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Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the person capacity to make insulin. Insulin is a hormone that permits blood sugar or glucose to enter body cells. Because of diabetes much of the glucose remains in the blood of a person. The high blood sugar levels are harmful for your eyes, nerves, kidneys, heart and blood vessels.

The common symptoms of diabetes are too much urination or polyuria, excessive thirst or polydipsia, loss of weight, excessive starvation, nausea, extreme tiredness, infections, irritability and tiredness.

There are three major types of diabetes: Type 1 diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, Type 2 diabetes or non-insulin dependent diabetes and gestational diabetes mellitus.

In type-1, the beta cells that make insulin are damaged and various environmental factors like eating habits or viruses results in causing type-1 Diabetes. People with type-1 diabetes take insulin injections and follows a careful diet. Type 2 is most common type of diabetes that affects nearly 75-85% of people. The main cause behind such type of diabetes is heredity and other factors include obesity, high blood pressure and lack of proper diet. It can be controlled with the help of regular exercise, taking proper diet. The third type is GDM and its main causes are heredity, increased maternal age, fatness etc. It increases the chances for mother to develop permanent diabetes and sometimes the child also develops diabetes in later age.

Diabetes is a deadly disease, which has no cure but you can control your diabetes. There are many different ways by which you can control your diabetic levels. You will maintain proper level of your blood glucose with regular exercise, regular check-ups from your doctor and taking proper diet. Sometime oral medications like sulfonylurea drugs, meglitinides and thiazolidinediones also help type-2 diabetes patient to put control over problem. But these medications are not a cure for all type of diabetes; you have to follow other treatments also.

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