Type One Diabetes

Almost everyone knows that diabetes is a disease involving high levels of sugar or glucose in the blood stream. Diabetes is categorized as type one diabetes and type two diabetes depending on the manner in which insulin is functioning. What is type 1 diabetes? If there absolute no insulin production by the pancreas due to an autoimmune disorder wherein the patient’s own immune system destroys the beta cells of the pancreas then the diabetes is referred to as type one diabetes. Also known by the name of juvenile diabetes, the exact cause for type one diabetes is not yet confirmed. It is thought that the person having type one diabetes has acquired it genetically, though the genes do not manifest themselves unless triggered off by some cause such as a viral attack. Since there is no insulin production in type one diabetes, providing the same to the patient either in injection form or insulin pump form every single day is essential. Diabetes testing at regular intervals is absolutely necessary in the case of patients showing symptoms of prediabetes or confirmed with diabetes. Even otherwise person who have crossed the age.