Type 1 diabetes, which is sometimes still referred to as ?Juvenile Diabetes? is the diabetes that some people are born with or develop very early on in life because of organ failure.
The pancreas, to be specific, fails to produce enough (or any) insulin to regulate the amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood, which then becomes either (normally) saturated with it or devoid of it.
Neither scenario is perfect, so the person with this problem, the diabetic, had to inject insulin each day and sometimes a number of times a day. The insulin they injected was taken from cows and pigs. Porcine insulin is still used to help diabetic dogs.
In 1977, it was discovered how to replicate human insulin, which was a lot more effective on human diabetics and this went a very long way to making life simpler for diabetics.
Many diabetics developed a tolerance or resistance to animal insulin, which made it less and less effectual. This problem almost completely disappeared with the new ?cloned? human insulin.
That was in the late Seventies and now we are in the second decade of the following millennium, more than thirty years later and the state of affairs has progressed a huge amount in that time.
These days, there are different forms of (human, cloned) insulin as well and it may take several tests, before your physician will know for certain which one is best for you.
For example, there is Humalog, which is at peak efficiency within the hour and Ultra Lente, which hits its peak after around 18 hours. There are three factors to take into account when considering synthetic insulin:
Onset: the time it takes for the insulin to get to the blood stream and begin working
Peaktime: the time after injection that the drug is working at its most efficient rate
Duration: the length of time that the insulin remains effective at regulating the blood-sugar level.
This means that a physician has a number of factors to take into account when working out which insulin is right for the patient. Price may also be a factor.
The most welcome modern invention is the insulin pump. The insulin pump is inserted under the skin. It constantly monitors the blood-sugar levels and squirts out insulin to compensate.
Moreover, these pumps can contain a number of forms of insulin so that it is always ready to give you the type of assistance you require.
The insulin pump is a lot more effective at judging a diabetic?s insulin requirements than a human, who often forgets or becomes complacent, and it monitors the bllod 24 hours a day not just once or two times. The majority of Type 1 diabetics now use an insulin pump to help them lead normal lives.
Type II diabetes normally stems from an insulin tolerance developed later on in life, often well past middle age. This can often be regulated with which tablets or other forms of medication. People with iron will power can frequently regulate Type II diabetes by diet and exercise.
Those for whom all the above fail, will almost certainly have to take insulin too and then they fall into the same category as Type I diabetics and a pump may help them too.
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Source: http://newhealthandfitness.org/2012/02/05/insulin-and-diabetes-2/
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