This disease is originally known as Diabetes Mellitus, the word diabetes, from the Greek for excessive urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and mellitus, from the Latin for honey-diabetic urine is filled with sugar and is sweet. Diabetes Specialists, Doctors, and medical books use the term diabetes mellitus, but informally, its just called diabetes mellitus. Diabetes is a disease, which makes it difficult or impossible for a persons body to properly use glucose, a form of sugar. During digestion food is broken down into glucose which is caused by the body to create energy. This process is called metabolism. A person with Diabetes cannot convert this glucose into useable energy because their body either cannot produce enough insulin or cannot use the insulin it produces. This results in glucose building up in the bloodstream. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas, a gland near the stomach. Insulin regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates by controlling the entry of glucose into the cells of the body. Without insulin, glucose cannot be transported into the cells to be used for energy. There currently is no cure for diabetes but it can be controlled. There are three types of diabetes. 1) Type 1, IDDM, Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus 2) Type 2, NIDDM, or Non Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus 3) T0003 or Gestational Diabetes. These types are all different but anyone with diabetes has one thing in common: little or no ability to move sugar-or glucose-out of their blood into their cells, where it is the bodys primary fuel. There are different causes of Diabetes. Diabetes is caused by a lack of the hormone, insulin. Insulin maintains normal amounts of sugar in the blood. The hormonal changes in pregnancy increases your blood sugar levels and most pregnant women produce extra insulin to cope with it. Gestational diabetes is the term used for diabetes, which appears for the first time in pregnancy. It occu...
