Diabetes Mellitus

Disease Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a degenerative disease that requires proper handling and serious. Because if not, the impact of the disease will bring a variety of other serious complications, such as heart disease, stroke, erectile dysfunction, kidney failure, and damage to the nervous system.

According to data of World Health Organization (WHO), Indonesia ranks sixth in the world as a country with the number of patients was Diabetes Mellitus most after India, China, Soviet Union, Japan, and Brazil. Recorded in 1995, the number of diabetics in Indonesia reaches 5 million with an increase of 230,000 diabetic patients per year, so that in the year 2005 is expected to reach 12 million people.

Diabetes Mellitus itself is defined as a disease in which the patient’s body can not automatically control the level of sugar (glucose) in blood. Diabetics can not produce insulin in sufficient quantities, so that an excess of sugar in the body. Chronic excess sugar in the blood (hyperglycemia) is a poison for the body.

Type 2 Diabetes :
1. Diabetes Type I (IDDM / insulin dependent)
Someone said to type I diabetes, if the body needs insulin supply from the outside. This is because the beta cells of Langerhans islands have been damaged, so the pancreas stops producing insulin. Beta cell damage can occur from childhood or as adults.

2. Diabetes Type II (NIDDM / does not depend on insulin)
Type II diabetes occurs when pancreatic insulin production is not enough fat cells and muscles of the body become resistant to insulin, resulting in disruption of sugar delivery to body cells. Usually people affected by this type of diabetes are adults.

Symptoms - Symptoms of Diabetes
Symptoms of Type I diabetes appears suddenly at the age of children (under 20 years), as a result of genetic abnormalities, so the body can not produce insulin properly. The symptoms of diabetes type I, among others:
• Weight loss
• Fatigue
• Blurred vision
• Frequent urination
• Continuous hungry and thirsty
• Increased blood sugar levels and urine

While the symptoms of type II diabetes appears gradually until it becomes clear interference, and at the same stage as the beginning symptoms of diabetes type I.


Cause Diabetes
The main cause of diabetes in the era of globalization is the existence of lifestyle changes (diet is not balanced, less physical activity). In addition, the stress, genetic disorders, the age of an increasingly elderly may also be one factor causing diabetes.

Diabetes Prevention
It can be prevented by changing a balanced diet (avoiding foods that contain lots of protein, fat, sugar, and salt), physical activity at least 30 minutes every day (swimming, cycling, jogging, brisk walking), and glucose levels checked diligently urine every year.

How to Overcome Diabetes
If it’s positive diabetes, you should consult with your doctor and follow doctor’s recommendations with discipline. In addition, the need to diet, because diet is the first step of an effort to control diabetes. However, we recommend as a diet, should be accompanied by regular exercise. And lastly, a blood test to measure sugar levels Diabetes, which is a disturbance of blood sugar disorders since the destruction of pancreatic beta cells, so that needs to be controlled carefully.