Diabetes Facts: Reviews of Best Doctors for Diabetes

When you eat, the carbohydrates start to break down into the simplest sugar glucose. This triggers an organ in your body known as the pancreas. As a result, they produce an insulin hormone that allows blood sugar to enter the cells. Sometimes pancreas either does not make enough insulin or does not use the insulin that it has made. This leads to high blood sugar levels in your body. Now the person who considered himself as a healthy one is not healthy anymore. It changes a healthy individual into the illness known as Diabetic Mellitus. Yes, the story of Diabetes doesn’t end but starts here. You start to develop symptoms as it starts damaging your organs and blood vessels. This increases the risk of getting heart, eye, and kidney diseases. It causes stroke and also damages your nerves.

Types of Diabetes:

Following are the different types of Diabetes.

• Pre- Diabetes – This is the type in which your blood sugar level becomes higher than normal. But not as high that considers you a diabetic patient.
• Type 1 Diabetes – Sometimes, the immune system starts damaging cells of the pancreas. As a result, they stop producing insulin or produce it in a small quantity. Among Diabetic patients, 1 in 20 people has type 1 Diabetes. They have to take artificially made insulin to survive.
• Type 2 Diabetes – This is the most common type of Diabetes. About 19 in 20 Diabetic patients have this type of Diabetes. In this type, your body does not use the insulin that the pancreas has made. It is not dependent on insulin. You can treat this by doing regulate exercise and taking healthy food. Dropping excessive fats from your body helps fight this type of Diabetes.
• Gestational Diabetes – This is a special type of Diabetes that happens in pregnancy.

The surprising thing is that it happens in those females who do not have a prior history of diabetes. It goes away as soon as the pregnancy ends. Women should take medicines to control it as they can get type 2 diabetes later in life. It is also controlled by exercise, a healthy diet and weight gain.

Risk Factors:

• Certain factors such as viruses and genetics may contribute to Diabetes
• Type 1 is usually diagnosed in Children
• The chances for developing type 2 Diabetics increases as you grow older
• If any one of your family members had this disease, the chances are that you will develop it too.
• Having excessive fats in your body also contributes to this disease.

Complications:

• It causes blindness, especially in working elderly
• It causes kidney failure and also damages your nervous system
• People with diabetes are at higher risk of getting heart diseases and stroke. It also increases your blood pressure.
• Many Diabetic patients have impaired sensation of feet and hands
• It also leads to surgical removal of your lower limb

Reviews of doctors for Diabetes:

• By Dr Abdul Basit – He is the General Secretary of the Diabetic Association of Pakistan. He says that 2,200 people die in Pakistan every year due to diseases caused by excessive sugar intake. The major cause of Diabetes and other diseases in Pakistan is energy drinks, juices and sodas.
• By Dr Nadeem Naeem – He is a consultant endocrinologist. According to him, the chances of developing type 2 disease in teenagers is increasing. Girls are more vulnerable to type 2 Diabetes than boys. It is because of an inactive lifestyle and unhealthy eating. He says that 20 out of 100 people in Pakistan have Diabetes. He says that fasting is good for your health as it fights obesity and Diabetes.
• By Dr Babar Saeed Khan – He is the Chief Executive Officer of EHAD Medical Centre. According to him, it is a life-threatening disease. And they are working on a project where Diabetic patients can get free screening and consultation by dialling a helpline.
• Dr Anam Dayem – He is the lead of telecommunication health at Ehad Medical Centre. According to him, people are unaware of Diabetes and how they can prevent it. So, creating awareness about this illness is the need of the hour. As more than 250 people are in Pakistan are dying due to Diabetes.
• Dr Samra Mazhar – She is the Deputy Director of the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination. According to her, by improving diagnosis and giving access to the children’s medicines, we can fight type 1 Diabetes.
• Dr Ibrar Ahmed – He is an endocrinologist who says that Type 2 Diabetes is prevalent in Pakistan. And more than 10 million Diabetic patients even do not know this. According to him, people at age 40, with a waist 36 inches or more and family history, should get checked for this disease. He adds that if anyone is diagnosed with Diabetes, he must change his lifestyle. He should adopt a healthy lifestyle to add more years to life.

Prevention:

Adopting a healthy lifestyle will help you prevent or delay the onset of type 2 Diabetes. Take healthy food and avoid intake of saturated foods and sugar. Do not smoke as tobacco makes you susceptible to heart diseases and Diabetes. Try to do exercise regularly. Doing exercise 30 minutes a day will help you prevent this serious disease.

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