Insulin Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

Because the body no longer makes insulin, insulin injections play a big role in diabetes care plan. How much insulin that need to take depends on the blood glucose level, or prediction of the level will be after a meal. Naturally, food also plays an important role in the diabetes management plan, because it contributes glucose to the blood. Usually, physical activity can lower the blood glucose level, decreasing the dose of insulin.

Most people with type 1 diabetes take insulin by injecting it with a needle and syringe or an insulin pen. The goal is to mimic normal insulin release as closely as possible. People without diabetes have a low level of insulin available in the blood most of the time. This is a background, or basal, level of insulin. After meals, a bolus of insulin is released, just enough to clear the glucose in the meal from the blood.

The type of insulin therapy should relate directly to the health and the lifestyle choices. Your chosen therapy may be as simple as keeping your blood glucose levels from shooting too high after meals or falling too low between meals. Or the therapy may be more challenging: trying to keep after-meal blood glucose levels as close as possible to those of someone without diabetes. Of course, healthy eating and regular exercise are a part of everyone’s healthy living plan.

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Common Type and Goals of Therapy for Diabetes

There are four types of diabetes therapy and its goals. Here is the short explanation.

• Meal plans therapy, goals of this therapy are, Manage weight, Manage blood glucose levels, Manage blood lipid levels, Reduce chances that you’ll need additional medications
• Exercise plans therapy, the goals are, maintain muscle tone and physical fitness, Lower blood glucose levels, Lower blood lipid levels, Increase sensitivity to medicationsc Aid meal planning in managing weight
• Oral diabetes medications : Reduce blood glucose levels by improving insulin release, reducing available glucose, and/or decreasing insulin resistance
• Insulin injections, the goals are, Make up for the body’s inability to produce insulin, Reduce blood glucose levels by improving insulin action and overcoming insulin resistance

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Things that Cause Allergies

An allergic reaction is caused by a foreign protein that is harmless to a non-allergic person. This is called an allergen. Almost any foreign protein can be an allergen to someone. Sometimes the reaction occurs after contact of the protein with the skin or after injection of the protein into the blood by a bite (e.g. a hamster) or a sting of an insect. Some drugs which are not proteins can also induce an allergic reaction. This is because these drugs (such as penicillin) can bind to body proteins, creating a complex that can induce an allergic reaction. The drug is not a real allergen, and is called a hapten ( a small molecule that binds to own proteins, being transformed into all allergen).

Allergens are usually divided into two groups:

1. Common inhalant allergens

       house dust mites, pollen pets, moulds
2. Common food allergens
       - egg, cow’s milk, soy, wheat (children below 3-years old)
       - peanuts, fish, shrimp (children above 3-years old)

However, the distinction is not really strict as both types can induce reactions by either the inhaled or oral route.

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About Allergy

Allergy is a genetic feature of the human body, not a disease, nor is it a diagnosis: people can be allergic or non-allergic. It is due to the ability of the human body to produce IgE against harmless substances, called allergens.

The term allergy is used to describe an inappropriate and harmful response of the immune system to a harmless foreign substance (usually a protein), that results in an immune response that can cause symptoms and disease in a predisposed person.

Allergy means that the body reacts in a particular way to the environment by producing a specific type of antibody. That specific antibody, called immunoglobulin E (IgE), induces a hypersensitivity reaction of the body through activating different cell types, including mast cells. Cell activation can lead to “inflammation,” which means that the body attains a state of alertness, and that in the different organs (such as the skin or the airways) swelling, redness and cell infiltration occurs. It is the inflammation that causes the symptoms. If the inflammation occurs in the skin, eczema will result. In the airways, inflammation can result in asthma (lower airways) or rhinitis (upper airways). Symptoms can also occur in other organs such as the intestine, eyes, or even the brain.

So what can you do about your allergies? Can you really get rid of those annoying, painful, and sometimes dangerous allergy symptoms?
The answer is yes.There are the traditional allergy treatment options. At the top of the list is to avoid the cause of your allergic reactions. However, that's often easier said than done.

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Diet as the cause of most children’s diseases

In theory, pediatric diseases may be due to either external, internal, or neither external nor internal causes. External causes refers to the six environmental excesses and pestilential qi. Internal causes refers to damage by the seven affects or emotions. And neither external nor internal causes refers to a miscellaneous collection of disease causes, such as diet, lifestyle, sex, trauma, poisoning, drowning, etc. Although pediatric diseases may be due to any of these three groups of disease causes, in children under six years of age, diet is, the leading cause of the commonly encountered pediatric complaints with external and internal causes aggravating the ill effects of a faulty diet.

