symptoms, especially when they are detected together are very important and it should always lead to a sugar level test, in order to see if you suffer from diabetes.