Intervention or New Diagnostic Tool for the Treatment of Diabetes in Adults or Children

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Pathophysiology
Diabetes is a lifelong or a long-term metabolism disorder. People who are diagnosed with Diabetes often have high blood sugar levels mainly because of the inadequate supply of insulin or a resistant by the victim’s body cells to respond appropriately to insulin. Diabetes is widespread and does not have a particular age group or gender. According to Shahjahan (2015), as of 2013, more than 300 million people were diagnosed with diabetes or diabetes mellitus as it is often referred in the field of medicine. Diabetic people are often polydipsic (have an abnormal thirst), polyuric (urinate frequently), and also polyphagic (desire to eat excessively).
There are three types of diabetes, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, and finally Gestational diabetes. For Type 1 diabetes, a patient’s body ultimately fails to produce insulin. This kind of diabetes is common in young adults i.e. people who are between ages 20 and 40. The preferred treatment is insulin injection, and one is often under this treatment for the rest of their life. On the other hand, for Type 2 diabetic patients, their bodies fail to produce enough insulin, or their body cells fail to react to the produced insulin. Unlike the Type 1 diabetes, patients with Type 2 diabetes are not subjected to insulin injections but are asked to practice a healthy lifestyle i.e. exercise and a healthy diet. However, Type 2 diabetes gradually gets worse, and eventually, patients are subjected to insulin injections. Gestational, unlike the other two, is unique to pregnant females. During pregnancy, women often have high levels of glucose in their blood, but some women’s bodies fail to produce enough insulin to transport and breakdown the glucose. Gestational Diabetes can only be diagnosed during pregnancy and women who fall victim to this disease are often advised to exercise frequently and have healthy diets. In this article, the emphasis is on Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and the difficulty involved in diagnosing and discriminating these two diseases.
Doctors often advise their patients to take care of their health. Diabetes does not manifest the same way as other diseases and one might have it but not realize it. For type 2 diabetes, factors such as weight and height, blood pressure, one’s eyes movement as well as response to light, skin condition matter a lot. When it comes to type 1 patients, the symptoms are polyphagia, polyuria, nausea, polydipsia, and blurred vision. After the medical practitioners suspect that a patient is diabetic, they often asses the above symptoms before they make their conclusions. These two types of diabetes are indeed confusing and at times some of their attributes might overlap in a patient.
According to Crownover and Nashelsky (2005), the "features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes may be present in the same patient." The statement above means that doctors often find it hard to distinguish between the two types of diabetes. Crownover and Nashelsky continued to explain that diagnostic studies that can aid doctors are also in limited supply, and the ones that exist are also narrow in content. It is important for med...