Tag: Diabetes Ketoacidosis

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Ketoacidosis, a critical acute complication of diabetes

Ketoacidosis is a serious acute complication of diabetes, which can lead to coma and even death. When cells in the body lack sufficient glucose to supply energy, the body will supply energy by burning fat, and ketone body is the metabolite of fat burning. In diabetic patients, the body is not sensitive to insulin or lacks insulin, which prevents glucose from entering cells to supply energy with the help of insulin. Although the blood sugar of patients is very high, the cells are still in a state of energy shortage. The body has to burn fat to supply energy, while at the same time, it produces a large number of ketones. When a large number of ketones accumulate in the Read More …

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Is there any difference between type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes in what?

Patients often ask: How do I know whether I have type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes? What’s the difference? Generally speaking, the causes, onset age, laboratory examination, treatment and complications of the two different types of diabetes are slightly different. Today Dr. Clove will briefly introduce the differences between the two types and some common misunderstandings. Type 1 diabetes mellitus Type 1 diabetes was previously called [juvenile diabetes] or [insulin-dependent diabetes]. As the name implies, the main characteristic of type 1 is that the onset age is relatively young and the treatment needs to rely on insulin. After type 1 diabetes, the body no longer produces insulin or does not produce enough insulin due to the damage to the Read More …

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How to preserve insulin? How do you take it on a trip?

If your family has diabetes, or if you are a diabetes, do you care enough about the correct use of insulin? Now let’s accept the challenge. Please listen to the question: The insulin pen equipped with insulin refill should be kept after opening: Do you think it is easy to answer before you see the question? Do you take it for granted that you can put it in the refrigerator? But how many degrees should it be? Is there any difference before and after opening? How? 1. Before opening: As require in that instructions, Unopened insulin is generally required to be kept in refrigerators at 2 ℃ ~ 8 ℃, Until the expiry date, And placed away from the freezer Read More …

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Five manifestations of diabetes deterioration, see if you have them?

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease that can cause disability and death. How the disease progress is a matter of great concern to sugar lovers. However, sugar lovers often make a mistake: only the blood sugar level is used as the criterion for evaluating the disease condition. In fact, the main harm of diabetes is not hyperglycemia itself, but various acute and chronic complications caused by hyperglycemia. Therefore, in addition to blood sugar, the assessment of sugar friends’ illness should also consider the risk factors leading to disease development and various acute and chronic complications. Diabetes doctors have summarized the manifestations of 5 kinds of deterioration of the disease. Let’s take a look at them as soon as possible Read More …