What is diabetes? Whenever we consume carbohydrates, present in food items like bread, rice and many other items, glucose is released into our bloodstream, providing energy to our body. Surplus glucose is also stored up in the liver as glycogen, so that when our bloodstream lacks in sugar, glycogen is broken down to glucose and released into the bloodstream. A hormone named insulin, generated by the pancreas, …show more content…
Prolonged diabetes causes thickening of blood vessels, and eventually damages your organs like kidneys, eyes, livers. It even damages your nerves. Thus, diabetes is a deadly disease. However, a proper diagnosis will maintain the blood glucose levels and no such complications will arise.
Symptoms:
The following are the most common symptoms of diabetes:
• Fatigue
• Frequent urination
• Limbs becoming numb
• Blurred vision
• Slow healing of wounds
Even if you don’t have the above symptoms yet, you should have monitor your glucose levels regularly if you fall into any one of these categories, because then you’re at a risk of diabetes:
• If you’re obese or overweight.
• Your medical history has diabetes, because it’s a hereditary disease.
Cure for Diabetes: A proper diet, exercise and medicines prescribed by your doctor will definitely help control diabetes. In extreme situations however, pills and lifestyle changes fail to bring down the glucose levels and insulin has to be directly administered to the body through injection.
Best Diabetes Medicines: Your doctor will definitely prescribe medicines from any one of the following generic groups of medicines. They are:
• Acetohexamide
• Alogliptin
• Alogliptin and Metformin
• Alogliptin and Pioglitzazone
• Canaglifozin
• Chorpropamide
• Colesevelam