Can anyone give me any random facts on Type 1 diabetes?!
Question: I was diagnosed two years ago during the summer. I now feel comfortable enough to make an essay on it for class, but am having trouble finding any interesting facts on the subject.
Any information will be highly appreciated!
Answers: I was diagnosed two years ago during the summer. I now feel comfortable enough to make an essay on it for class, but am having trouble finding any interesting facts on the subject.
Any information will be highly appreciated!
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-statist...
I found a lot of good info on this site. If you've been researching the internet then you have probably seen this already, but the links have statistics and exact number figures for almost every question. :)
A good word of advice, eat good and you will live long and happy. I was born with type 1 and Im almost old now lol.
Here's an interesting fact too. Diabetics tend to have far less cavities than people without Diabetes.
It's an auto-immune disease, meaning the body attacked itself. With diabetes type 1 the body killed off the cells that make insulin (a chemical one needs to stay alive) and now the person has to take insulin.
In a person with type 1 diabetes the pancreas in unable to produce insulin. Insulin is a chemical that is used by the body to break down and use glucose (sugar). People need glucose for cellular respiration, the process that provides cells with energy.
Get short term disability insurance through your employer as soon as possible. It becomes more difficult to obtain as time goes on.
The limit on available short term disability insurance for diabetics may be a contributing cause of the amputations we face. If our doc tells us to take 3 weeks off to allow a sore on the foot to heal, but there is no income for those 3 weeks, the person has to keep working. When the person keeps working, the sore may become infected. As the worker continues to work to put food on the table, the sore becomes a tunneling ulcer, leading to death of tissue on the foot, and infection spreads. the only way to stop this infection is to remove it by amputation.
There are states that provide short term disability insurance to those who cannot get it. These are progressive states that can set an example of how to keep their diabetic population productive and off permanent disability they would otherwise collect for life. Just something to think about besides all the other statistics.
smart, type 1 X 39 years.
Nick jonas has type one diabtes and he uses and omnipod
There is a youtube video.