5 surprising facts about diabetes that you must know
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With our busy lifestyle, diabetes is also growing tremendously all over India. Diabetes is a metabolic disorder when the body doesn’t make enough insulin, but your body needs hormone insulin to change blood sugar (glucose) into energy. Diabetes has affected thousands of people in the northeast and many people died due to diabetes. Despite its growing prevalence, there are few surprising facts about diabetes that everyone should know. So, let’s find out what are those facts -

Fact 1# Sugar Is Not the Culprit for Diabetes

Yes, it is believed that eating too much sugar can increase your blood sugar level and risk your health. But having a diet full of soda and sugary food such as cereal, processed food and snacks can put your health on high risk.

Type 1 diabetes (juvenile diabetes) is an autoimmune disease which occurs at a very young age when pancreas shuts down and stops producing insulin that needs to control glucose from the food. Moreover, it can be a family history and there is very less chance to cure type 1 diabetes. Manage your blood sugar level by managing regular insulin shots, carbohydrates counting by doing regular exercise and following a strict healthy diet.

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes that develops when the pancreas keeps producing insulin, a hormone that brings glucose into your body’s cells to be used as energy, but excessively. The body fails to maintain normal body glucose levels, or the body is not reactive to the amount of insulin it produces. Type 2 diabetes main risk factors are being overweight and family history. Oral medications and insulin are the things which one needs to keep a check on and maintaining a healthy diet and regular exercise is another thing to keep on the mind.

Fact 2# People with Diabetes Can Enjoy Sweets

Overeating of any food can be hazardous for your health and this count for diabetic patients too. You are not allowed to eat a box full of sweets or cake, but you can eat a piece of sweet or cake to treat your sweet tooth. The carbohydrates contained in sweet foods can increase your blood sugar level, though you can control it by taking a count on carbohydrates every time you eat sweet food. You can also look for a substitute by swapping real sugar with sugar-free or diabetic foods.

Fact 3# Gestational Diabetes Does Not Mean Your Baby Will Have Diabetes

As per the survey, about nine per cent of pregnant women can become insulin resistant during pregnancy and develop gestational diabetes. Diabetes can occur later during pregnancy also because the pancreas keeps working intensely to produce insulin.

If you have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes, then it doesn’t mean your baby will also have diabetes. Though it is very essential to work with your obstetrician to manage your health condition, or else your baby’s pancreas will also make extra insulin and your baby can be at risk for large birth weights, low blood glucose levels, and breathing problems. In most of the cases, diabetes goes away as the pregnancy ends.

Fact 4# Diabetes causes a lot of emotions

If you find a diabetic patient angry, depressed or anxious, then you don’t have to worry because it is common signs of diabetes. It can be very nerve-wracking for a diabetic patient to keep a check on the blood glucose level daily, to take control of what you eat and taking medication every day on time. For them, it is easy to feel different and distress diabetes when they know that the glucose level is still not under control. So, we would suggest that take care of those natural emotions and don’t let these emotions to turn out as barriers to self-care. Be careful about them and try to offer support and encouragement.

Fact 5# Take a lot of time and adjustment

If your closed ones get diagnosed with diabetes, then give them full support because it takes a lot of time for adjustment. A diabetic patient goes through several blood tests, finger pricking, shot-giving and self-monitoring to maintain the blood sugar level. There are many factors which affect your blood sugar levels including what food you are eating, how much you eat, how much exercise you are doing daily, your medicine intake and stress your taking. Untreated diabetes can lead to life-long serious complications such as liver problem, heart problem, blindness, and neuropathy.

Hope this article was helpful for you. So, if you have someone diagnosed with diabetes then try to help them by sharing these important diabetes facts.

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