Many people are diagnosed each day with diabetes, either being type one or type one. This leaves many people wondering how they type diabetes. Diabetes was originally typed based on what age the person was when they were found to be experiencing symptoms. The younger juvenile patients were given insulin and generally labeled as having type one, the older adult patients were normally told how to manage a diet to keep their blood sugar low.
Today diabetes is typed based on how the body is producing insulin and using it. People who are diagnosed with type one diabetes usually have damaged beta cells (or icets) inside their pancreas. Their bodies’ cells are damaged so that they can no longer make insulin. Thus they are generally proscribed to take insulin by injection daily. Those people diagnosed with type two diabetes either have cells that don't produce enough insulin, but are still functioning or their bodies are rejecting the insulin they make. They are generally treated by either using a mix of medications and diet or occasionally require insulin like those people in type one. The original diagnosis wasn't too far off since most people who develop diabetes in their teens are type one and most people who develop it later in life are type two. |