Diabetes Mellitus

KNOW Diabetes Mellitusa.  
a.Understanding Diabetes

Diabetes Mellitus, or diabetes is a disease where high levels of glucose in the blood because the body can not release or use insulin properly. Insulin is a hormone released by the pancreas, is the main substance responsible for maintaining proper blood sugar levels. Diabetes is one chronic disease. This condition is caused by interference with the metabolism of carbohydrates (sugar) in the body. These metabolic disturbances caused by the disruption of hormonal function of food we eat will be exchanged for sugar in our bodies. Insulin will be used to bring blood sugar into cells in the channel, and will be used for fuel.


b. Two types of diabetes

There are two main types of diabetes:

 Type 1 - "Diabetes or Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus" (dependent on insulin)

o Usually applies to children and adolescents

o Usually not able to produce insulin

 Type 2 - "Diabetes or Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus" (not dependent on insulin)

o The most common type encountered, and more than 90% penghidap this type of diabetes is penghidap.

o  The people age and excessive weight.


c. Signs of Diabetes Disease

Your experience may vary the signs and symptoms. However, common symptoms experienced are:

• Thirst / hunger (excessive thirst)

• Tired

• Weight loss decreases

• blurred vision

• Muscle weakness

• Itching skin of patients with prolonged disease

• heal old wounds

• Diabetes is often

• Itching in the pubic portion

You may also menghidapi diabetes without any symptoms. Do not rely on symptoms to know you are penghidap diabetes. Run the test in clinical kesihatan close.


d. Who has a high risk for getting diabetes?

• Aged 35 years or older. The older the higher your risk for diabetes menghidapi

• Weight loss or excessive obesiti.Semakin your weight increases, the higher your risk of diabetes menghidap.

• Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).

• Family background who have diabetes

• History of diabetes in the last pregnancy.

• History of having a large baby (birth weight was 4.0 kg or more).

• High Blood Pressure

• Off-sedentari lifestyle

• Intake of factor-high fat diets and less fibrous food intake

• Phase-fat / high cholesterol.


e. Stages of Diabetes• hypoglycemia-phase is when blood sugar is low. You may experience headaches, feeling dizzy, dizzy, sweaty hands and ketar. You may pengsan or convulsions attacked if your sugars are too low

• Diabetic ketoacidosis is a serious situation if the stages of sugar is too high. (This usually mean you really lack of insulin). He also may be generated by pressure, an outbreak of bacteria, perfidy, use or conceded ubatan wad for wind Ahmar or heart disease. You will experience self-conscious and not drowsy.

• Hyperglycemia - is when the stage of high blood sugar. You will experience self-conscious and not drowsy


f. Due to the chronic diabetes

a. Eye

i. Cataracts, bleeding in the eye and cause blindness

b. Nerve

i. Loss of sense on the hands and feet where pesakit may have unwittingly perfidy. This may cause injury to the leg and gangrene

c. Brain

i. May experience stroke

d. Kidneys

i. failure of the kidneys

e. Heart

i. Heart disease


g. How to avoid the disease of diabetes?

• escorting food intake

o Take a balanced diet kerana excessive food intake will raise blood sugar stage

• Perform gymnastics fizikal

o Gymnastics can deduct the content of sugar in the blood and helps insulin work more memorable. Gymnastics can also help you reduce your weight.

• Medications

° If you type 1 diabetes, you will need insulin injections

o If you are type 2 diabetes, you may only require taking ubat hypoglycemia to lower blood sugar phase and sesetengah may require insulin injections.

• Prison in general:

o Guard skin

Bathing every day 

 Dry all parts with a perfect body

 Caring for the wound immediately

 Meet with your doctor if the wound is not healed after 2-3 days.

o Guard feet

 Washing the feet every day

 Drying all parts of the foot perfectly, especially between the toes cracks

 Check your feet daily for cuts, and skin discoloration.

 Cut the toenails straight

 Exchange stokin you every day

 Do not walk without footwear

 Always wear soft shoes and suitable for activities outside the home.

• Monitor yourself

o Provide oversight of glucose in the blood. own. Checking blood glucose in phase

• Guard teeth

• Frequent eye examination

• Keep away from hard liquor

• Stop smoking


H. Traditional ingredients of any variety can be used as alternative alleviate Diabetesa. Traditional medicine 1 Remedy:

       1 avocado seed grain powdered dried afterwards. 5 grams of powdered avocado brewed with 200 cc of water.
     Usage: Drink two times daily potion

b. Remedy Traditional Medicine 2:

      4 rambutan seeds dry roasted and then ground smooth. After that, rambutan seed powder boiled with water.
Usage: Drink while warm, consumption of two meals a day

c. Traditional herb medicine 3

       2-3 tablespoons brewed soy powder with enough water, then drink.
      Consumption: Consumption of two times a day

d. 4 Traditional Herb Medicine
         30 grams of corn silk and 100 grams of boiled kangkong stems with water sufficiently.
         Usage: Drink while warm, consumption of two meals a day

e. 5 Traditional Medicine Remedy

         100 grams of pumpkin machete / 100 grams of yellow squash and pumpkins bligo / tangkua pumpkin steamed and then eaten.
      Consumption: Consumption of two times a day