2. Diabetes By Helen

3. What Is Diabetes? Diabetes is a disease that affects the pancreas. People with diabetes make no or not enough insulin

4. Why? Their insulin cells have been destroyed How? Doctors aren’t sure but they think it happens when your body tries to fight a virus.

5. Is that the only way to get diabetes? Diabetes is mostly hereditary

6. Are There More Than 1 Type? Yes Type1- Insulin dependant (worse one) When the body doesn’t make insulin. Type2- Insulin independent When your body makes insulin, but can’t use it properly or doesn’t make enough.

7. What is insulin? Hormone made by pancreas. It works like a key to open the red blood cells so glucose can enter. If there’s no insulin the cells can’t get fed

8. What happens to you when you’re a diabetic? You have to test your blood sugar daily Your blood sugar should fall between 70-120 mg/dl You regulate your daily insulin shots according to your blood sugar Urine tests to detect problems during doctor visits Glycosylated Hemoglobin tests every few months

9. Glyscosylated Hemoglobin…HUH? Every few months diabetics get tested to see how much Glyscosylated Hemoglobin is in their red blood cells. Hemoglobin carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body and carbon dioxide back to the lungs BUT! when glucose touches hemoglobin it begins to change a little. Changed hemoglobin is called A1 or A2.

10. Complications? Hypoglycemia- Too little glucose or too much insulin Hyperglycemia- Too much glucose or not enough insulin

11. Symptoms Hypoglycemia- shaking, fast heartbeat, hunger, weakness, sweating (to treat take in sugar rapidly) Hyperglycemia- extreme thirst, dry skin, blurry vision, frequent peeing, feeling tired (to treat drink a lot of water)

12. Prognosis If you watch your diet and stay at your target blood sugar rate you should be okay. BUT! Diabetes can make you more suseptable to other diseases

13. “Fun” Facts Over 12,000 children get diabetes every year 1/15 diabetics has type A

14. BIBLIOGRAPHY Kids Learn About Diabetes. Internet WWW page, at URL http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/6935.what_is.html Diabetes.Com. Internet WWW page, at URL http://www.diabetes.com CDC’s Diabetes and Public Heath Source. Internet WWW page, at URL http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/