DIABETES MELITUS

Diabetes or Diabetes Mellitus (DM), in Greek means translucent or fountain, and from Latin has a sense of sweetness, while in Indonesia DM is better known as diabetes, in which the level of glucose (simple sugar) in the blood to be High because the body can not produce or secrete enough insulin. And from some tests directly, in general urine people with diabetes is sweet because it contains a lot of sugar.

Every food we eat will be converted into energy by the body. In the stomach and intestines, food is broken down into several basic elements, including one type of sugar, namely glucose. If there is sugar, the pancreas produces insulin, which helps to drain the sugar into the cells of the body. Then, the sugar can be absorbed well in the body and burned to produce energy.

When a person has diabetes the person's pancreas can not produce enough insulin to absorb sugars from food. That's what causes the sugar in the blood to be high due to the pile of sugar from foods that can not be absorbed properly and burned into energy. Another cause is a defective insulin or the body can not utilize insulin properly.

Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas, an organ next to the stomach. This hormone attaches itself to the receptors on the cell wall. Insulin is responsible for opening up receptors on the cell wall so that glucose enters the cell. Then the cells convert glucose into energy that the body needs to perform the activity. In other words, insulin helps to channel sugar into the cells to be converted into energy. If the amount of insulin is not enough, then there is accumulation of sugar in the blood causing diabetes.

The cause of diabetes or diabetes depends on the type of diabetes suffered. There are 2 types of diabetes that common and suffered by many people namely type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes.

The difference is if type 1 diabetes because of pancreas organ function problems can not produce insulin, whereas type 2 diabetes is due to a lack of insulin problem, not because the pancreas can not function properly. To see more details, please continue reading.