Diabetes, Chinese medicine called Diabetes disease. Back in BC, the Chinese medicine literature, on the urine of patients with documented Diabetes is sweet, and have thirst, polydipsia, polyuria, polyphagia and other clinical characteristics, patients are frequently post-fatigue, weight loss, therefore called "Diabetes "and raised over nutrition and obesity and diabetes are closely related. However, the ancient understanding of the nature of the disease still has not a small gap, and this situation only until the 19th century, significant progress, in 1869 a German doctor found in the pancreas of human existence "islet" and can secrete insulin, the diabetes Modern research started. The other two German doctors in 1889, further evidence of the relationship between the pancreas and diabetes, doctors in Canada in 1921, Banting, who succeeded the first time, extracted from animal pancreas, insulin, thus many young lives have been saved with diabetes. Doctors Banting received the Nobel Prize, and his birthday - November 14 by the United Nations as World Diabetes Day.
The cause of diabetes is still not very clear, only to find that a number of diabetes-related factors. It is generally believed that diabetes is genetic factors and environmental factors (including excess calorie intake, lack of activity, obesity, mental stress too much, etc.) working together, due to a lack of insulin secretion and (or) insulin resistance caused by sugar , protein and lipid metabolic disorder a chronic, lifelong disease. Diabetes is usually divided into type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes and other special types of diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is mainly due to immune factors have led to serious destruction of islet �-cell, so that absolute lack of insulin secretion; 2 diabetes is mainly relatively inadequate insulin secretion, reducing the body's insulin sensitivity (ie insulin resistance)-induced. The typical symptoms of diabetes as "more than three a little", that is, polydipsia, polyuria, polyphagia and weight loss, and fatigue associated with weakness. If the condition is not well controlled, the further development of the body caused by a variety of serious acute and chronic complications. There are acute complications of diabetic ketoacidosis, non-ketotic hyperosmolar coma, lactic acidosis and so on. With the extension of duration, metabolic disorders can also cause eye, kidney, nerves, blood vessels and heart and other organs of chronic damage, and eventually took place blind, uremia, lower limb gangrene, neuropathy, severe infection, stroke or myocardial infarction a serious threat to health, these complications are caused by patients with chronic disability, major cause of death.
Although scientists and doctors have always been committed to diabetes research, but has yet to find a method to tackle diabetes. Got diabetes, it means to be accompanied with life. For the diabetes treatment goals is to make the disease a long period of ideal or good control. Diabetes treatment is comprehensive, is a systematic project, the current clinical treatment of diabetes there are five recognized methods, known as "five carriages" - diabetes education, diet therapy, exercise therapy, drug therapy and disease monitoring.
Diabetes education refers to study in patients with diabetes prevention knowledge, only mastered the relevant knowledge, they can better meet the doctor for treatment, in order to become a master of controlling diabetes. Diet therapy and exercise therapy is the basis for the treatment of diabetes, on this basis, a reasonable use of drug therapy can effectively control blood glucose and a series of indicators. At the same time should also attach importance to disease surveillance, in particular, blood glucose self-monitoring, periodic inspection of the indicators, understand the disease and guide treatment.
Long-term practice that the "five horse-drawn vehicles" is the magic weapon against diabetes, the five, only five horses and riding Qi trend in order to achieve full control of diabetes, and ultimately achieving longevity and enjoy the good life goals.
