What is the difference between Type I and Type II Diabetes?
My grandmother was recently diagnosed Type II diabetes.
I don’t understand the difference, could someone dumb it down for me? The doctor didn’t really answer our questions thoroughly.
My grandmother was recently diagnosed Type II diabetes.
I don’t understand the difference, could someone dumb it down for me? The doctor didn’t really answer our questions thoroughly.
Type 1: Results from the body’s failure to produce insulin. It is estimated that 5-10% of Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 1 diabetes. Presently almost all persons with type 1 diabetes must take insulin injections.
Type 2: Results from Insulin resistance, a condition in which cells fail to use insulin properly, sometimes combined with relative insulin deficiency. Most Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. Many people destined to develop type 2 diabetes spend many years in a state of Pre-diabetes: Termed “America’s largest healthcare epidemic,”[4]:10-11, a condition that occurs when a person’s blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. As of 2009 there are 57 million Americans who have pre-diabetes.[5]
One you are born with….two is due to lifestyle generally – usually poor diet and lack of excercise.
With type I the person has to take insulin.
Type II is non-insulin dependent.
This can be controlled by a low carb diet and exercise.
Also, make sure your grandmother checks herself for open wounds, as with diabetes, the wounds can get really bad.
Ive seen hundreds of my patients have to get body parts amputated from this.
Please tell her to be careful
Type 1 is an auto immune disease. Basically, for some unknown reason, your body decides that your pancreas is evil and kills it. Completely and utterly dead.
Type 1′s are on insulin injections, or a pump, for the rest of our lives, bnecause we make absolutely no insulin of our own.
Type 2 can be managed with diet, exercise, medications or insulin.
Type 2′s, for a lot of reasons, cant make, or use, enough insulin.
Maybe their pancreas isn’t making enough, or they might not be able to use the stuff they do make.
Type 2′s can be on insulin as well. Being on insulin doesn’t make you a Type 1.
Your grandmother might be put on drugs to make her pancreas work better, or to help her use the insulin she does make.
Either way, eating less carbs, loosing weight etc are all ways to help her need less insulin.