Is diabetes really a non-curable disease?
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Diabetes is really a non-curable disease.  There are many 'tests' and hopeful research being done at this point.  The cure is out there...someplace.  My daughter will tell you that it is in a strange lab somewhere...she was diagnosed when she was two.  There have be SOME successful transplants in adult patients...but they are on high doses of anti-rejection drugs at this point for the rest of their lives.  This would not work for children.  Their immune systems would not be able to handle this.  \nIt can be a sucky disease, but it is a lifestyle, not a disease....
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Diabetes is not a disease . It is disorder due to deficiency in insulin production. So there is no cure for it. You have to control it properly by diet, exercise, avoiding stress both physical and mental and reducing weight if you are over weight.  By controling you can live a normal life  and as many years as others live.
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If you have Type 1 diabetes you can not get rid of it.  You do need to work with your doctor to establish a routine to be as healthy as possible.\n\nIf you are Type 2 you may be able to control your diabetes with exercise, a good nutrition plan, and monitoring.  It is possible to reduce your need for oral medication.\n\nI have been a type 1 for 20 years.  It can be handled but it is something that must be paid attention to.
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diabetes can be cured through pancreatic islet transplant or whole pancreas transplant. Diabetis is a condition where the body's alpha pancreatic islet cells fail to produce insulin or produce insulin that is inable to allow glucose to enter the cells and be metabolized. What i just described is Insulin Dependent Diabetis Mellitus or Type I diabetes Type II or Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus is caused by the body producing inadequate amounts of insulin or the body lack of sensitivity to insulin and can be treated with diet and exercise or injections of insulin or with oral medication.
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Yes. Even if you are at a high risk for diabetes (due to your genetics), you can lower your chances by eating healthy, exercising regularly, and monitoring your lab work (cholesterol, triglycerides, blood glucose, etc.). Work with your doctor / healthcare team to come up with a prevention plan. \n\nBe aware though that diabetes is a highly heriditary condition. While these things can / will lower your risks for development of the disease, you may still get diabetes. None of these are guranteed to stop the onset of diabetes. \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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It is possible to live as long as someone who has diabetes. Researchers are on the brink of getting it to that point. The medical community announced there was a new weapon in the fight against AIDS. This new weapon was found in pregnant women. Many women have died from AIDS who were pregnant or had once been pregnant. The new weapon found in pregnant women is lysozyme. In 1999 the announcement was made on national television. There isn't any hurry on the part of medical researchers to help people.\n  Lysozyme works. Peppermint oil lozenges when combined with the enzymes in saliva ( particularly lysozyme ) form a powerful weapon against the virus. Any top AIDS researcher in the world will be able to verify and explain how peppermint oil lozenges will work against the AIDS virus. It can be a potent yet cheap alternative to keep people alive even in third world countries.
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Diabetes is not a genetic condition, so no.  However, a predisposition to diabetes can be genetic, so it's likely the clone will also get diabetes.\n\nCloning replicates DNA, nothing more.
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Yes, it's called Double Diabetes and it's getting more common.  The diagnosis will remain type 1 however, but oral meds may need to be added.
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Diabetes is the inability of a body to either produced insulin, produce enough insulin, or to use the insulin it does produce efficiently.  It cause glucose (blood sugar) to rise to dangerous levels in the blood stream.\n\nThere are different types of the disease with different causes.\n\nType 1 is an autoimmune disease where the body’s immune system destroys the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.  It most often occurs in children and young adults, but can occur at any age.  The only treatment is for the patient to take insulin, either with daily injections or the use of a pump worn that supplies insulin.  There is no cure.  Without insulin therapy, a Type 1 diabetic will die.\n\nType 2 is genetically linked (if one parent has it, you have a 50-50 chance of getting it; if both do, you are probably going to develop it as well).  It often occurs in middle to old age, but can occur in younger people, especially if they are overweight.  In some people, losing weight can make the symptoms go away with no further treatment.  Others control it with diet.  Still others take oral medications that cause the body to be more sensitive to the insulin that they produce.  Some Type 2 diabetics will need to take insulin and their disease will be treated in much the way that Type 1 diabetes is treated.  Treatment varies from patient to patient, depending on how severe the symptoms are.\n\nGestational diabetes is Type 2 diabetes that occurs while a woman is pregnant, and usually subsides once she has delivered.  A woman who develops Gestational diabetes is likely to develop Type 2 diabetes when she is older.