In particular, children under the age of five or six are believed to have immature or weak digestion and it is this fact which accounts for most of the commonly encountered pediatric diseases, including colic, earache, cough, swollen glands, allergies, and pediatric asthma and eczema.

The fact that weak or immature digestion is the root of most common pediatric diseases has three main implications. First and very obviously, if digestion plays such a pivotal role in the health and well-being of infants and young children, then diet is extremely important both in terms of preventing disease as well as treating it. Secondly, treatment for most children’s disease should also pivot around regulating and strengthening digestion. And third, because the spleen and stomach automatically mature around the age of six or so, most common pediatric diseases are self-limiting. This means that children automatically tend to outgrow them. This is an important point which laboring parents should keep in mind when they have lost sleep for the third night in a row due to a coughing son or a feverish, crying daughter with an earache.

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Common Presenting Symptom of Hemorrhoidal Disease

Human has been blessed with an anus, it is fair to assume that he has also been doubly blessed with haemorrhoids. The word ‘‘haemorrhoid’’is derived from the Greek haema (blood)and rhoos (flowing), and it was probably Hippocrates(460 BC) who was the first to apply thename to the flow of blood from the veins of the anus.

Some estimate that up to 90% of patients may complain of hemorrhoidal symptoms at least once in their lifetime. The incidence of hemorrhoids increases with age, with males affected twice as often as females. Low residue diets seen typically in industrialized countries have been described as contributing to symptomatic hemorrhoids, presumably by causing smaller hard stools. This is clearly not the only etiology however, as those patients with diarrhea may also develop symptomatic hemorrhoids. Diets high in fiber may reduce the risk of hemorrhoid congestion. Although increased intra-abdominal pressure such as that seen in chronic pulmonary disease, prostatism, and pelvic tumors has been postulated to contribute to symptomatic hemorrhoids, the actual incidence is no greater in these patients than is found in the general population.

The most common presenting symptom is bleeding. It usually happens toward the end of defecation and is often bright red and painless. Prolapse and thrombosis may also occur. The patient may also complain of swelling and itching, but pain may also be present if there is thrombosis involving the external hemorrhoids

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Cinnamon - Herbal Treatment for diabetes

Since many years ago and now Cinnamon is one of the plants used to treat diabetes. Cinnamon is taken from the inner bark of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, cinnamon trees grow in mainland India, China, and Ceylon.

Cinnamon is known to have healing power comes from the oil contained within the skin. Cinnamon is used as an herbal tonic because of its antioxidant and better than six other plants that also are antioxidants such as anise, ginger, licorice, mint, nutmeg and vanilla.

Cinnamon is used in addition to lowering blood sugar, cinnamon can also be used to lower triglycerides and LDL cholesterol for people with type 2 diabetes. If you use cinnamon as herbal diabetes, you should still consult with your doctor. And one thing we remind use Cinnamomun Cassia species.

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Kidney Disease - Complications of Diabetes

Some potential diabetes complications are:

• Heart disease
• Kidney disease/Kidney transplantation
• Eye complications
• Diabetic Neuropathy and nerve damage

• Foot Complications
• Skin Complications
• Gastroparesis
• Depression

Kidney Function

The kidneys’ role is to remove waste products from the blood. Inside the kidneys are millions of tiny blood vessels (capillaries) that act as filters. Digestion of proteins creates waste products that need to be removed. Normally, as blood flows through the small capillaries, tiny molecules that consost of waste products flow through the holes with water to make urine for removal from the body. Useful substances, such as protein and red blood cells are too big to pass through the filter and they remain in the blood.

High levels of blood sugar from poorly controlled diabetes can make the kidneys work too hard, putting extra stress on them. After years of damage, the kidneys start to leak and useful protein leaks in the urine. Having a small amount of protein in the urine is known as microalbuminuria. When kidney disease is diagnosed early during microalbuminuria, there are several treatments that may keep the kidney disease from getting worse. However, when kidney disease is caught later, end-stage renal disease (ESRD) usually follows.

