Glucose/Insulin
If your insulin level falls too low overnight, your blood glucose rises. The reasons for the drop in insulin vary from person to person, but it most commonly occurs when your insulin secretion provide too little basal back up hence the glucose levels shoots up.
Last updated on 15 Mar 2023
When people eat food the food breaks down into sugars which is only stored with the help of insulin. if insulin is not produced adequately then it is stored in the blood stream rising a person's blood glucose levels.
Insulin resistance, also known as impaired insulin sensitivity, happens when cells in your muscles, fat and liver don't respond as they are immune to the cells.
Diabetes is detected by tests such as glucose fasting, glucose random and HBA1C.
It stands for plasma glucose post eating a meal.
Insulin is normally secreted by the beta cells (a type of islet cell) of the pancreas. The stimulus for insulin secretion is a high blood glucose.. Although there is always a low level of insulin secreted by the pancreas, the amount secreted into the blood increases as the blood glucose rises. Usually healthy body maintains it at 90mg/dl.
Glucagon counteracts and helps regulate your blood glucose levels. Glucagon also triggers your liver to convert stored glucose (glycogen) into a usable form and then release it into your bloodstream
A fasting blood sugar level of 99 mg/dL or lower is normal, 100 to 125 mg/dL indicates you have prediabetes, and 126 mg/dL or higher indicates you have diabetes.
The large gland behind the stomach called the pancreas controls blood sugar levels and produces insulin and glucagon and other hormones.
Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition where your blood glucose (sugar) level is too high because your body cannot make a hormone called insulin.
Apart from the blood glucose test if your child is experiencing extreme hunger, shakiness and sweats that means your child has juvenile diabetes and hypoglycemia (very low blood glucose levels).
Yes insufficient insulin production will increase blood glucose levels
Yes, people with type 1 diabetes can have high blood glucose levels.
Apart from regulating blood glucose levels it also helps store glucose in your liver, fat, and muscles. Finally, it regulates your body's metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
Yes, people may experience altered taste with type1 diabetes.
Regular high blood glucose levels can damage nerves, kidneys and eyes.
It means you fall under the category prediabetes
It is not curable because the pancrease do not produce the hormone insulin which can help in storing sugar
Yes, high amount of sugar spikes insulin production in the body
Insulin is a vital hormone that controls how cells store sugar as energy. Additionally, it absorbs energy as well as manages the breakdown of fats and proteins.
By checking your blood sugar one will take medicines timely which will treat type1 diabetes
It takes few years or upto 1 year to develop type1 diabetes
RBS, RBG, Random Blood Sugar
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