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I'm with the other guys on this one, but not taking care of diabetes can also lead to losing limbs. I know people who have lost legs because they haven't looked after their diabetes properly
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Diabetes and heart disease are definitely connected.Diabetes affects almost all of the systems in your body.People with diabetes are at a far greater risk of suffering heart attacks,strokes etc...Some scientists believe now that the "free" sugar that is not brought into the cells,but courses through your vascular system aids in the fatty deposits that block your arteries by encouraging that fat to stick to the blood vessels.That is why diabetes should be watched closely and kept under control.
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No.\n\nType 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease, like some kinds of arthritis or lupus. It requires an inherited susceptibility (traced to certain kinds of HLA antigens), and a trigger. the trigger is usually infection from any of several things, commonly viruses. German measles is one, as are several members of the Coxsackie virus family. During such an infection, the immune system 'learns' to attack cells with certain surface markers, and beta cells have such markers. At least that's the current best idea of what ususally happens. The beta cells get killed (having the wrong markers) and that ends your internal insulin production. Food has nothing to do with it. \n\nType 2 diabetes is more complex. It is strongly inherited, but is also influenced by environment. Those carrying more weight than they should, and the elderly, are more likely to get it. Hence its older names: obesity-related and adult-onset diabetes. It has recently been discovered that fat tissue, especially fat tissue around the abdominal organs (but not on thighs or hips or chins or ...) produce several hormones, just like the endocrine glands. Some of those hormones affect other cells, and one of them makes them  more resistant to insulin. That is, when insulin is present, it's harder for those cells to take up glucose from the blood. This is insulin resistance and it's at the heart of Type 2 diabetes. Some can be treated with diet, exercise, and supervision; some require all that and oral medications as well; some require insulin, perhaps in addition to an oral medication. \n\nObiously, it's not only sugar which can cause fat like this. Overeating anything, perhaps especially fats, can cause weight gain. Ther's nothing special about weight gain from sugar as opposed to weight from the fat in meats. \nAnyone who eats enough to become a little thick here and there has increased their chance of getting Type 2. Lack of exercise seems to be significant as well. So, whether it's sugar or anything else that you eat too much of, you can increase your chance of getting Type 2. \n\nThe only direct effect of sugar is a speculative one. In the extreme pure sugar (or sugar in solution, like a soft drink) will go into the bloodstream very quickly. This will cause a rapid rise in blood glucose level, and perhaps to a high spike in that level. There is some speculation that too many cases of such rapid spikes causes damage to beta cells in the pancreas or to other cells, in such a way as to increase the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes. Thus far, there only suspicions along this line as an experimental study to test this prediction would be difficult to design and carry out. Not to mention expensive. No drug company will finance such a study as there is no prospect of a salable drug resulting. \n\nIt's probably best to avoid 'empty calories' in any case. The classic examples are soft drinks which are basically nothing but flavored sugar water. Check the nutrient label the next time you see a soft drink bottle.
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It really depends. There are several types of diabetes. including type 1 ( body fails to produce insulin) and type 2 (body fails to properly use insulin). I think that if you have type 1 diabetes, you need insulin injection or therapy. I am not sure though if its is curable. Type 2 diabetes can be prevented. Proper diet and exercise will help you prevent the disease. If you already have type 2 diabetes, there are some medications that could help lower your blood sugar. For a more in-depth explanation of the disease. Visit the website below.
