| Special areas in the pancreas gland, the
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| | -Dryness in the mouth
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| islets of Langerhans, produce a hormone
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| | -An abnormal high appetite
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| called insulin. This hormone is a protein
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| | -Feeling extremely tired and weak
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| of small size. Insulin stimulates muscle
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| | -Weight loss, even when one eats well
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| cells and other body cells to take up
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| | -Impaired vision
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| glucose from the blood and convert the
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| | If the blood sugar level is not
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| glucose to glycogen, a kind of starch,
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| | stabilized to a normal value, there will
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| and then store the glycogen. By need the
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| | be an accumulation of chemicals in the
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| body cells convert the glycogen to
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| | body called ketones, and this condition
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| glucose and use it as fuel. In this way
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| | is called diabetic ketoacidosis. This
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| insulin keeps the glucose level in the
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| | serious condition can lead to coma and
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| blood at a normal size.
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| | death. The signs of ketoacidosis are:
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| By diabetes type I the cells producing
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| | -Vomiting,
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| insulin are destroyed. Then less glucose
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| | -Pain in the stomach
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| is taken up from the blood into the body
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| | -Rapid breathing,
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| cells and utilized there, and glucose
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| | -High pulse rate
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| accumulates in the blood.
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| | -Somnolence (abnormal tendency to sleep)
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| | In the long term, diabetes type 1 can
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| THE CAUSES AND MECHANISMS OF DIABETES
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| | severely hurt the blood vessels in vital
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| TYPE I
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| | organs. This can further cause damage to
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| The cause of the disease is not well
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| | the heart, eyes, kidneys or other body
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| known. An auto-immune response attacking
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| | organs.
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| the insulin producing cells in the
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| langerhansian islets may be a cause.
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| | TREATMENTS OF DIABETES TYPE 1
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| Virus infection may be another cause. The
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| | Diabetes type 1 is treated with insulin
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| disease also is to some extend inherited.
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| | injections. Implanting insuline cells in
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| When the glucose uptake into the body
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| | the pancreas is an experimental
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| cells is reduced, but glucose instead
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| | treatment. Another experimental treatment
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| accumulates in the blood, the following
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| | is to implant stem cells in the pancreas
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| physiological effects occur:
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| | that can develop into new insulin
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| -The body cells do not get enough fuel
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| | producing cells.
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| for the work they shall do.
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| | Another important module of the treatment
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| -The molecular thickness (osmality) of
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| | is regulation of the amount of sugar and
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| the blood increases. This causes water to
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| | fat consumed through the diet so that it
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| be pulled out from the body tissues and
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| | fits together with the insulin-amount
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| into the blood. The tissues thus get
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| | injected. Also regular monitoring of the
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| dried out and the urine production
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| | blood sugar level to regulate the insulin
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| increases.
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| | amount is an important part of the
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| -The tissues begin to break down protein
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| | treatment.
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| and fat to get energy, causing weight
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| | There are also natural products in the
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| loss and muscular reduction.
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| | market that can help to normalize the
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| The symptoms of diabetes type 1 are a
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| | blood sugar level by diabetes type 1.
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| consequence of these mechanisms.
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| | Those products cannot heal the disease or
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| | replace insulin injections, but they can
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| SYMPTOMS OF DIABETES TYPE 1
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| | help the body to regulate the blood sugar
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| The disease often starts suddenly. Often
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| | level. These products contain minerals
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| children or young people are attacked by
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| | that are working components of enzymes
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| the disease. The lack of insulin causes
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| | that stimulate the glucose metabolism in
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| an increased amount of blood sugar. Early
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| | the body. They also contain herbs that
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| symptoms of the disease are:
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| | have been used for a long time in
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| -Increased urine production
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| | traditional medicine to regulate the
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| -Dehydration (lack of water in the body)
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| | glucose level and that have proven their
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| -Abnormally high thirst as a consequence
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| | effects in scientific studies.
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| of increased urine production
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