Causes of and Treatments For Diabetes

The usual treatment for type I diabetes is insulin  GlucoShield Review    injection. However, another treatment is to use steroid like drugs to block the autoimmune symptoms. While successful in many cases, however, steroids are not 100% effective. In addition, steroids have negative side effects in some people.

Another relatively new treatment for diabetes is insulin inhalation. In 2006 the FDA approved the first ever version of insulin that can be inhaled. Unfortunately, the company producing it shut down manufacturing it due to resistance in accepting it from doctors and their patients. Some researchers believe, however, that it's only a matter of time before an acceptable and viable alternative to injection hits the market.

Whether type 1 or type 2, there are some similarities in the symptoms of both type of diabetes. Common symptoms are frequent urination, constant thirst, weight loss, increase in hunger caused by the body being undernourished, and weakness - again due to the body being undernourished. Some diabetics also have blurred vision problems due to their eye lenses swelling as their blood glucose level rises. The swelled eye lenses are the cause of the blurred vision.



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