Types of Diabetes

Diabetes is caused due to increase in the blood sugar level. Level of sugar increases when insulin is not synthesized or if the body is not giving response to insulin. According to the presence and effect of insulin, diabetes is divided in to three types type I, type II and gestational diabetes

Type I diabetes

This type of diabetes is also called as 'Juvenile diabetes'
Children and adolescents are affected by this type of diabetes
This type of diabetes is related to the autoimmune response
In autoimmune disease, immune system becomes more active
Generally, in defense mechanism WBCs attack the microbes and kill them.
In Type I diabetes, the WBCs attacks the cells of pancreas which perform the function of synthesizing insulin
In pancreas, beta cells are destroyed
Due to destruction of beta cells pancreas does not produce the insulin hormone
Insulin makes the tissue permeable for glucose absorption
In absence of insulin blood sugar or glucose level increases
In type I diabetes tissue cells are responsive and sensitive for the insulin , but insulin is not available in the blood
research is Still going on why the immune system attacks the beta cells
Environmental factors or genetic factors or viruses may be changed response of the immune system

Type II diabetes

This type of diabetes is very common. Ninety to ninety five percent of the people in the world suffer from this type of diabetes
There are different reasons of causing this type of diabetes like being overweight, old age, family history, rich carbohydrate content diet and type of work a person is doing
The patient shows symptoms like nausea, frequent thirst and urination, weight loss and slow healing of wounds
At the early stage, patient may not show any symptoms

Gestational Diabetes

Those women who have diabetes patient in family have more risk of diabetes
This type diabetes is developed during pregnancy period
Those women who suffer from this type of diabetes have twenty to thirty percent more chances of causing type II diabetes in ix to ten years
Sometimes the gestational diabetes can be cured completely after the child birth, if treatment is given
This type is caused due to the low secretion and response of the insulin
In some if patients proper treatment is not given, then it can be dangerous to fetus as well as to mother
It can create abnormalities in the development of the central nervous system of the baby, cardiac problems, improper formation of the muscle tissue
If, tissue of the mother is not giving positive response to the insulin, then insulin level increases in the blood
High level of insulin an cause respiratory distress and destruction of the red blood cells
This type of diabetes is more dangerous for the fetus, because it increases the possibility of diabetes in the child also