Bastrop diabetes treatment at Dr. Pompeyo C. Chavez clinic starts with identifying the type it is. Diabetes is a condition where your blood is concentrated with abnormal sugar levels. Insulin is liable to control blood sugar levels. At times blood sugar spikes, especially after meals. The pancreas releases insulin and normalizes blood glucose levels by increasing sugar uptake into body cells. In diabetic conditions, there is inadequate production of or absence of or non-response to insulin. 

Diabetes Types:

Type 1- It is assumed to be an autoimmune disorder. The immune system misguidedly attacks beta cells that produce insulin and destroys them causing permanent damage. 

Type 2- It begins with insulin resistance. Your body is unable to use insulin efficiently. It stimulates the pancreases to release more insulin and a time comes when the demand cannot be fulfilled. A decrease in insulin production causes high blood sugar. 

Gestational Diabetes

During pregnancy gestational diabetes occurs because insulin-blocking hormones are produced. It is a temporary phase that vanishes after childbirth. 

Type 1 diabetes symptoms appear suddenly during childhood or adolescence. It can even appear in adulthood. Type 2 is commonly identified after 45 years, so is known as adult-onset diabetes. Usually, the patient produces insulin but the body does not use it properly. Exercise and diet plans can help to keep this condition in control. However, some patients visiting the clinic at Bastrop are prescribed medicines to maintain blood sugar levels and suggested specific lifestyle changes. 

Symptoms:

• Some skin areas darken.
• Frequent urination.
• Increased thirst.
• Hunger.
• Bedwetting.
• Blurred vision.
• Accidental weight loss.
• Weakness and fatigue.
• Frequent infections.
• Slow wound healing.
• Yeast infection.
• Feet or toes numbness or tingling.

There is no specific way to identify whether you have diabetes, especially when there are hardly any visible or felt symptoms. Only a blood test helps to determine the blood glucose levels. 

What Risk Factors Can Cause Diabetes?

The risk factors for causing type-1 diabetes are still not well understood as in type-2 diabetes. For type 1 family history is the recognized root cause yet there can be other risk factors like pancreas disease or infection.

The risk factor associated with type-2 diabetes is multiple: 

• Obesity.
• High blood pressure.
• High cholesterol.
• Family history.
• Age.
• Sedentary lifestyle.
• Insulin resistance.
• Impaired glucose tolerance.
• Polycystic ovary syndrome.
• Gestational diabetes [during pregnancy].
• Secondary diabetes [other medical conditions like chronic pancreatitis].
• Hormonal disturbances [Cushing’s syndrome].

To maintain blood sugar levels, take medications under the supervision of your doctor at Bastrop clinic. It will help to avert serious complications like cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, or diabetic ketoacidosis. Many diabetics lead a full and long life with proper precautions and management!