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No diabetes can not be prevented, but you can watch what you eat to stop yourself from getting it too fast. I'm talking about the genetic diabetes. That's what I have. The other type is the kind that you get from being to heavy or just old. You can stop yourself fro  getting the nongenetic type, but not the genetic type.
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Diabetes (diabetes mellitus) happens when the body can't use glucose for energy because it doesn’t have any or enough insulin. Insulin controls how much glucose (which is the energy source we get from food) can pass from the blood into body’s cells.\n\nAlert!\nIf a person who is known to have diabetes becomes confused, obviously unwell, drowsy or unconscious, that person needs urgent help. She may have very low levels of blood glucose (hypoglycaemia – 'hi-po-gly-see-mia') or ketoacidosis ('ket-o-acid-o-sis'). See the topic 'Diabetes – managing diabetes in childhood' for more information about what to do for hypoglycaemia and ketoacidosis.\n\n\nWhat is diabetes?\nThere are two main types of diabetes mellitus.\n\nDiabetes mellitus type 1 (sometimes called ‘juvenile onset diabetes’ or ‘insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM)) usually starts in childhood or early adult life, most commonly before teenage years. It is due to damage to b-cells in the pancreas, so that they do not make the hormone insulin.\nDiabetes mellitus type 2 (also called ‘mature onset diabetes’ or non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) usually starts later in life, usually when the person is over 40 years old. However, it is occurring more often now in much younger people, especially people who are very overweight. Although people with type 2 diabetes usually make some insulin, it is not enough, or it does not work well.\nThere is also gestational diabetes which happens during pregnancy, and diabetes insipidus, a quite different sort of problem.\n\nThis topic focuses only on type 1 diabetes mellitus.\n\nWith type 1 diabetes, young people have no insulin, so they need:\n\nto get insulin by injection at least once, and often several times each day \nto be careful about what they eat, how much they exercise, drinking alcohol and using tobacco and drugs \nto be in control of their diabetes \nto understand that people with diabetes are able to do pretty much everything that other people are able to do. \n\nUnderstanding diabetes\nOur topic on the Parenting and Child Health section of this site called 'Diabetes in childhood' contains a lot of information about the causes of diabetes and its effects and complications.\n\nThere is a lot of research going on world wide to find a cure for diabetes, including seeking ways of transplanting insulin-making tissue – but there is no cure for diabetes yet.\n\n\nManaging diabetes\nEvery person who has type 1 diabetes should have their own diabetes management plan and a team of workers they can seek information and help from.\n\nSomeone with type 1 diabetes will need to regularly monitor their:\n\nblood glucose level \ndiet \ninsulin \nexercise.\nAt the moment, insulin will need to be injected every day for the rest of their life. The topic 'Diabetes - managing diabetes in childhood' goes into detail about diet, insulin, monitoring blood glucose, exercise and most of the questions that are usually asked. \n\n\nTaking control\nIf you have had diabetes for a while, you and your parents may be very used to managing your diabetes. If it has only recently been diagnosed, they may be very anxious and want to help more than you feel is needed (parents are like that!)\n\nAs you get older, your diabetes management team and your parents will help you to take control of managing your diabetes – you might start to see health workers by yourself, and gradually take over managing your own record-keeping.\n\nAll doctors, dietitians and others who work with people with diabetes know that people are not perfect. If you do 'go out of control' it is best to 'own up' and work out some plans for next time, rather than pretending that every thing is OK.\n\nSome things that you will probably have to manage more strictly than other young people include: \n\nmeal times (missing meals can lead to problems) \nsleep-ins (you may have to wake up early to eat, or have your
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You CAN'T cure diabetes, Type I or Type II. The only thing you can do is lose weight and follow a proper diet in hopes of not progressing into an insulin dependent Type II DM.
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you are in college?  \n\nyou'd have better luck attracting answers if you spelled it out correctly and expanded your question with comments about what it is you'd like to know about the lifestyle of diabetes patients (if that is what you are asking about) -- be more specific.