This condition is also known as Insulin-dependent diabetes. It is important for Type I diabetics to take daily shots of insulin. Type l diabetes tends to run in families. Siblings of people and children of parents with type l diabetes are at greater risk for Type l Diabetes. The insulin produced is either insufficient to maintain health or it is not used effectively.
Oral medicine is used instead of a insulin injection.
People with a family history of diabetes, people who are overweight or do not exercise regularly or women that have had babies that weighed more than 9 pounds at birth. Many diabetics do not do not develop all of these symptoms. In fact, many who have the disease have not been diagnosed. It is reported that, half of diabetics are not aware that they have the disease. Many asymptomatic patients are diagnosed during a routine health examination.