Here are Some Facts about Diabetes & Kidney Disease

• 10-21% of all people with diabetes have nephropathy (kidney disease).
• Approximately 43% of new cases of ESRD are attributed to diabetes.
• The risk of ESRD is 12 times higher in people with type 1 diabetes than in those with type 2.
• In the US, the incidence of ESRD in people with diabetes is more than 4 times higher in African Americans, 4 to 6 times higher in Mexican Americans and 6 times higher in Native Americans than the remaining population of diabetic patients.

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Avoid Diabetes - Treatment of Obesity

For more than two decades, there has been an exponential increase in the incidence of obesity around the world. This uncontrolled rise in obesity has been a concomitant increase in the diseases associated with obesity, such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. Not surprisingly, we have also seen an unprecedented increase in the number of diagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents.

Obesity is the result of an imbalance between food intake and disposal, and it is a consequence of the failure of one or more factors involved in any of the two processes. Once a primary cause of the failure is recognized, it is required that appropriate steps first be taken to try and correct the problem. A delicate balance between intake and expenditure of energy is required to maintain healthy weight. Perhaps for teleological reasons, the mechanisms that regulate energy homeostasis are biased in favor of net positive energy and are geared toward defense of weight loss rather than prevention of obesity. Spontaneous weight loss in the absence of disease is rare and the experience of progressive weight gain in free-living humans is common.

An elaborate network of central and peripheral neurohormonal signals has evolved to regulate feeding, one of the primal activities necessary for survival and selfpreservation. Current understanding indicates that energy homeostasis in health is predicated upon a balance between orexigenic and anorexigenic factors, both centrally and peripherally. Virtually all of the peripheral signals (e.g., insulin, PYY, leptin, CCK) are triggered by food ingestion and attenuated by fasting or starvation, indicating a response system that is tailored at satiety and meal termination. Ghrelin, the only peripheral signal activated preprandially, may be unique in its role as a rare peripheral signal for hunger and meal initiation.

The hypothalamus integrates diverse signals, including brain neurotransmitters, peripheral neurohumoral afferents, adipocyte-derived signals, gastrointestinal peptides, and other afferent inputs, to regulate energy homeostasis. The arcuate nucleus at the base of the hypothalamus expresses receptors for hormones and neuropeptides that regulate feeding. The paraventricular nucleus in the anterior hypothalamus, the major site of corticotropin releasing hormone and Thyroid Releasing Hormone secretion, receives rich projections from the ARC. Thus, the PVN integrates diverse paracrine and endocrine metabolic signals with classical neuroendocrine pathways mediated through the thyroid and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axes.

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Classification of diabetes

Early diagnosis of all infections or diseases are highly important in its cure as well as proper management. Anyone can surivive any disease when it is detected or diagnosed early to warrant timely and proper treatment.

The complications of diabetes are serious – heart disease and stroke, hypertension, blindness, kidney disease, amputation, complications in pregnancy and depression are just a few. But there are ways to fight diabetes.

The classification of diabetes includes four clinical classes:

● Type 1 diabetes (results from β-cell destruction, usually leading to absolute insulin deficiency)
● Type 2 diabetes (results from a progressive insulin secretory defect on the background of insulin resistance)
● Other specific types of diabetes due to other causes, e.g., genetic defects in β-cell function, genetic defects in insulin action, diseases of the exocrine pancreas (such as cystic fibrosis), and drugor chemical-induced (such as in the treatment of HIV/AIDS or after organ transplantation)
● Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) (diabetes diagnosed during pregnancy that is not clearly overt diabetes)

All people with diabetes have one thing in common. They have too much sugar, or glucose, in their blood. People with very high blood glucose levels share many similar symptoms:
- extreme thirst
- a frequent desire to urinate
- blurred vision
- a feeling of being tired most of the time for no apparent reason
People with type 2 diabetes may also experience leg pain that may indicate nerve damage or poor circulation. Many people with type 1 diabetes and some people with type 2 diabetes also find that they lose weight even though they are hungrier than usual and are eating more.

Know the signs of diabetes disease, you can fight it.

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Benmari - To Heal or To Recover

In the Java language "Benmari" has the meaning "to heal" or "to recover". In essence, all diseases can be treated and our efforts quite influential in determining the cure of disease. Therefore, on this web site will be presented in several articles regarding the disease and treatment. Article to be presented include some basic understanding about the disease and healing through drug therapy and healing through alternative means (alternative medication).

We hope all the articles presented on this site can be useful for those who need.

Enjoy reading.

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